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chg2266@is.nyu.edu (Cybil H. Gaster) wrote:


>Recently I was playing with an actor in my show when he did a most 
>peculiar thing...he moved his king 2 spaces and justified it with the 
>comment that he believed that the king could move 2 spaces its first 
>move. 

Maybe he's not crazy; he's just a bit behind the times.  Centuries
ago, in India, the king was allowed to move like a knight once 
per game.  One strategy was to move the king knight's pawn 
to the third rank, hop the king to the vacated square, and then slide
the rook out along the back rank---like modern castling.  Hence, the
modern openings involving the king knight's pawn, making room for the
bishop these days, are called Indian openings.