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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.
A player may not castle to get their king out of check. A king can capture an adjacent enemy piece if that piece is not protected by another enemy piece. A piece is interposed between the king and the attacking piece to break the line of threat (not possible when the attacking piece is a knight or pawn , or when in double check ).
In shogi, castles (Japanese: 囲い, romanized: kakoi) are strong defensive configurations of pieces that protect the king (Japanese: 玉).. In contrast to the special castling move in western chess, shogi castles are structures that require making multiple individual moves with more than one piece.
No Castling Chess is a variation of the game of chess invented by the former world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik and thoroughly explored by DeepMind, the team behind AlphaZero. [1] In this variant, every rule is the same as chess, except that castling is not allowed.
The rook (/ r ʊ k /; ♖, ♜) is a piece in the game of chess.It may move any number of squares horizontally or vertically without jumping, and it may capture an enemy piece on its path; it may participate in castling.
In chess, a king walk, also known as a king march, steel king, or wandering king (Dutch: wandelkoning, literally "wanderking"), is a maneuver where the king travels a large distance to a different part of the board in the middlegame or opening.
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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.