How many use "En Passant?"

This reminds me of my time back in chess club in 4th grade.

We were all really, really bad at chess. But of course, some people were less bad than others. Eventually though, people came up with rationals as to why they were above average- most of them completely wrong. Eventually there was plenty of tauting of "chess knowledge" by players who happened to be a little less bad. This including "revolutionary" openings such as:

and don't forget. 

The most popular opening for white:

Of course, you could always ask these players for "advice" and they would be happy to give you advice like:

- "Always get the rook off the 1st/8th rank as soon as possible"

- "Always try to attack F2 and F7"

- "Always take an exchange if you have it."

- "Keep the queen in front of the king, protecting it."

- "Always try to have a piece protecting the king."

And so on.

I'm sure that they treated en passant the same way, being happy to use it any time it was possible regardless of whether or not it was a good idea.

You can always find a cowerd because they castle.

I don't really like en passant, it's like cheating because someone says you can.

If skotheim is talking about tactics trainer problems on this site, then he is absolutely right.

Since playing many, many games of chess on chess.com with players in the 10 to 1600 range, I have not encountered one single person use it even though they could have. Interesting, eh? That is why I never used my opportunities at times. To me I thought it was an unwritten rule not to use it on this site. I appreciate reading the various comments and that is what a Forum is for, to share and educate, right? 

imsighked2 wrote:

You've got to be freaking kidding? Using en passant is "backstabbing?" If you do not understand en passant, and you don't use en passant, when appropriate, to your advantage, you're just not a very good chess player (and likely never will be very good).

Um,

I think that was meant to be chess humor.

Really? In my experience about 80% of my opponents have used it when it was possible and beneficial for them to do so.

They take your pawn and call you "pissant"!

I use it. My opponents not very often. In a recent game I lost I was hoping my opponent wouldn't use en passant. But he did and he promoted a pawn

Do you really want to find out? Not knowing all of the rules is conducive to bandsagging.

I win more actively en passantting to the maximum.

Is it just me or.........   ?

People who don't know about en-passant should learn the rules of chess!  Those who do, but "never" use it need to learn how to play chess.  Likewise those who use it all the time.

I'm with the vast majority of chess players - i.e. I understand what en passant is and I use it like any other move, when I think it is the best move I can find.

This made me laugh so hard. Thanks!

(And I use it if and when I find it advantageous to my current situation.)

Thanks for all the good comments. From my experience on this site, around 300 games with some very good players, not once was en passant used by either of us, nor even mentioned, so I still say even though there were many, many chances in which it could have been used by either of us, I feel it is an outdated part of the modern game between two people simply want some chess-fun. Happy New Year.

I just used it today!

If not, there will be a thread about it in three, two...

A guy from work told me his Chess program cheated!

and than described En Passant