Do you remember en passant?
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Aug 17, 2017
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I use to remember en passant. I must admit that I can gamble with it from time to time if I have the feeling that my opponent forgot about the move - but I think it is bad style though.
Aug 17, 2017
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I think it's something that you kinda just consider subconsciously after a while. When I first started playing though I had a guy mated if it weren't for en passant, and neither of us could figure out why it wasn't mate lol.
No, I am acutely aware of en passant potential when it comes up. Sometimes I will play x4 as White or x5 as Black hoping that my opponent will take it so I can recapture advantageously.
Sometimes I do the en passant capture against a player and there is this pause before their next move...almost as if they're seeing it for the first time, and are momentarily confused, and it has clearly upset their planned moves. I hover between 1000-1200 Bullet, and I'd say about half of the players in my rating range do not know, or seem to know/use the rule, which isn't surprising, given how low that is.
Aug 17, 2017
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I treat en passant as just another move, I do it only when I think it is to my advantage.
Aug 17, 2017
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mgx9600 wrote:
I must admit that I too have moved my pawns up 2 squares hoping my opponents slips on remembering en passant
And that's why chess.com rapid ratings are hugely inflated. 1300 rapid? More like 500 OTB.
I don't think I've ever used en passant, but there must have been many situations where I could've used it to my advantage :/ I'm fairly new to chess so I guess it's just me not being used to the fundamentals, but in games, the situation rarely calls for this move, so it seems like something slightly more difficult to cement in one's brain compared to other chess rules.
Aug 18, 2017
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Growlithe99 wrote:
I don't think I've ever used en passant, but there must have been many situations where I could've used it to my advantage :/ I'm fairly new to chess so I guess it's just me not being used to the fundamentals, but in games, the situation rarely calls for this move, so it seems like something slightly more difficult to cement in one's brain compared to other chess rules.
It helps to know a little history behind it.
At first pawns could only ever move 1 square at a time. Games progressed a bit slowly in the opening, so later they could move two squares on their first move, but this let them sometimes bypass enemy pawns without the enemy pawns having a chance to capture.
So the en passant rule is you can capture a pawn that's moved 2 squares forward, as if it had only moved 1.
That usually helps people remember.
In the 100's of chess games that I played, I've let a few (maybe 3, 4?, definitely in the single digits) crucial en passant captures slip by because I didn't think of it. These all happen during the end game or when the king is defended by those pawns.
I must admit that I too have moved my pawns up 2 squares hoping my opponents slips on remembering en passant (basically, I'm counting on the pawns not being captured!! kind of like a gamble); these all happened during end games where I'm a bit desperate. Unfortunately for me, I don't remember any case where my opponent didn't capture.
A few times, I just plain forgot en passant and moved my pawn up 2 squares, then it's capture surprised me. Again, it is too bad for me because I think all those cases are also in the end game or some crucial defensive work those pawns needed to do.
How about you? ever forgot en passant capture when advantageous?
Have you played hoping your opponent forgot about en passant?
What chess.com rating do you think players might forget?