[Retros] Are the King and the Rook pieces or what?

[Rol, Guus]

Sounds like FIDE, yes. For clarity, the discussion was about "illegal
castlings". Did the FIDE list those as well? I'm sure they did. Let's
name them "the Centipede rules" ;-)

Guus Rol.


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Verzonden: maandag 28 januari 2008 15:04
Aan: andrew at anselan.com; The Retrograde Analysis Mailing List
Onderwerp: Re: [Retros] Are the King and the Rook pieces or what?

I remember when FIDE were finalising the Touch-Move rules, and they
listed all possible combinations e.g. I touch my WKe1, WRa1 and WRh1
simultanously with a BRd2 and BPh6. Do I have to play "0-0, Kxd2, or
Rxh6"
or can I play Rh5 or Rd1 etc etc?

For obvious reasons, we called these "The Octopus rules."

    Jonathan