[net.chess] French Rules???

jamesm (12/07/82)

Has anyone heard of a chess variation in which it is illegal for the
kings to face each other across an open board?

A few years back I was playing with a friend of mine from Viet Nam.
This situation occured and he was annoyed that I had never heard of
it.

Reading Mr. Wrights discussions about the history of castelling(sp)
made me think of this strange move.  I think that things like this
make the reading much more interesting.

Jim Murphy

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