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. This variant reduces king safety, theoretically leading to more dynamic games, as it would be considerably harder to force a draw and the pieces would be forced to engage in a mêlée.
According to Kramnik, who assisted DeepMind, in exploring this variant, this game helps to sidestep opening preparation.[2] He added: "This would inevitably lead to a considerably higher amount of decisive games in chess tournaments until the new theory develops, and more creativity would be required in order to win."[3][4]
^Kramnik (VladimirKramnik), Vladimir (2019-12-02). "Kramnik And AlphaZero: How To Rethink Chess". Chess.com. Retrieved 2023-07-09.
^Simonite, Tom. "AI Ruined Chess. Now, It's Making the Game Beautiful Again". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2023-07-09.
Castling is the only move in chess in which two pieces are moved at once. Castling with the king's rook is called kingside castling, and castling with...
NoCastlingChess is a variation of the game of chess invented by the former world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik and thoroughly explored by DeepMind...
rook are the same as in classical chess, namely: After a-side castling (queenside/long castling in classical chess), the king finishes on the c-file and...
the same color square as they initially begin. NoCastlingChess: standard rules except that castling is not allowed, which means king safety is reduced...
promotion. Castling consists of moving the king two squares towards a rook, then placing the rook on the other side of the king, adjacent to it. Castling is only...
(0-0-0). The king slides two cells when castling short; three cells when castling long. Other standard chesscastling rules and restrictions apply. Pawns...
two-step initial move is absent in Indian chess; thus, the en passant capture is also absent. Normal castling with rook and king is absent. The king can...
any adjoining square. No move may be made such that the king is placed or left in check. The king may participate in castling, which is a move consisting...
required by the rules of chess and is usually not done in tournaments. Once per game, each king can make a move known as castling. Castling consists of moving...
World Chess Championship 2004. Péter Lékó won, defeating Veselin Topalov in the finals. A flagship event of the newer incarnation is the NoCastling Masters...
castling long Castling queenside; in chess notation: 0-0-0. Also called long castling. castling rights The ability to castle under the laws of chess....
king's bishop. The king moves three squares when castling instead of moving two squares as in standard chess. A pawn can promote to archbishop or chancellor...
Artificial castling (also known as "castling by hand") – taking several moves to get the king to the position it would be in if castling could have been...
promotion, and castling. A series of Grand Chess Cyber World Championship matches was sponsored by the Dutch game site Mindsports. Grand Chess tournaments...
of castling apply, and it is done exactly as in chess, with the king moving two squares to either side: to h0 for White or h9 for Black when castling kingside;...
Castling can be handled in one of three ways: Castling is allowed, but not with a rook over the board edge. This maintains the options for castling available...
piece setup like in Speed chess was intended to teach short side castling and setup as in Chess Attack - long side castling. Laszlo Polgar published a...
castling, with the only difference that the castling player can choose to slide his king one, two, three, or four squares. As in chess, the castling rook...
chaining Castling and En-passant capture in the Codex 2009 Archived 2018-06-19 at the Wayback Machine, janko.at Tim Krabbé, On Castling. In Chess Life &...
pawn on an adjacent file) or move two different pieces on their turn. Castling is considered a single move. When a player gives check on the first move...
cannot transfer into check on the second board. Castling is largely regarded as permitted in Alice chess; both king and rook would then transfer to the...
to 9 April in Şəmkir. In July, Anand played a four-game match of NoCastlingChess against Vladimir Kramnik at Dortmund. Anand won the first game, and...
can move from e1 only with castling kingside and then g1–h2–g3–... so the pawn on g3 cannot be white. In Bichromatic chess, the opposite restrictions...
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