What do you guys think of the en passant move?

What do you guys think of the en passant move? I think it's useless and meaningless. Like, who needs that move!!?? What do you think????

I like it, it adds another dimension to the game.

cool

Once you get use to it I think you’ll like it as well?

Without it, it would be too easy to lock up the board with pawns.

Good point.

I think there should be a lot more just like it.

You should be able to "Knight-passent" somebody, perhaps?

Knights were mounted, after all. Surely they could catch a man on foot trying to slip past them...

I was just thinking of all the puzzles where 900 rated players are always saying how easy 2500 rated puzzles are. Maybe with more en passant type rules these 900 players wouldn't think chess is so easy.

The en passant rule is a special pawn capture that I like. It occurs when a pawn moves two squares forward from its starting position and lands beside an opponent’s pawn, which can then capture it as if it had moved only one square forward. This rule prevents a pawn from using its two-square move to safely skip past an opposing pawn.

Similarly, some galaxies can use their high speed to safely skip past an opposing galaxy, avoiding a direct collision due to the extreme gravitational fields. But sometimes, the opposing galaxy can capture the passing galaxy as if it had moved only one square, pulling it into its gravitational field. This is like an en passant capture in chess, where the capturing galaxy moves to the area that the passing galaxy passed over, and absorbs it.

An example of this phenomenon is the interaction between the Milky Way and the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy that orbits around the Milky Way. The LMC is moving too fast to be captured by the Milky Way, but it is also losing mass and energy due to tidal forces and ram pressure. Eventually, the LMC will lose enough speed and mass to be captured by the Milky Way, like a pawn being captured en passant. This is expected to happen in about 2.4 billion years.

There should be a variation where en passant is actually forced

F'ing awesome.

"You shall not pass!"

Ιτσδφωαιβ έτη όσο σε αν ΟΤΕ. Ρήξη μα ις

It is a necessary rule to avoid a pawn advancing up two squares just to avoid capture; if this rule wasn't possible, then stalemate would become more likely as the positions could be more easily forced closed and the pawns locked up.

En Passant is a useful rule to have. Just don't get en passant captured by Danny

For some reason, to me the costume looks more like a Pokemon character than a pawn.

honestly i think pawn structures are dumb and that chess should have shogi pawns

i mean think about it the soldiers are staring at each other from 5 feet away but some unexplainable force is blocking them from attacking eachother in any direction but diagonally forward

on another note rooks shouldn't be able to move

@eric0022 that is probably because many of the Pokemon games have a similar blur when you are challenged to a Pokemon Battle.

en pheasant is a great strategic part of chess.

I think calling it useless and meaningless is useless and meaningless.

Who needs any move? Who needs to play chess? Who needs to troll like this?

But Jon Ludvig Hammer needed it to win against Magnus Carlsen.