Hi there in this lecture, I want to introduce you to the concept of castling, why it's useful, and
then we'll go on to the rules of casting.
So why would casting be useful in chess?
Well, kings used to be kept in castles and real world battles.
Kings are kept safe in castles, and the castles themselves are often heavily fortified, defended.
And chess is a kind of war game simulation.
The great fighters of the past, he did some zoo.
You need to put yourself beyond the fates before going onto the attack.
So the good fighters often do that.
Otherwise there's a potential for backfire if you do go on the attack before putting itself beyond the
face.
So quite often games, for example, go like this 845 Efrain, 96, Bishop, CIFOR, Bishop, C5, differe
these things and then White Castles Kingside here.
It's on the Kingside because this Sindhis board is the king side and this side of the board is the queen
side.
And no one will reinforce these concepts and other little lectures.
So White decides it's a good idea, it's a castle.
And you do that by moving the king to squares and then moving the rook, not the other way round, because
that could be treated as a move in its own right.
If you did, this software would accept that as well online as a move in its own.
Right now, you move the king to squares there that's there and then the right moves by itself usually,
and the opponent could do the same.
So Saini have six CIFOR and then the opponent counsels.
So your king is tucked away in a literal castle of the chessboard was a metaphorical castle.
The chessboard, like the old kings in those castles and in war, you know, you want to keep your kings
safe.
Generally you're valuable stuff safe and your king is your most valuable art piece.
If you get checkmated, you lose the game.
If you checkmate the opponent's king, they lose the game.
So it's not a war principle in general that you want to put yourself beyond the feet before going on
the attack.
And cancelling plays a vital role, that's the way of counseling, and we're going to look into the
how of of other lectures for when it's legally possible to count.
But generally, you want to do this quite often.
Some of the shortest games in chess happen when one side doesn't cancel.
Their king is left exposed in the center for too long.
So really, it's like your most precious piece and you really do want to counsel, and I hope this is
just to look at the rules of counseling and other lectures, but, yes, it's about putting yourself
beyond the feet before going on the attack.
Counseling is important.
And not only that, it's a way of bringing the rocks to the center as well.
This rocks being brought to the center.
Sounds good.
We'll have more scope later.
OK, so that's why you'd want to cancel.
OK, let's so much.