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    Quote Originally Posted by Kevin Pacey View Post
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    Regarding your second question, Even if a player is on the edge of being mated in some random position where he's down to almost nothing but an unmoved king and rook, if castling were legal then so would be moving the king sideways one step, I'd think.
    Unless e.g. you are talking about Chess960 and Fischer castling. Then castling can be the only legal move in some cases - a no castling rule implemented for in the case of Chess960 could in the case of some starting positions mean a player might stalemated due to it (but not if castling were still legal), there.
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    I'd add that former world chess champion Kramnik has tried "no castling" chess (whatever this CV is officially called) against an engine, maybe to see what it plays like when out of it's book (if not programmed for it yet) - I would think that taking away castling rights might favour White a bit in general, as he often gets to develop and attack first.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Castling_Chess
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    Here's what happened at a no-castling tournament in India with 13 young masters.

    https://en.chessbase.com/post/the-fi...decisive-games

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hugh Brodie View Post
    Here's what happened at a no-castling tournament in India with 13 young masters.

    https://en.chessbase.com/post/the-fi...decisive-games
    On The Chess Variant Pages site, editor Dr. H.G. Muller argues that this is not a legit chess variant - H.G. writes: "...the No-Castling initial position could be reached from the FIDE setup... by Nf3-Rg1-Rh1-Ng1 (repeated for the other three Rooks)...". I cannot argue with this except to say that many people seem to be treating it as a legit variant, in spite of being just a poor chess opening starting position.
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    Nine chess 'variants' suggested by Kramnik:

    https://en.chessbase.com/post/alphaz...chess-variants
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    Not sure if everyone can see it [all] but here is a link to LinkedIn's relatively new public Group 'Croatian chess', a chess variant-oriented Group that currently has 7 members:

    https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8989938/
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    Note that GC (Game Courier, on chessvariants dot com) currently allows for even blitz-rate speed of making moves, if players wish to move that fast. Also, a player can issue an invitation to play against him that has a very fast time control rate of speed, too, and, still under construction, real-time speed TCs for games is in the works.
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