The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word CASTLING which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2019.
Chess move involving the king and rook crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| CASTLING | 100 % | 8 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Chess move involving the king and rook
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- castling
- castle
- checking
- check
- exchanged
- exchange
- pin
- gambit
- mate
- knight
- opposition
- stalemated
Crossword Answer definitions
CASTLING noun- An abortion, or a premature birth.
- The second or third swarm of bees which leaves a hive in a season.
- A miniature cast or mould.
- One that is cast.
- To house or keep in a castle.
- To protect or separate in a similar way.
- To make into a castle: to build in the form of a castle or add (real or imitation) battlements to an existing building.
- (usually intransitive) To move the king 2 squares right or left and, in the same turn, the nearest rook to the far side of the king. The move now has special rules: the king cannot be in, go through, or end in check; the squares between the king and rook must be vacant; and neither piece may have been moved before castling.
- (usually intransitive) To create a similar defensive position in Japanese chess through several moves.
- To bowl a batsman with a full-length ball or yorker such that the stumps are knocked over.
- A move in which the king moves two squares towards a rook, and the rook moves to the other side of the king; the action of the verb to castle.
- The act of constructing a defense structure in Japanese chess in which the king (玉) is positioned in a certain way so that it is protected by pawns (歩) and silver general(s) (銀) and/or gold general(s) (金) often with an additional knight (桂) and lance (香車).
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