long castling
- noun
- /lɔŋ ˈkæstlɪŋ/
- Jargon
:
enroque largo
- After long castling, White's rook is immediately active on the d-file.
Examples
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The player chose long castling to launch an attack on the kingside.
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One risk of long castling is that the a-file can become weak.
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He performed a long castling during the match.
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Did you see that long castling move?
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After long castling, his king was safer behind the pawns on the queenside.
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The strategy of long castling often leads to stronger control of the center.
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In the tournament, she successfully executed long castling to avoid a check.
Synonyms
Move the king two squares toward the queen's side and put the rook next to it
Move in chess where the king moves two squares toward the queenside rook and the rook moves beside the king
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally built from 'castling' (the chess move) and the adjective 'long' indicating the longer/queenside variant; a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to the longer (queenside) form of castling. This is a domain-specific but predictable modifier pattern (long vs short castling) found across languages, so the meaning is transparently derivable from the constituents.
Etymology
The chess term long castling comes from the image of the king moving a longer way across the board toward the rook on the side where the queen starts. That's why long castling means the special move 'to castle on the queen's side', where the king and the queenside rook move together to get the king to safety and bring the rook into play.
