Yea i know i messed up the whole article

Colinh... If you post an article, please make sure you know what your talking about.

This article is completely wrong, the En Passant move is:

colinh - we are all of us learners when it comes to chess.

In the good ol days - I think in the 15th century - pawns could only move one square at a time. This meant that most openings consisted of lots of pawn moves, to get pawns to the 4th rank. To speed up the game, it was agreed that a pawn's first move could be either one or two squares. I don't know who came up with the rule but en passant is French for in passing, so maybe it was a Frenchwoman or man.

However, Houston, there was a problem. Players could by-pass opposing pawns and escape capture. This was not the purpose of the rule, which was only to speed the game up. That is why, when playing en passant, the pawn is treated as if it had only moved one square, and so can be taken on the square it 'jumped'.

ummm....no. you have got the impression of en passant totally wrong! that is why the computer won't let you play it.

before you argue, check this out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_passant