[Retros] Castlind on cylindrical boards

[Christian Poisson]

It is not because someone says this special castling is a cook that it is
really a cook...

Christian
http://christian.poisson.free.fr/problemesis/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joost de Heer" <ildjarn666 at hotmail.com>
To: <retros at janko.at>
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Retros] Castlind on cylindrical boards



> >does anyone know how castling works in problems on cylindrical boards?

> >For example:  is castling possible with Ke1/Ra1 leading to the position

> >Kg1 Rf1 (besides the normal castling)?

>

> As far as I know, there are 4 castling types in vertical cylinder chess.

In

> two castlings, the white king ends on c1 and the rook on d1 and in the

other

> two the king ends up on g1 and the rook on f1. About a year ago there was

a

> composition by Étienne Dupuis in StrateGems which used this ultra-long

> castling. (it was a correction of a composition in which this ultra-long

> castling was a cook)

>

> Joost

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