En passant for other than pawns

Is capturing 'en passant' can be done by other piece than pawn ? Ex. Can a Bishop capture a pawn 'en passant' or is it only between pawns ?

Only pawns can capture via en passant.  

Do you know the rules for en passant or would you like us to explain that too?

It is only between pawns. A bishop/knight/queen/(anything but a pawn here) is not able to capture a pawn en passant. Only a pawn can capture another pawn in that way.

Not if you have auto-win enabled.

The rules for en passant are here:

http://www.chess.com/learn-how-to-play-chess#special

One suspects (but can never be sure) that it may refer to an internal "button", based in r-complex of the brain, the deepest "reptilian" part of our brain and an early evolutionary structure that some believe is the heart of our competitiveness...  Once this button is "switched on" we will gladly work day and night until victory in chess is, essentially, automatic... how to switch it on is another question...

Hopefully experiencing and then seeking to recapitulate chess-induced euphoria gets close...

I just listened to a blog that discussed reptilian brain structures this morning.

http://hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/f/a/2/fa2f929f6f7192c0/skepticast2007-11-28.mp3?c_id=1927553&expiration=1371706617&hwt=a2df1bb40fd669dc90f7eabbfa5e6638

You have to teach your hypothalymus chess though.

It would seem reasonable to me to allow other pieces to capture en passant, especially since the rule was made specifically to prevent the pawn from avoiding a possible capture when moving two squares. I have to admit that would really complicate things though.

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I revived it because I felt like commenting on it.  Anyone who doesn't like it is welcome to ignore it. 

Enabling en passant for other pieces seems like a good idea at first. "Well, if a piece moves through a field hit by another piece why shouldn't there be en passant?" But no. In case of pawns they have only one direction of moving and hitting. Other pieces cannot "skip" a position in which they'd otherwise be under threat of being taken because they can move freely in the first place. This has to do with why a pawn can jump two squares originally and that's the only reason for en passant.

I was playing with myself an did a actual en passant with a queen no joke.