castling

I hope in the next version, castling the king is added.

It's like getting offended at a chess player for castling.

Chess rules can be laid out in a few thousand words, including castling. Right off the bat, you need to pick a set of words that are allowed.

I'd guess en passant is more surprising to neophytes than castling

You might go 50 games before you see any need for En Passant, but castling is crucial in any real play.

The idea is also very elegant, if you can look past chess rules quirks like en passant and castling.

Yeah, I was actually going to use en passant, but I figured more people would understand the comment if I used castling.

Gate's first mistake wasn't castling, but taking Carlsen's pawn without having a sufficient a sufficient buildup for the exchange. He lost the center of the board as a result.

Some of the weird-but-essential moves such as castling and en passant will not be apparent to you even after hours of playing like that.

FYI castling is standard in lots of bughouse openings and good in general, early f-pawn sacs are bad. This is at higher levels of play though. If you don't know what you're doing then you're better off with a move like Qe2 or Qe7 than castling.

That eliminates castling, and I can use the pieces on the board and higher-point pieces from the other board to bring about mate quickly. The thing to worry about most, is getting addicted to bughouse.

She's still not capable of beating me, but I'm able to teach her things she's not learned yet in the program such as castling and en passant. Then I'm happy to see her come back after that week's lesson to tell me she used what I taught her and won her game.

Whether or not it is valid to make moves such as castling or en passant pawn capture is dependent on the move order, not on the current board position.

I definitely wouldnt call castling and en passant essential. I just now played a game of chess against the computer on the lowest difficulty, and won easily without using either of those moves.

`Chess 1` has been tweaked over the centuries as well: castling and en-passant are quite recent. As to memorization of openings, the current world champion Magnus Carlsen thinks the attention to opening theory is overrated.

Then you also get people who don't know about rules regarding castling through check, etc. Basically what I'm getting at is, there are moves that even people who casually play chess might misunderstand, so OP was implying that they were not one of these people.

IE - Knowing your opponent is aggressive with their queen and having plans in place to quickly neutralize her,\nor being good at manipulating your opponents pieces util it gets to a point where you can gain a strong advantage by castling. All these objectives form the basis of what you're trying to accomplish with the ideal being that successfully executing your major objectives will gain you victory.

In general, castling is a good thing. In this case, and in retrospect, it was unwise. Carlsens pieces were aiming at the king side so further development and then castling queen side would have made more sense. I think Gates' first mistake was 3. Bd3. It blocks the d-pawn and the bishop isn't very active at Bd3. The computer gives white a small advantage after 2. . . d5 but a disadvantage after Bd3. It prefers to just take the pawn. With low depth the computer also plays Gates 4th to 6th move. So despite the threads on the king side castling seems possible.

Castling and en-passant are quite recent. They're not, really.