En passant to get out of checkmate?
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had a game where i had a pawn in front of king, and no where for the king to move. the checkmate was a pawn move by opponent who moved pawn two spaces and checkmated. but couldnt i en passant to get out of that check? there wasnt protection for the pawn. or a piece pinning the pawn. do i not get to move en passant in tbis endgame situation. I dont know how to share the game as it wasnt on this platform.
Couldn't imagine why you couldn't. Just to affirm, the capturing pawn in front of the king, would have to be touching the king , not on the sixth or third rank.
yes king was on e4 pawn e5 and his final check was pawn to d5, shouldnt i been able to en pasant? like.i said it was a different platform i thought i didnt unslderstand the rules.
If it wouldn't let you, then a glitch in their program or doing the en passant exposed your king to a hidden check I would imagine.
nope his knight was in front of my pawn so no discover check on en passant.
Feb 5, 2022
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Hate to revive this old thread, but i had a puzzle challenge that involved check-mating black by moving my pawn from g2 to g4, while black had a pawn on f3. shouldn't en passant be a valid way for black to get out of checkmate?
https://www.chess.com/a/2j9AxdnYn29dHQ
Feb 5, 2022
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jenny4gz wrote:
Hate to revive this old thread, but i had a puzzle challenge that involved check-mating black by moving my pawn from g2 to g4, while black had a pawn on f3. shouldn't en passant be a valid way for black to get out of checkmate?
https://www.chess.com/learn-how-to-play-chess (check special moves/en passant)
Nope, that isn't how en passant works. If the pawn was on f4 (not f3) then en passant might be possible.
Feb 5, 2022
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There’s also no such thing as ‘getting out of checkmate’ either with en-passant or any other move. If there’s any available move, it was merely check.
I had a game the other day where my opponent nearly ran out of time because they didn't realise they could en passant out of checkmate, and they just sat there for four minutes before they found it.
JamesColeman wrote:
There’s also no such thing as ‘getting out of checkmate’ either with en-passant or any other move. If there’s any available move, it was merely check.
And this was how I actually learned en passant! Me putting my opponent in "checkmate" in an online game in another website (but not the seven-letter website) many years ago. Even better is, none of us knew en passant at the time!
eric0022 wrote:
JamesColeman wrote:
There’s also no such thing as ‘getting out of checkmate’ either with en-passant or any other move. If there’s any available move, it was merely check.
And this was how I actually learned en passant! Me putting my opponent in "checkmate" in an online game in another website (but not the seven-letter website) many years ago. Even better is, none of us knew en passant at the time!
Just out of curiosity, did you still win the game?
lfPatriotGames wrote:
eric0022 wrote:
JamesColeman wrote:
There’s also no such thing as ‘getting out of checkmate’ either with en-passant or any other move. If there’s any available move, it was merely check.
And this was how I actually learned en passant! Me putting my opponent in "checkmate" in an online game in another website (but not the seven-letter website) many years ago. Even better is, none of us knew en passant at the time!
Just out of curiosity, did you still win the game?
I ended up winning (I forgot how the rook and White king was positioned, but yes, Black was down a rook) but I felt somewhat salty when the checkmate pop up message did not appear.
