King And Rook Change Places
There are no pieces between king and rook the white king has never moved before and the king is not in check now and must not cross a square that is protected by blacks pieces. The king cannot castle right into a check.

Thus the castling move swaps the positions of the king and rook simultaneously.

King and rook change places. This is easy just castle as white. It works the same for either side and the king is moved those two spaces toward the rook with which it is going to castle and the rook jumps the king and ends up alongside it. Make the king and rook change place in chess with help from a chess expert in this free video clip.
How do you swap the king and the rook on this game. Retired us navy officer served 1985 2005. The normal sequence of opening moves is to first get minor pieces out and a few pawns castle get the queen out and that leaves the two rooks alone in the back rank aside from the king near the end where they can move around freely between the files.
The king cannot castle over a square that is controlled by your opponents pieces. The corner square and the square adjacent to the corner square. I guess im doin it wrong or something because it just goes back to where it started.
Coordinate king and rook movements so that the enemy king can only move between two squares. White moves see above. Move the king so that he is one square diagonal of the rook not on an edge row and following these guidelines as close to the enemy king as possible.








