Kevin Pacey wrote on Sat, Oct 14, 2017 06:36 PM UTC:
A rules question about Crazyhouse, for anyone who may know. Is it ever legal in a game for White to castle with a rook that has been dropped on a1 (or h1) after that particular rook has been moved or captured previously from/on that square? A similar question would also apply for Black, naturally. Also, I'm wondering how a rules enforcing preset for Crazyhouse would handle this, assuming it's been anticipated.
I think Greg once asked himself and a fellow Game Courier player why castling is illegal in Pocket Mutation Chess, and I suspect the answer lies in my first paragraph. Namely that it might be hard to keep track of whether certain rooks have been dropped back onto setup squares.
{edit: I suppose the same questions as above might apply to, at the least, bughouse as well. However, on the bughouse page it is explicitly noted that one can drop a rook on a setup square and still castle with it later, possibly. So, I suppose this applies to crazyhouse too - although I still wonder if the crazyhouse preset takes the possibility into account.]
A rules question about Crazyhouse, for anyone who may know. Is it ever legal in a game for White to castle with a rook that has been dropped on a1 (or h1) after that particular rook has been moved or captured previously from/on that square? A similar question would also apply for Black, naturally. Also, I'm wondering how a rules enforcing preset for Crazyhouse would handle this, assuming it's been anticipated.
I think Greg once asked himself and a fellow Game Courier player why castling is illegal in Pocket Mutation Chess, and I suspect the answer lies in my first paragraph. Namely that it might be hard to keep track of whether certain rooks have been dropped back onto setup squares.
{edit: I suppose the same questions as above might apply to, at the least, bughouse as well. However, on the bughouse page it is explicitly noted that one can drop a rook on a setup square and still castle with it later, possibly. So, I suppose this applies to crazyhouse too - although I still wonder if the crazyhouse preset takes the possibility into account.]