en passant
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Duh, that's even better yet! Just follow the link.
at first I hated the rule of en passant, but NOW I appreciate it because it makes sense and it makes the game more fair!
Yeah, En passant my mum and my dad get. and my dad is drederick. But i don't. Well i guess i am to young
En passant can be played when a pawn is on the fifth row and the opponant moves a pawn that is still on the seventh row, and on the adjacent collumn, two squares forward, providing there is a vacant square behing the opponants pawn. You can then move your pawn diagonally to that vacant square and take the other pawn, just as if it was on that square - a normal pawn capture. But en passant must be played on the very next move.
It's funny because I firmly know the rule. However, it never comes up in play (at least for me). Does anyone else have this come up during play? I would really appreciate getting some details regarding why it came up, was it used in a strategic plan, etc?
It comes up once in a while.
To clarify the rule for those who don't understand it, think of it this way: If a pawn moved one square from it's starting position, it could be capture by an enemy pawn. But it moves two squares from its starting position instead. It can still be captured as if it had only moved one square, but only on the very next move.
--Fromper
This was either the very first or the very second instance where I was learning the ropes more than ten years ago (not on Chess.com of course) and had not been aware of the en passant rule yet at that time.
At this point of time, I was very surprised that the pop-up message (displaying that I had checkmated the opponent) did not appear. I believed that there was a bug. Ironically and unexpectedly, neither did my opponent know about this rule, and it took more than ten minutes later for my opponent to find out what to do afterwards. I was in shock after seeing that the pawn was "controlled by a spirit".
Can en passant be done twice in the same match. Obviously with unrelated pawns.
Tdbrown wrote:
Can en passant be done twice in the same match. Obviously with unrelated pawns.
Yes it can as long as the criteria is met
Can anyone, simply, remind of the criteria for en passant (excuse sp.)?
thanks
dred