I played this game recently, on move 22 I wanted to en Passant the pawn but the game wouldn't let me. Is there something I'm missing, maybe a rule I'm unfamiliar with or was it just a bug?
Why couldn't I use En passant?
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Oct 8, 2020
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Your pawn must be on the 5th rank. White's pawn in this game is on the 6th. Hope that helps!
That's absolutely helps. Thanks you.
Karboz wrote:
I played this game recently, on move 22 I wanted to en Passant the pawn but the game wouldn't let me. Is there something I'm missing, maybe a rule I'm unfamiliar with or was it just a bug?
Well, at least you do know what en passant is about.
P.S. The difficult-to-spot 34. Qg7# would be nice to play here.
Oct 8, 2020
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Oct 8, 2020
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eric0022 wrote:
Karboz wrote:
I played this game recently, on move 22 I wanted to en Passant the pawn but the game wouldn't let me. Is there something I'm missing, maybe a rule I'm unfamiliar with or was it just a bug?
Well, at least you do know what en passant is about.
P.S. The difficult-to-spot 34. Qg7# would be nice to play here.
Mate-in-two scores the same as mate-in-one.
JamieDelarosa wrote:
eric0022 wrote:
Karboz wrote:
I played this game recently, on move 22 I wanted to en Passant the pawn but the game wouldn't let me. Is there something I'm missing, maybe a rule I'm unfamiliar with or was it just a bug?
Well, at least you do know what en passant is about.
P.S. The difficult-to-spot 34. Qg7# would be nice to play here.
Mate-in-two scores the same as mate-in-one.
True enough...
Oct 9, 2020
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#8
technically yes, but shure enough we all apeciate it more when somebody wins in some style and not, just for example, like a butcher.
so I follow eric0022 that 34. Qg7 had been the finer mate!
That would have been a finer mate, I agree. but usually when I see mate in 2 I ignore everything else lol.
It is about levels!
OK, good or great, and then aiming for and occasionally finding the 100% best move also creates good habits and increase knowledge.
Anyhoo, beer o'clock here, time to lose some knowledge
En passant was made so that the pawn couldn't avoid trading with the other pawn by using its ability to move 2 squares on its first move. So if the pawn could have avoided the other pawn by only moving 1 square forward, meaning the 2 square forward move isn't needed at all, en passant doesn't cover it.
That's why your pawn has to be on the fifth rank, and not the sixth. Hopefully that makes it easier to remember which rank en passant works from. I find it easier to remember things when it fits a mental model that seems reasonable to me.
Oct 9, 2020
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only premium members are allowed to use that move. It's one of the many benefits of a paid membership.
Oct 9, 2020
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Capabotvikhine hat geschrieben:
only premium members are allowed to use that move. It's one of the mjany benefits of a paid membership.
that's a new and funny idea. you pay more and get better rules. yes, rich people forwards, poor people behind, thats how the world go round.
no, without any bad fun, that is relly not the case, and if it would happen, I would quit chess.com!!
Oct 9, 2020
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#16
Was the original post that answered the question deleted.?The OP is thanking someone for the answer; however, I don't see it. White's pawn has to be on e5 to employ en passant. As eluded to in post 13, when the 2 move pawn rule was introduced, it allowed a pawn to escape capture by moving 2 squares when an opposing pawn could have captured a single square move. To prevent this 2 move escape, the opponent could make the same type of capture when the 2 square move was employed; however, only on its first occurrence. So the pawn on e6 cannot use en passant, as it would not have been able to capture even on a single square move. 
Oct 9, 2020
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#17
Are we continuing the fallen thread "His Pawn Cheated and Killed my Pawn"?
If you ever had a chance to capture your opponents pawn(aka being diagonal from it) then en passant is not valid
2Ke21-0 wrote:
Are we continuing the fallen thread "His Pawn Cheated and Killed my Pawn"?
No, we aren't. Let's not.
