💡📝Kevin Pacey wrote on Thu, Jan 28, 2021 09:46 PM UTC:
I had fast castling include a K stepping just one space because I thought it gave players an extra option, as can happen in Wildebeest Chess, or in Fischer Random Chess sometimes (when the random setup makes it necessary).
I later had some misgivings, but mainly because somehow people have found it difficult to program in rules-enforcing presets or maybe other software - yet Wildebeest Chess and Fischer Random rules enforcing presets have both been programmed in the past.
Another misgiving is that if games of e.g. Waffle Chess are ever played over-the-board, with touch-move rules in tournaments, a player may have to grab both his king and his rook at the same time to clearly indicate his intent to castle - something Fischer Random must have to cope with over-the-board too, though.
I had fast castling include a K stepping just one space because I thought it gave players an extra option, as can happen in Wildebeest Chess, or in Fischer Random Chess sometimes (when the random setup makes it necessary).
I later had some misgivings, but mainly because somehow people have found it difficult to program in rules-enforcing presets or maybe other software - yet Wildebeest Chess and Fischer Random rules enforcing presets have both been programmed in the past.
Another misgiving is that if games of e.g. Waffle Chess are ever played over-the-board, with touch-move rules in tournaments, a player may have to grab both his king and his rook at the same time to clearly indicate his intent to castle - something Fischer Random must have to cope with over-the-board too, though.