Yes I would just like to see how many players here know the en passant move/rule and when did you knew about the move ?

For me, I knew about chess when I was about 7 or 8 but didn't realise about the en passant till ohh I think when I was 12 or so probably when I get into the books.  

Can't remember - 3

 Learn straight away. - 10

few years later  (2-3) -2

 A few years later  (4-5 years) - 7

more than 5 years later -3

I had never heard of the "en passant" rule until I joined a chess club (some 5 years after I started playing). First guy to pull it on me was given an interrogation. In fact, being a stroppy 13 year old, I refused to believe him until another club member confirmed the existence of this rule.

I really can't remember. It seems now that I've always known it. This is gonna bug me now.

I learned in 6th grade. Forgot all about chess untill recent, and relearned all the rules through reading the Idiots guide. Everything came back pretty quick (as far as rules are concerned)

 Haha, why the hell is gonna bug you now ?!

 So you are saying that you learn the en passant's rule straight away ? (in the 6th grade)

My father showed me that when I was 8-10 years old. One month after that I was just pushing all my pawns to the end just to capture once with En Passant move.

on chess.com, about a year ago.  i think i understand it now. ????   :)

 Really ?! So you learn chess a year ago (is that right ?) and  you sort of understand about en passant now ?

Cant rmember..... not sure if my grandfather taught me the rule or whether I read it in my first chess book or what or what not! :D

A few years later.

 figures, your dad's a GM.

I learned it only when I went to chess club, which was several years after I started playing against family members.  I was shown it on my first night at the club where I was taken aside and had a run down on all the rules.   

The French have had a very minor and greatly annoying influence on the game.  The en passant rule and "j'adoube" rule.

In Welsh tournaments we play Welsh rules so there is none of that French nonsense.  No en passant or j'adoube.  Even the French defence is outlawed.

Re: the Beast.  rofl   No croissants either!

Um, more like I signed up here 2 years ago to play one game, and.....well, chess.com is the root cause of the global economic calamity--we're all too addicted to work.

Anyway, along the way came along this odd "computer glitch."  Figured I should learn it.

Actually, it's only been 2 years.  I don't know what the hell I know.  lol

lol Beast!

How did you figure that out?

yeah lol  Beast719

I learned it along with the rest of the rules, and I always make sure I teach it to everybody I teach the rules of chess (though I guess some will then immediately forget it).

I played the game as a teenager and was completely ignorant of the move. It was only when I started playing again in my mid-twenties that I learnt about the rule, and to be honest, I didn't believe it was real at first. The first time I came accross it, I assumed it was a glitch on the server I was playing on. It is a great rule though, and was especially useful when I was playing at 1300-1500 on chess.com, as many of the players at that level were unfamiliar with it. I remember playing it once, and my opponant said "what the hell was that? Is this thing broken?" It's up there with the 50 move rule and under-promotion as something that only becomes useful knowledge after a certain amount of time.