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Some of the weird-but-essential moves such as castling and en passant will not be apparent to you even after hours of playing like that.

• roryokane 14y ago
  I definitely wouldn’t call castling and en passant “essential”. I just now played a game of chess against the computer on the lowest difficulty, and won easily without using either of those moves. And during the game, the computer itself castled, which might have helped me to learn the move if I hadn’t known it.
  • tehwalrus 14y ago
    My partner's dad was evil: he taught "simple" versions of games, leaving out complicated rules like castling, when she & her sister were small, and then never explained the full rules later. Thus, when she played me at uni, she was furious that I was "cheating," until I showed her the full rules (the internet is brilliant) and she realised that it was her dad being crazy. In summary; it is essential to know castling exists, because otherwise as soon as you play another human, they will beat you with it.
  • aqme28 14y ago
    Castling is incredible essential. You might go 50 games before you see any need for En Passant, but castling is crucial in any real play.