JamesLeung wrote:
En passant is a chess rules that is: when a pawn is on his home square, moving two squares forward, if an enemy pawn is right beside it, it can take the pawn by moving diagonally to a black square. Like this:
There is this rule because a long time ago in chess, pawns can only move one square forward even on their starting square, but then some people changed it to make the game more exciting that pawns can move two squares on their starting square. But then in this position: Please, en passant is not a hack or a glitch or stuff it's just the rules of chess. By the way, only pawns can en passant and if in this position: If you still don't believe it, google and find the chess rules, or just click on the "rules" tab on chess.com that is in the "more" tab.
PS: If someone just don't want the rules of en passant, play with people who agrees with you, no one forces you to play chess in the standard way, call it something like "non en passant chess"
You missed one point.
In the first position, suppose this happens. 1. a4 Kg8 2. Kg1 is played. Here, is 2...axb3 possible? Without that important point, one can claim that en passant can be performed anytime.
En passant is a chess rules that is: when a pawn is on his home square, moving two squares forward, if an enemy pawn is right beside it, it can take the pawn by moving diagonally to a black square. Like this: