In this section I will look at good and bad examples of castling in chess.

It is usually advisable to castle in the opening game, after the first few developing moves have been made.

However, you will often see players castling into trouble, which is what my first two blog posts about castling in chess deal with:

  1. Castling in Chess: Look Before You Leap (1) – What happens when castling leaves your king exposed…
  2. Castling in Chess: Look Before You Leap (2) – Black castles into trouble in the Advance Variation of the French Defense…