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Castling on lichess

It relatively often happens to me to make unattended castling on lichess. Last example has happened in my game against goshpro . After he played 19Qe2, i took my king wanting to play quuenside castling. Than i realized that I can checkmate him, so I left king on his position, and than I took rook on h8. Immediately, lichess made kingside castling for me, so I was lost. Is there any way to prevent such behavior? Here is the game:

Right clicking anywhere will deselect the piece you are currently selecting. You can change castling behaviour in the settings under game behaviour. But imo it's prolly better to get used to right clicking or clicking on a square the piece can't move to deselect. Pratice makes perfect.
My guess is that you clicked the king and then immediately clicked the rook, which is one way of signaling to the game your intent of castling.

I'd recommend clicking to another piece, then to the rook--or alternatively, you can disable two-click moves and simply drag the pieces instead.
I clikecked the King, almost moved it, than decided to leave it on his original square and touched rook on h8 - BAM - castling was done. I will try to practice lovlas method, maybe this can help. Anyway, I would prefer if described behavior could be changed.
Click on your username top right. Select "preferences", go "game behavior", select "drag a piece" under "How do you move pieces?"
There is also option in same "game behavior" place called: "how to castle". There is "move the king 2 squares" or "move king top to the tower". I think choosing squares fixes this problem for you

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