Castling Glitch!

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dvas

I believe there is a glitch allowing players - at least sometimes - to castle when rules do not permit castling.  One of the rules for castling is as follows:

"The king must not pass through a square that is under attack by enemy pieces."

In a tournament game, my opponent was able to castle despite my queen attacking one of the open squares between the king and rook.  I was very disappointed to see this allowed.  

Can someone from chess.com please evaluate this glitch?  The game it occured in was between myself (dvas) and "theslamepoet" during a match in the 

http://cssjs.chesscomfiles.com/images/icons/chess/16_trophy_2.png); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 0px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; margin: 0px;">Team Washington Invitational < 1400 (starts Jan. 1)

 

tournament.

 

 


 

Thank you.

dvas

The tournament was "Team Washington Invitational < 1400 (Starts Jan. 1)

PrawnEatsPrawn

No glitch, only the Rook passes through b8, not the King.

ivandh
PrawnEatsPrawn wrote:

No glitch, only the Rook passes through b8, not the King.


Maybe the king was powered by the infinite improbability drive.

PrawnEatsPrawn
ivandh wrote:
PrawnEatsPrawn wrote:

No glitch, only the Rook passes through b8, not the King.


Maybe the king was powered by the infinite improbability drive.


 

Hand me my complete black-out shades and I'll take another look. Cool

dvas

God damn.  My bad, I evidently misunderstood the rules.  I guess there goes that game.  

PrawnEatsPrawn
dvas wrote:

God damn.  My bad, I evidently misunderstood the rules.  I guess there goes that game.  


 

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