Castling Castling Castling is a move in the game of chess involving a player's king and either of the player's original rooks. It is the only move in chess in which a player moves two pieces in the same move, and it is the only move aside from the knight's move where a piece can be said to "jump over" another. Castling consists of moving the king two squares towards a rook on the player's first , then moving the rook to the square over which the king crossed. Castling may only be done if the king has never moved, the
Touch-move rule 5...Be7 in reply to 5.d4, not noticing that White actually played 5.d3 attacking his knight. Now compelled to move the bishop, he would lose the knight without compensation, so resigned immediately . If a player wishes to adjust the pieces on their squares without being required to move or capture the piece, the player can announce "j’adoube" (, "I adjust"), or words to that effect in other languages. "J’adoube" is internationally recognised by chess players as announcing the intent to make incidental contact with their pieces. The phrase is used to give warning from a player to their opponent that