long castle
- noun
- Jargon
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enroque largo
- After he played long castle, his rook immediately controlled the open file.
Examples
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Choosing to long castle can offer greater attacking chances on the kingside.
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Some players avoid long castle because it often exposes the queen's rook pawn.
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After executing a long castle, the king was better protected behind the pawns.
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The strategic decision to make a long castle allowed him to launch an attack on the queenside.
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By opting for a long castle, she developed her rook and gained control of the center.
Synonyms
Move in chess where the king moves two squares toward the queenside rook and the rook moves beside the king
A chess move where the king moves two squares toward the queenside and the rook moves beside the king
Surface Forms
Morphology
long + castle
The phrase is a straightforward adjective + noun composition: 'long' (meaning extended or on the far side) modifies the chess move 'castle', so a learner who knows both words and the chess sense of 'castle' can infer it refers to castling on the long (queenside) side. This is a conventional chess term (cf. grand roque/enroque largo) and follows a predictable compositional pattern, making it immediately comprehensible to learners with the constituent knowledge.
Etymology
Long castle comes from chess: it names the move when the king walks two squares toward the 'queen's side' and the rook travels a longer way than in a short castle. So long points to the longer rook move and castle is the king-and-rook move, which is why 'long castle' means 'to castle on the queen's side'.
