Sentence examples for castling from inspiring English sources

The word "castling" is correct in written English.
It is used in the context of chess to describe a special move involving the king and a rook.
Example: "During the game, I decided to perform castling to improve my king's safety."
Alternatives: "King-side castling" or "Rook move."

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castling

noun

An abortion, or a premature birth.

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But with the queen and queen's bishop still on their starting squares, castling long will take some time and 1…0-0 likes like playing into White's hands by castling into the attack.

Also, castling is not legal if the square the king starts on, crosses, or finishes on is attacked by an enemy piece.

The one exception to the rule that a player may move only one piece at a time is a compound move of king and rook called castling.

But last month I finally gave in to the demands of my nine-year-old son, Christian (named, I feel I should say, after characters from The Pilgrim's Progress and Mutiny On The Bounty and not, as most strangers assume, from some born-again zeal), that we should head off for Llandudno and go, as he likes to put it, "castling".

This high-handed "castling" maneuver soured spirits in Moscow, sparking a series of demonstrations in Bolotnaya Square and elsewhere in downtown Moscow.

After Topalov's thrust with 9 g4, Quinn decided that castling kingside in the teeth of Topalov's attack was not wise.

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Less pleasingly, from an English perspective, is the fact that she's just been well and truly castled by Coyte.

Back then, it was still widely supposed that every girl's dream was to marry a handsome prince and live happily ever after in a Tyrolean castle attended upon by mice and dressed each morning by bluebirds.

The short work for mezzo soprano and chamber orchestra will be performed in the Olympic stadium-sized equestrian centre beside the derelict Necarne castle, a space she described as "amazing – and with a perfect acoustic".

This is Castell de Peralada, a 13th-century castle in Catalonia where, as part of the town's annual arts festival, Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club will this evening make a stop on their farewell tour, nearly 20 years after they began.

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