En passant

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You are playing a game OTB and you play en passant.  Your opponent freaks, "that isn't legal he screams!" 

 What do you do?


Avatar of silverskyski
You tell him to look it up on wikippedia or to ask a chess coach if it is a legal move. It is.
Avatar of Loomis
I was playing a game at a coffeehouse not long ago and my opponent got confused on en passant. I think he tried to play it when it wasn't legal. We just called over another player to settle it (don't let them call over someone else who doesn't know the rule!).
Avatar of demuxer
like any castle case, he must learn the rules, 'en passant' is the last thing players learned ;)  I heard a lot of dumbs screaming like that
Avatar of Dany31
What is "en passant"?
Avatar of oginschile

http://www.chess.com/article/view/chess-rules--basics

 

Scroll down to en passant.

Avatar of silverskyski

True. I didn't learn about tell I read an old chess tutorial book.

Avatar of Fromper

If it's a tournament, just call over the tournament director. If you're playing a non-tournament game at a club or something, there's probably a book lying around that you can show him that explains the rule to him.

 

--Fromper 


Avatar of -BEaNZ-
yeah, that has happened to me before. I just told him to look it up.
Avatar of ChessDweeb
I'd resign and say something about my opponent being an expert and too smart for me. Then I'd go find somebody else that would explain it to him. He'd feel about 2 centimeters tall.
Avatar of trimalo

The rule of "prise en passant" in chess was introduced by the French in the late 15th century.

The rule was officially adopted by the European chess community in the 19th century e. So, while there is no single inventor.

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