En Passant

In soome games I have I cant en passant other pawns.How do you?

It may be that you're not allowed to take en passant in those games, eg you didn't do it on
the move after they moved their pawn. Post the IDs of the games, and people who know
more than me may be able to help.

If you are allowed to take en passant, then I think you just move your pawn diagonally, as if
to take the square behind their pawn. I've never done it myself on this site, but people have
done it against me, so it must be possible.

there are certain rules and guidelines to en passant I am not 100%
sure of them but I know in certain situations you CANNOT do it


Jason
Sgt At arms
Team USA

When your opponent advances a pawn two squares, capture that pawn
by moving your pawn to where your opponents pawn would be if it had
only advanced one square.

You must do this immedietly after the two-square move. If you make
any other move, you can no longer capture that pawn 'en passant'.

But does it matter if there are no other pieces surrounding it or not?


Jason
Sgt at arms
Team USA

surrounding what, Jason? I don't quite understand your question.

BAsically what I meant by that is does the pawn have to have no
where else to go or can you capture en passant at any time after the
two move advance? Also does it have to be TWO moves or can your
opponents pawn just pas you instead of capturing you for position
sake?

It's an optional move, Jason, and only between pawns. You don't
have to capture the opponents pawn en passant at all.

However, if you elect to do it, it must be done immediately when the
enemy pawn is advanced two spaces and passes your pawn. You can't
go back and exercise the 'en passant' option later, if you decide to
make some other move instead. (It's a case of "use it or lose it...&quot😉
It can theoretically be done more than once in the same game,
however.

Your pawn that will capture 'en passant' must already be in the correct
position to do it, and it is done as if the enemy pawn only advanced
one square.

And yes, it can only be done when your opponent elects to advance a
pawn two squares on it's initial move.

Hope that helped...

regards, Marc

A little history lesson on chess - I'm not sure it's correct (I'm sure I'll
be corrected if it's not) but this is how en passent was explained to
me.

Origionally, pawns were only ever allowed to move 1 place forward,
even on their 1st move. The rules were changed so that pawns could
move 2 places to speed up the openings. This however caused the
problem that it was now possible for a pawn to "jump" past an
advancing opponenets pawn by moving 2 squares forward which
wouldn't have been possible by the old rules. To correct this, en
passent was introduced so that if a pawn was bypassed by another
pawns 2 square advance it could still be taken as if it had only moved
1 space.

I always think of it as the pawn hacking at the oppenents pawn as it
tries to jump past him - probably slicing him in two....

Freak - the bloody minded

That is how I like to think of it.
John
The Ambassador
Little Grasshopper
King of MAP
Assistant Captain Team USA
MOst Titled Player

I have an anology to the en passant move. As a little boy (a long long
time ago), I saw a rooster get it's head chopped off. It ran all the way
around the house before it realized it had no head, at which point it
fell flat to the ground. This is what happend in (en passant) the pawn
move the second square the realized he was killed at the first square.
Momentum carried him another square. I was ticked pink the rosoter
got his head chopped off. He had attacked me a week or so before
while I was trying to feed him. Dran critter was as tall as I was.
John