em-passent

can anybody tell me whats em-passent move?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_passant

 www.chesskids.com/kids/enpas.htm  it is explained in detail here...its basically  the EN PASSANT capture happens when a pawn captures a pawn as it PASSES a square.

thanks baseballfan and rall

an example:

thank you bryanb and moopster

Hi Vakshayaa ( you are very pretty!)

The question is why the en passant move in modern chess?  As for the rules of en passant; Remember that it only happens according to the following rules:

1. A pawn sitting on a 4th rank square for White; or the 5th rank for Black --obviously, these pawns are there for a reason (guarding/watching over a square on the 3rd rank for White or the 6th rank for Black) -- When the Player to move, decides to move a pawn two squares from her 2nd rank for White or 7th rank for Black; her opponent can capture the pawn en passant as if the pawn actually moved one square instead of two.  Now, this rule is very interesting!  Could it be a remnant of when pawns were only allowed to move one square only before the invention of the modern game?

2. You must capture the pawn immediately; you can't make another move and then next decide to capture the pawn ( I've played some beginners who'd do just that!)  Also, there's no en passant on other squares, which again is not clear to many beginners ( yes, I've had players attempt to capture a pawn en passant say, a pawn sitting on the 6th rank vs. a pawn sitting on the 7th.

Good Luck

it is a SPECIAL MOVE.. you can check it in "learning" in chess.com

Empassent move is important in end games as it do not allow to creat a passed pawn by passing its enimy pawn's capturing squares!!!