Enpassant pawn capture has been part of chess for thousands of years, was the best introduction to the game, as it avoids a lot of very dull games where games can get very congested with the pawn structures!?
Indeed. En passant was first used around 5,000 BC, in Mesopotamia, or modern day Iraq. The chess move, en passant, used then was fashioned after people travelling on horses to Rome to see the newly created Coliseum passed the slower moving donkeys delivering sand to make glass. From there the move was formally adopted by both India and Tibet, where it remains in use today.
It's probably not obvious to everyone but this is a troll post.
Thank you. I was responding to the notion that "en passant pawn capture has been part of chess for thousands of years". I too was not fully appreciative of it's rich history dating back so far.
I know. I was simply trying to stop anyone falling for your sarcastic version of history. 
Enpassant pawn capture has been part of chess for thousands of years, was the best introduction to the game, as it avoids a lot of very dull games where games can get very congested with the pawn structures!?
Indeed. En passant was first used around 5,000 BC, in Mesopotamia, or modern day Iraq. The chess move, en passant, used then was fashioned after people travelling on horses to Rome to see the newly created Coliseum passed the slower moving donkeys delivering sand to make glass. From there the move was formally adopted by both India and Tibet, where it remains in use today.
It's probably not obvious to everyone but this is a troll post.
Thank you. I was responding to the notion that "en passant pawn capture has been part of chess for thousands of years". I too was not fully appreciative of it's rich history dating back so far.