En passent
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6 days ago
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#2
Because people need an opportunity on capturing a pawn regardless of how many spaces it moves.
who addet en passant
6 days ago
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#5
It was added a couple hundred years ago to stop positions becoming very closed too easily.
Okay thanks
I found out it was added by Ruy López de Segura in the 15th centery
He was a spanish chess player who was also a munk
2 days ago
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#10
Long time ago, pawns could only move one square up. At that time, there was no need for en passant. In order to speed the game up, the new rule was implemented, so now pawn could move 2 squares up from their starting position.
By doing this, the game was a bit disbalanced, it was easier to make a passed pawn, there was a need to allow every pawn to capture an adjacent opponent's pawn.
En passant is performing this function, and that is why it was necessary to implement it along with the initial 2 squares up pawn move.
Thank you for this informastion
Why is en passant in the game?