somebody cheating !!!

not everyone is perfect and some totally unaware of the en passant rule, I think I have played it in play once, maybe twice.

 I am not sure how constructive some comments have been. ignorance can be bliss and everyone makes mistakes

 it's a funny move

Lol that deserves a good laugh... no fault of your own for not knowing the rule, you aren't a professional...

Definitely wrong of you to accuse anyone of cheating though...  it's people like you that can ruin a chess forum.

Best wishes in the future,

-Matt 

Not knowing this rule can ruin a chess game.  I once got 'checkmated' by a pawn move that I could capture en passant and when I did so, was told that you could not capture a pawn like that, and blah blah blah, so I just let it drop because I was going to lose anyway. 

Yes Matt,

You right and I public apologise for my words. Thanks for all the guys who understand the situation....

 

Best wishes to you

Toti

i thought that move should call pawn promotion..

Once I was playing an off-hand game with a friend and had a distinct positional advantage tripling on a file against a backward pawn on the seventh rank which also couldn't advance with my two pawns controlling the square in front of the pawn. After a move which I thought would win the pawn, he thought a bit and advance his pawns two squares. It was only when I was about to capture it that I realized that he might not have known about the en passant rule. Feeling guilty I didn't take the pawn and only explained it to him a week later (enough to forget the game) so he wouldn't feel bad about it. And yea, it was a pain in the ass maneuvering the pieces somewhere else.

I used to consider this a really random rule until I thought about the pawns option to open by moving two squares over a square that was attacked by an opposing pawn.

 

Not to change the subject, but now the fact that a pawn can open by moving 2 squares seems random.  Anyone know the historical significance behind that? 

I found this explanation in Seirawans' Play Winning Chess. "When the game was speeded up during the renaissance, the pawn acquired two new abilities.  the first relatively straightforward: If a pawn has never moved, it now has the option of moving one or two squares forward."  The other change was pawn promotion.

OckhamsRazor wrote:

Not to change the subject, but now the fact that a pawn can open by moving 2 squares seems random.  Anyone know the historical significance behind that? 

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back in the day pawns were only allowed to move one square at a time no matter where they were. The rules were changed so that initially you had the option to move one OR two squares. This was really for little more than the speed up the game.

 Of course, this also posed a problem of giving a pawn the opportunity to pass an opposing pawn and coast freely to the opposite end of the board to be promoted.

Thus enters "En Passant", which provided a possible safety against that.

OckhamsRazor wrote:

Not to change the subject, but now the fact that a pawn can open by moving 2 squares seems random.  Anyone know the historical significance behind that? 

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back in the day pawns were only allowed to move one square at a time no matter where they were. The rules were changed so that initially you had the option to move one OR two squares. This was really for little more than the speed up the game.

 Of course, this also posed a problem of giving a pawn the opportunity to pass an opposing pawn and coast freely to the opposite end of the board to be promoted.

Thus enters "En Passant", which provided a possible safety against that.

Fascinating, BT.  Thanks!

lol

seuss68 wrote:

I found this explanation in Seirawans' Play Winning Chess. "When the game was speeded up during the renaissance,..." 

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 Does Seirawan really use the word "speeded"?

I am sure if Yasser said "speeded", or anything else, he said it in a very gentlemanly way!

 Another point of en passant, since pawns Can move two squares at first; before this rule it was Much more likely all the pawns could get locked up and impenatrable without a piece sac. And that might be very drawish indeed.

 

 

simflan wrote: It's funny when somebody doesn't know about en passant,and when you make the move they are dumbfounded!

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Yeah... 

I explained this rule to my friend once and now he tries to do it with pieces...

LOL 

I avoid to play with opponents that do not know what is "en passant".

en passant, read up on it, you will like it.

"En passant" is the rule.  Cheating would be when your pawn or any other piece would really disappear without reason for it!