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ryanmmale
Just got down to a competitive middle game and he takes me with his pawn horizontal to me not diagonally to me? Is there something I don’t know or did the player just cheat?
Alramech
ryanmmale wrote:
Just got down to a competitive middle game and he takes me with his pawn horizontal to me not diagonally to me? Is there something I don’t know or did the player just cheat?

This is a rule called en passant.

Learn about it and see examples in this official Chess.com article: https://www.chess.com/terms/en-passant

ryanmmale
Is this en passant? Chess continues to amaze me