Originally posted by Katastroof
Thank you for saying I talk nonsense when you haven't even understood what I said.Please tell me when exactly did I advocate delaying or alltogether avoid castling?All I said is we don't know and what the strongest players of their time think is best is only proof of where current theory stands.
We know an enormous amount on the theory and practice of ch ...[text shortened]... do and you lived 100 years ago you'd say the sicilian defense is an inferior opening.
Of course, chess has developed as one can see from the strongest players of their time such as Morphy, Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Keres, Tal, Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov etc. But one thing they all had in common. In the majority of their games they will have striven to castle early. No temporary fashion, I don't think.
I really do believe, as I said before, that we (at least some of us) already understand enough about chess to know that it's highly unlikely that the tendency to castle early will ever be seriously reversed. The only way this might happen would be if there was a sudden large trend towards very slow closed openings with gradual build-ups, where it wouldn't always be so important to castle early. This I think is unlikely to happen, partly because the world of chess would die of boredom and partly because it would involve white voluntarily giving up the initiative that comes with the first move.
I'm sorry if I expressed myself rather forcefully in my earlier post, but you have to realise there are a lot of near-beginners and low-rated players on this site who are keen to improve their game. They can do without such unhelpful advice as this thread implies.