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Some chess variants do not feature castling, such as losing chess, where the king is not royal, and Grand Chess, where the rooks have significantly more opening mobility. In a handicap game with rook odds, the player giving odds may castle with the absent rook, moving only the king. [37] [38]
The Oxford Companion to Chess lists 1,327 named openings and variants. [1] Chess players' names are the most common sources of opening names. The name given to an opening is not always that of the first player to adopt it; often an opening is named for the player who was one of the first to popularise it or to publish analysis of it.
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Staunton style chess pieces. Left to right: king, rook, queen, pawn, knight, bishop. The rules of chess (also known as the laws of chess) govern the play of the game of chess. Chess is a two-player abstract strategy board game. Each player controls sixteen pieces of six types on a chessboard. Each type of piece moves in a distinct way.
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Most Static Rook openings coincide with a castle development on the player's left side of the board. In the adjacent diagram is an example of a castle built on the left side of the board paired with a Static Rook position. [7] The castle is a Left Silver Crown Bear-in-the-hole (with advanced edge pawn).
Both players took the opportunity to castle on the first move (1.0-0 0-0). [18] In standard chess, a rook can castle out of and through a threatened square but cannot castle into a threatened square because that would mean its king passes through check since, when castling, a king always passes its castling rook's destination square.