Castling manually is good exercise and creates a strong defensive position for your King early on in the game.
Doing in 3 moves what you can do in 1 wastes 2 moves. It gives away your opening advantage as white.
However, I have no doubt that you probably beat some poor sap with it. Why not post a game where you actually won using that kind of opening?
This is a good exercise if you've been caught off guard and still want to castle despite king movements!
This is a good exercise if you've been caught off guard and still want to castle despite king movements!
Did you think for more than 7 years on this response? It was totally worth it.
I recently came across the Hammerschlag in the Barnes and it's a pretty sound way to castle manually. Turns out that opening has been iconic since the mid-century. Better than Bongcloud/King David opening and Game Gambit and that kind of nonsense.
There are cases in which manual castling makes sense.
Castling manually is good exercise and creates a strong defensive position for your King early on in the game.
Doing in 3 moves what you can do in 1 wastes 2 moves. It gives away your opening advantage as white.
However, I have no doubt that you probably beat some poor sap with it. Why not post a game where you actually won using that kind of opening?
Depends sac'ing développement for moves like that change the mainstream strats and it can work. Its a good practice just like it says. Plus manual castling can happen when you arent able to castle because some times you lose the ability from moving it from something forced or you have a play with your rooks and want to move them.
Castling manually is good exercise and creates a strong defensive position for your King early on in the game.