- Or king's rook. The rook that is on the
kingside at the
start of the game.
Sometimes abbreviated "KR".
kingside Or king's side. The side of the
board (half-board)...
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called kingside castling, and
castling with the queen's rook is
called queenside castling. In both
algebraic and
descriptive notations,
castling kingside is...
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follows with
either ...b5 and
queenside play, or ...f5 and an
eventual kingside attack. Meanwhile,
White attempts to
expand on the
opposite wing. The resulting...
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strongly influences both players' ****ure actions. White,
having pushed a
kingside pawn,
tends to hold the
initiative on that side of the board. However,...
- and White's king
bishop aiming at Black's
weakened kingside.
Black will have
trouble castling kingside, and Ng5 is a
likely threat. White's
position is...
- are
labeled a
through h from White's left (the queenside) to
right (the
kingside). The
horizontal rows of squares,
called ranks, are
numbered 1 to 8 starting...
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characteristics because of the
propensity of the
kings to
castle on the
kingside. Pawn
structures often transpose into one another, such as the isolani...
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checkmate rarely occurs in practice. The mate is an
illustration of the
kingside weakness shared by both
players along the f- and g-files
during the opening...
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board after ...Bxc5.
White usually tries to
exploit the
extra space on the
kingside,
often playing for a
mating attack.
White tries to do this in the Alekhine–Chatard...
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basis of an
attack (particularly if the
fianchetto was
performed on the
kingside).
Exchanging the
fianchettoed bishop should not be done lightly, therefore...
