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If an uncastled player defeats a castled player the former should receive a scoring and or rating bonus. Agree?

No idea what you're talking about. Sorry!

No. Why would a player waste a move on castling?

1.f3 2.Kf2 3.Ke1 is the best!!(blink)

Steven DuCharme wrote:If an uncastled player defeats a castled player the former should receive a scoring and or rating bonus. Agree?

It would be a chess variant if the scoring system rewarded those who didn't castle. As such it can be added to the long list of ideas representing tampering for the sake of it.

A couple of thoughts. The Berlin endgame after 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 5. d4 Nd6 6. Bxc6 dxc6 7. dxe5 Nf5 8. Qxd8 Kxd8 is popular enough as it is. Why encourage it with a bonus?

The style of some players, I'm thinking of the younger David Howell, appears to have a bias in favour of not castling and indulging in hair raising king safety for the sake of the tempo loss in castling.

Half of Korchnoi’s games in the French alone would give him a rating over 4000

Steven >If an uncastled player defeats a castled player the former should receive a scoring and or rating bonus. Agree?<

NO.

Why tampr with Laws that have stood the test of time for so many years? If you want to make a change, why not place the White king on d1 and Black on e8. That changes all opening theory with just one minor change.

It should be the other way around, if a castled player beats an uncastled player he should get a bonus because as we know 'Great players never castle'. They are so good, they don't need to castle...never actually met one though... .

Tweet from Radjabov: What happens when you do not castle : Nisipeanu-So 1-0 Dortmund Chess Tournament

1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 d6 3. f4 g6 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. Bb5+ Bd7 6. Bxd7+ Qxd7 7. O-O Nc6 8. d3 e6 9. f5 Nge7 10. fxe6 fxe6 11. Ng5 Ne5 12. Nb5 Qxb5 13. Nxe6 Kd7 14. Nxg7 h5 15. a4 Qb6 16. a5 Qb5 17. c4 Qc6 18. b4 Rh7 19. bxc5 Rxg7 20. Rf6 Nc8 21. d4 Ng4 22. Rf3 Qxe4 23. h3 dxc5 24. dxc5+ Ke8 25. hxg4 Ne7 26. Qf1 Rg8 27. Bb2 hxg4 28. Re1 Black should have castled queenside on move 12 instead of taking the knight. Nice game though.

Yes, I thought that too. Nice to see another victim of the Grand Prix Attack.

Looks like he never had a prudent chance to castle imo