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castling

Also known as castle

Castling is a move in chess. It consists of moving the king two squares toward a rook on the same and then moving the rook to the square that the king passed over. Castling is permitted only if neither the king nor the rook has previously moved; the squares between the king and the rook are vacant; and the king does not leave, cross over, or finish on a square attacked by an enemy piece. Castling is the only move in chess in which two pieces are moved at once.

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Castling is a special chess move where the king moves two squares toward a rook and the rook then moves to the square the king crossed over, making it the only move in chess that involves moving two pieces simultaneously. This move is only allowed if neither the king nor the rook has moved before, the squares between them are empty, and the king is not moving into, through, or landing on a square under attack by an opponent's piece.

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Portable Game Notation: 0–0–0
inception: 1700-00-00
Commons category: Castling
Stack Exchange tag: chess.stackexchange.com/tags/castling

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Contents

Rules
Description
Requirements
Tournament rules
Castling rights
Notation
History
Strategic and tactical concepts
Strategy
Tactics involving castling
Examples
Korchnoi vs. Karpov
Heidenfeld vs. Kerins
Averbakh vs. Purdy
Edward Lasker vs. Thomas
Prins vs. Day
Feuer vs. O'Kelly
Fischer vs. Najdorf
Artificial castling
Castling in chess variants
Chess without castling
Castling in chess problems
Retrograde analysis
Novelty problems
Vertical castling
Nomenclature
References
Bibliography
External links

Castling with the is called kingside castling, and castling with the is called queenside castling. In both algebraic and descriptive notations, castling kingside is written as 0-0 and castling queenside as 0-0-0.