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George Duke wrote on Sat, Jun 28, 2008 04:25 PM UTC:
Trenholme writes that Castling comes from Duniho's Grotesque. Actually, Grotesque copies it from couple of others. I think the only example in Pritchard 'ECV' is worded ''two, three or four steps'' on 12x12; so that would not be the same, since there is potential fifth step on 12x12. ''Two or more'' may well have originated in couple of the 20 Falcon patents claims 1996. Once I searched and never found such ''free castling'' method even in other patents. At any rate, Grotesque copies the second of two alternatives in Falcon claims. Duniho is completely entitled to adopt it. Now there are a dozen Rules-sets using it in CVPage. At Falcon Chess we changed in 2006 official Rules to ''two or more'' from one or more. So, I would word FC free castling: ''Provided no check or passing through check or prior move of Rook or King, and no intervening piece, King moves two or more toward Rook, and Rook over King to the adjacent square.'' Now Chess Cafe Tim Harding wrote ''Bring Back Free Castling'' about 1998. That Italian free castling of 18th-19th centuries was different, because King could end at h1 and Rook at e1 on 8x8, for example, among other possibilities. We take that name ''free castling'' and use it to describe several castling methods on 10-wide without one fixed destination. Grotesque, Schoolbook and Falcon are all the same now.

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