King Position After Castle

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punchy_mcbam
After castling, my preference is to have 3 pawns lined up on the 2nd (or 7th) rank. Then I move the pawn on the outside file (A or H) forward 1 rank to give the king an escape hatch if needed later in the game. My king generally sits behind the middle of the 3 pawns.
I know this sounds pretty standard, what are some other preferred set-ups out there for protecting your king?
Ageiswisdom

punchy_mcbam wrote:

After castling, my preference is to have 3 pawns lined up on the 2nd (or 7th) rank. Then I move the pawn on the outside file (A or H) forward 1 rank to give the king an escape hatch if needed later in the game. My king generally sits behind the middle of the 3 pawns.
I know this sounds pretty standard, what are some other preferred set-ups out there for protecting your king?

I put it in my pocket.

Pikelemi
I use to swap kings early in the game
Lagomorph

Dont forget the king is an active piece too. Depending on what your opponent has left on the board it can be useful to bring him to f1/f8 later in the game to stop a rook coming down the open e-file to e1/e8

RookSacrifice_OLD

Cheat! Move your king to g0 (or g9 if you're black) so it can never get checked!

Monie49
Fianchetto the Bishop
universityofpawns

If I can trade enough pieces off the board and end up position or pawn up....sometimes I don't castle at all....some games I even let the opponent trade the queens off and recapture with King if I'm up a pawn and can still defend. I know my weird style isn't for everyone, but sometimes it is an advantage to have a central King later.

Lagomorph
Monie49 wrote:
Fianchetto the Bishop

 

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