This Mate in 2 Puzzle Forced FIDE to Change the Rules of Chess
Learn 3 Main Ways To Improve Your Chess Results Significantly FREE Masterclass Take Your Chess Skills To The Next Level With HighQuality Courses Learn here Join the RCA Affiliate Program, promote our courses, and get 50 commission Download the PGN of these chess puzzles from this blogpost In this video lesson, GM Igor Smirnov will show you a funny chess puzzle that forced FIDE to change the rules of chess. Tim Krabbé composed this puzzle in the year 1972, which was meant to be a mate in 3. It uses a loophole in the rules of the game that was present during those days. This eventually forced FIDE to change the rules. To be specific, it used the loophole called vertical castling. Back then, the definition of castling was It moves the king 2
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