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Garanimal

In this game there was an error on move 7. I was playing Black and got cheated pretty badly. I ended up resiging due to my lost position. Please fix this ASAP, very frustrating way to lose a game.

TheNew444four444

What bug?

TheNew444four444

You mean En Passant?

http://www.chess.com/chessopedia/view/en-passant

Garanimal

Dude i moved to f5 and he took my pawn on f5 by exf6..... thats impossible, please run through the game and take a look for yourself

omnipaul

Sorry, but that is a perfectly legal move.  It is called En Passant, and it is not really surprising that you aren't familiar with it.  In fact, I guessed that's what this was about before I even looked at the game.  Whenever I casually play someone OTB for the first time, I make sure they know about it before I play them since it can cause just this sort of reaction if I pull it during play.

Garanimal

clearly I havent read the rules well enough, that rule seems a bit rediculous though =/

TheNew444four444

Sorry to tell you, but you were simply [and legally] outplayed.

Garanimal

Now im even more frustrated that happened. I should have known better

TheNew444four444
Garanimal wrote:

Now im even more frustrated that happened. I should have known better


Well, now you know. :)

FlowerFlowers

"en passant" oh yea.. lol when I joined chess.com I didn't know this move either and you know who pulled that move on me, my own sister who knows all about chess, no mercy lol but I'm still trying to understand it.  we didn't go through it really, I just looked it up on wikipedia

david1995
Garanimal wrote:

Dude i moved to f5 and he took my pawn on f5 by exf6..... thats impossible, please run through the game and take a look for yourself


Haven't you ever heard of en passant?

http://www.chess.com/learn-how-to-play-chess.html#special

 My opponent made an illegal move!?
Solution You think his pawn captured in an illegal way?! Or, he got two queens! or His king and rook moved funny?! Please review the rules of chess first. If you are still convinced there was an illegal move made, please contact support.
Chess_Lover11

LOL, even i had thought that i was cheated when it happened with me for first time, but i was small at that time.Tongue out

Phil_A_S

Although i don't understand why only the pawn can capture en passant, a rook should be able to as well, right?

trigs
Phil_A_S wrote:

Although i don't understand why only the pawn can capture en passant, a rook should be able to as well, right?


yeah i always kind of didn't understand why only the pawn can capture in this way. isn't the two square push by pawns also working in the same way against other pieces? that is, the pawn could have captured the first pawn if the two square push was not allowed - well that is true for every other piece also, so why only pawns get the break?

Trueroad

the way I've heard the story (and the way I remember the rule) is basically that the pawn who moves 2 squares ahead at the start to avoid the conflict with the opponent's already advanced pawn is being cowardly. His punishment for hiding from a fight is that he can be taken anyway.

ilikeflags

the worst

DrSpudnik

To finish the explanation, the e.p. rule makes sense, because if it were not possible to have it available on the very next move, pawns would all lock up by shooting past an advanced pawn on the 5th rank. The game would have dried up long ago without it. Or as my computer tech pal says: "That's not a bug; that's a feature."

Garanimal

Haha, I posted this like a year ago and I still think its hilarious how I went about describing how I had been hoodwinked :p

DrSpudnik

Have you learned to love the E.P.?

kco
DrSpudnik wrote:

Have you learned to love the E.P.?

Of course I love electricpawn.