en passant

en passsant

what do you mean

A lot of players first encounter en passant in a game and question if it is a legal move. First seeing it in a game, without knowing the rule in advance, could be considered learning it the hard way.

I myself learnt it the hard way after a "checkmate" turned out to be a non-mate due to en passant.

Show us on the pikachu doll. 

Guilty. I even started a site feedback thread because i thought my pawn was illegally taken due to some kind of glitch, what a weird rule.

If the move had not been introduced it would be much more likely that the pawn structure could become locked, and thus there would be many more draws. 

A nice player explained this to me in my thread also, but i appreciate the explanation. I was very confused. And i was also wondering why i had never seen it in action in the hundreds of games I've watched and played.

Well possibly your opponents were also unaware that it is possible! 

Haha true at least i wasn't the only one that doesn't know the rules.

And thus it took forever for my opponent to launch an en passant move (like more than ten minutes later) and I was like "is that a glitch?".

This was more than ten years ago.

i thought it was a glitch too but it was a few days ago

I just did it in a game for the first time a couple minutes ago, it didn't really improve my position or create a threat, and there were plenty of good moves i could have made but i just really wanted to try it.  

shut down this forum

can I?

It's embarrassing, i would welcome a shut down