Labels:encyclical | sky OCR: page8 of 50 In Chess as it is played today. the castling rule derives from the fact that Rooks initially are obstructed by their own pawns and pieces Its easy to get Bishops and Knights out buwithout castling Rooks would be troublesome Grand Chess was invented few minutes after Irealized that putting all pieces except Rooks on the second rank would solve three problems simultaneously see diagram The board is square Capablanca and Lasker experimented with r0 10x8 board keeping pawns and pieces uo their regular distance They also tried 10x10 but witipi ieces on the back rank 10 compensate for their lengthy track, pawns were given the option to move three squar res initially. Of course they needed theastling rule ir both variants with the Rooks all tucked away. The pawns keep their reqular di ...
