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Vertical castling - a now-forbidden curiosity!

I just came across this article about (formerly theoretically legal!) vertical castling - I'd never come across the subject before. The castling rules were amended in 1972 specifically to rule out this manoeuver. Maybe just in time: Spassky and Fischer would probably have started WW3 in that year in Reykjavik, if one of them had beaten the other with this as a key move.

www.quora.com/In-chess-is-castling-allowed-vertically
Things I learn that existed... woaw! Would wanna see it at least once in a PGN. Wouldn't make me a better person :D but does anyone have such a record ? that they want to share ?
John Gallager says this in his book 101 Attacking ideas lol. It is nice to troll someone.
Im feeling pretty stupid right now, If I'm trolled, some helpful and understanding person would need to help me out here ... :D
RandomBean - if you mean that Pam and Krabbé were trolling, then they were waaay ahead of their time! I found this study, resulting in mate by 3(!) different ways of castling (the final vertical castling move of variations 2 and 3 has to be imagined, the PGN won't accept it, funnily enough ...):

http://en.lichess.org/study/tN0BMOXr

Here's the link to the Wiki article containing the study, which for some reason is only available in German (!!!):

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochade_in_der_Schachkomposition#Mehr_als_zwei_verschiedene_Rochaden
Okay...I'll bite on this. I was 21 in 1972 and a USCF member. Followed the Fischer/Spassky match with the greatest of interest. I can not recall any such thing. This "Quora" web site may not be the best source for info...and if there is any truth to this...I'd like to see it. :]
Zugzwang - I wasn't suggesting that Fischer or Spassky knew anything about this move, much less that it actually played a role in any of their games; it was just the coincidence of the date 1972 which got my imagination going (I was 13 at the time and revelling in the hype ... ).

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