en passant: legal but still a cheat move

i would but now @mattew is also waiting for it - i cannot disappoint him or he might not respect me.  and i'll all about respect.

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/off-topic/jalex13-avez-vous-mangez-vos-escargots

Look at it this way.  Think of the squares as land. Chess was/is a game of war. It may be a mental one fought on a board but the idea is ground war since only recently did we invent flight, machinery, automobiles, etc.  It used to be a battle mainly on land (& mainly on foot) gain a bit here & there, lose some, etc.  It only seems logical  that pawns (the lowly foot soldiers) should fight for terrain before conquering it, bypassing it. If the opposing pawn has spent effort & time (that IS a price/cost) reaching the 5th rank (ur side) it shouldn't be possible to simply disregard its existence & move past its influence without first addressing it & the square it attacks.  U should have to at least compete for it. So consider the squares as plots of land to be acquired. Besides, if en passant didn't exist then almost all games would end up as draws because all the pawns would get locked up. 

Ok, that resolves this thread & all others similar to it, which have been many. Ur welcome. 

and i thought political avatars and handles were not allowed?

It's ok as long as it's only one side of the political spectrum,  it's commonly referred to as hypocrisy. 

The eyebrows at the end though.   Hahahaha.....

You are always fairly logical.  How you can defend a complaint against a chess move by comparing it to loving your mother escapes me.  Baking brownies today?

i had to change mine to hide the face behind a south indian rice cake. 

It's not the chess move that's in question. It's how some people feel about it that's the issue. 

There is a lot of emotion in chess. If that's good or bad, I don't know. I play the game for fun, but some people take it much more seriously, and as a result seem to get more emotionally involved. So if someone feels cheated by anything, en passant, a surprise attack from the opponent, a mistake on their part, a knight promotion, etc you can't really blame them. They are human. Humans have feelings and emotion. 

The person who feels cheated by en passant also is likely to just stop moving when faced with a no win situation. The point is you can't tell someone their feelings are wrong. It just never works out well. 

Feelings ugh.  You can "feel" any way you like but you can't complain a move is cheating.  Well, actually you can and ridicule is what you can expect.

It's all about respect and respect doesn't care about your feelings. Wait, that can't be ...

yall is it just me or does the rook look like the tower from pizza tower

--> (UR IN CHECK.MOVE)

ITS PIZZA TIME 👨‍🍳🏃 AND TEN SECONDS AWAY FROM LOSING UR 100 COMBO