I'm curious. I think that the en passant rule is totally awesome and if feels incredible to use it in a game. I have used it twice since getting on chess.com. Does anybody feel the same way?

hmmm ... for me the en passant rule is a weapon to be use by black. i usually will hope my opponent will en passant and give me a tactical advantages.

bwahahahaha...

i dont know of en passant

I myself was un aware of what the en passant rule was... for more information you can check this link that I found..

http://www.chessvariants.org/d.chess/enpassant.html

Interesting move.

You say you've used it before and it was awseome =o) haha, was it beneficial to your strategy or just fun to do?

haha or you could just read the basic tutorial on chess, which is a bit helpful.  And it states En passant on there too.

5Rivers wrote:

I myself was un aware of what the en passant rule was... for more information you can check this link that I found..

http://www.chessvariants.org/d.chess/enpassant.html

Interesting move.

You say you've used it before and it was awseome =o) haha, was it beneficial to your strategy or just fun to do?

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 Both :D

medievalchess wrote:

I'm curious. I think that the en passant rule is totally awesome and if feels incredible to use it in a game. I have used it twice since getting on chess.com. Does anybody feel the same way?

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I thought the en passant was less that of royality.. go figure..

 I haven't been playing chess very long, but I've read books and I know about en passant, but I've never heard of the zuzwang move. What is it? Thanks,-----anyone.

En passant is a great move, especially if played a little way into a game as it quickly accelerates the pawns advances on the more "important" pieces. Great stuff!

The en passant move is devastating if your opponent is unaware of it.  For some graphical explanation of zugzwang, go to www.chess.com/chessopedia/view/zugzwang.  Similarly, see www.chess.com/chessopedia/view/en-passant for further explanation of en passant.  The former is borrowed from German, latter from French. 

King_William wrote:

Zugzwang:

A German word meaning obligation to move.  The term is used for a position in which whoever has the move would obtain a worse result than if it were the opponent’s turn to play.  The term was first used in a German chess magazine in 1858

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       Thanks very much all of you who replied!  

En Passant - "in passing" 

 I usually find this to be a move I like to be played against me, like comel444said, it can give you tactical advantage, opening paths.

I believe I can use en passant but am unsure how to move the piece in chess.com.

I have tried but it doesnt seem to be taking it, but I am sure it is an en passant move.

What am I doing wrong?

 

what is the en passant

En Passant is great, but my opponent's always protest its use when I am in an OTB game.  I am constantly pulling out the rulebook and validating my moves.

i once played against a friend who was frurious with me for using it becuase he didn't believe it to be a legitimate move...    he quit the game,  and in the next one, made a move that was illegal,  and continued not to believe that the en passant is legal...

unbeliever,

I know its a silly question but do you know how I make the move in chess.com?

My apologies to all!

Thanks to another poster, I have realised my mistake, and the situation is not en passant.

Sorry for wasting any of your time.

Cheers

When I am teaching chess, I always tell my friends that if you do not include en passant it is not chess.  Without en passant a huge body of endgame theory is useless.

That said, when I was rated near 1400 I beat someone who was rated 2002 due to en passant giving me a passed pawn on F3 around move 20.  This was OTB. :D

I am suprised at how many players don't know about en passant and these are guys who have been playing for years!

 I learned about it from the very first chess book I read.