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What is en passant?
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Accept
To take an offered piece, as in the King's Gambit Accepted opening 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4. See also "Decline".
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An aggressive move, line of play, or position. When mentioned in regards to a playing style, it indicates sharp or tactical t... | Read More
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Valentine day activity - Playing chess with friend in internet cafe. This is his first game with club player, after learning castling, draws, en passant and some first move discussion. This game should be saved as this is played "over the board"... | Read More
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Peón al paso (“En passant”)
La última regla sobre los peones se llama “al paso”, que en francés significa “en passant”. Si un peón mueve dos casillas en su primer movimiento y al hacerlo queda a la altura de otro peón adversario (... | Read More
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Greetings Chess.com Members!
I am thrilled to announce Chess.com University's first single-day seminar of 2014:
Chess 101: The Game of Chess
Level: This seminar is aimed at novices and those who have never participated in a rated OTB c... | Read More
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"Morozevich is a bright player; I like how he plays. This is active chess: only forword. Sometimes luck is on his side, sometimes it is not. It is not boring to watch his games." V. Kramnik
A. Morozevich was born on July 18, 1977 in Moskow and... | Read More
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A new student of mine is a dad of two. The older, his 7 year old, has recently discovered chess at school and was telling him about the pieces and how it works. That was all the motivation he needed to start learning this game. It is very humbling... | Read More
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1st - I finished Modern Chess Move by Move by Colin Crouch - my review....hmmm...I like the idea of a book of top level chess, but maybe for me as a 2400 player - I'm not a big fan of variations, and while it tries to take the move by move format ... | Read More
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Chess - is it a purely logical game?
Some people complain that chess is not a 'pure' game, as it contains too many artifical rules, namely: castling, pawns initially moving two spaces, en passant captures, pawn promotion and the stalemate draw.
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I couldn't help but feel I really missed an opportunity in my second round game, but in a five-round single day event you have to brush things off quickly. And so I continued on after the lunch break. I had white for round three and wass playing s... | Read More
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Hi everyone! A lot of you know the "special" moves of chess, which are en passant and castling. Here are some problems I made myself, for fun, which sneakily use these concepts (hint hint):
Ok. That was fun. Let's try another one!
I underst... | Read More
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On its first move, the pawn can either move one space or two spaces forward.
A pawn captures diagonally, which is kind of tricky.
But another way the pawn can capture is called en passant. This only happens when on its first move, an opponent... | Read More
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Opening theory vs chess variants
Capablanca was not the first to think that opening theory was becoming so vast that it stifled creativity. It seems like, particularly at a high level, opening preparation is becoming ever more significan... | Read More
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Hello Everybody!
After teaching two long classes for Chess.com University, I am back with a single-day chess seminar:
Chess 101: The Game of Chess
Level: This seminar is aimed at players below the 1200 USCF/FIDE level.
When: Sat... | Read More
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Chess is a game of strategy and tactics. Each player commands an army of 16 chessmen: 8 pawns, 1 king, 1 queen, 2 bishops, 2 knights, and 2 rooks.
A well-played chess game has three stages. In the opening, the players bring out their forces in ... | Read More
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Chess Boxing????!! Hmmm...
Ever get slugged in the head and then try an en passant?
How about combining Rope-a-dope with Ruy Lopez?
OK...THIS IS ULTRA BIZARRO!!!!!
OK???...No...it's more like KO.
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I am a chess player. By that I don't mean simply that I play chess. Being a chess player is one of the things, and an important one, that defines me as an individual. I can't remember when I was not a chess player, I even find it difficult to conc... | Read More
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Poetry in chess has been around for a long time. H.J.R. Murray's "A History of Chess" dedicated an entire chapter to Early Didactic Literature. It this chapter he discusses 11 Latin poems and 2 Hebrew poems from about 1000-1450 A.D. ... | Read More
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If you had it to do all over again, looking back, now that you know, what would you do differently to get from your beginning chess strength :
1. Well if I had to do it all over again, I think that You should be playing in tournaments an... | Read More
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If you had it to do all over again, looking back, now that you know, what would you do differently to get from your beginning chess strength :
1. Well if I had to do it all over again, I think that You should be playing in tournaments an... | Read More