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Re: The most beautiful and devastating tactical concept

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Subject: Re: The most beautiful and devastating tactical concept
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by: Eli Kesef - Fri, 17 Mar 2023 13:17 UTC

Bs"d

There are sheep who follow the herd, no matter how ridiculous, I mean: "rook" for a castle or a tower; come on, get serious.
That is just as silly as "knight" for a horse.

But fortunately, besides the sheep there are trendsetters, who correct obvious wrongs.

And if you want to persevere in your silliness, then at least be consistent in it. So then don't do the castling anymore, but do the rooking.

This is a rook: https://tinyurl.com/non-chess-rook

This is a castle: https://tinyurl.com/chess-castle

Please let me explain the difference.

A rook is always black, not half the time white.
A rook has feathers and can fly, which is not the case with our castles.

Deep down every chess player knows that a castle is a castle, and not a rook, because we regularly do the castling, and we never do the rooking.

I hope we can now all get our nomenclature right.

Hanging on to calling a castle after a big black bird because the Persians use to call it an "elephant", a "rukh", is silly.
Our castles have nothing to do anymore with elephants, nor with black carrion eating birds.

https://tinyurl.com/H-not-kn

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The most beautiful and devastating tactical concept	Eli Kesef

Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.

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