En Passant

Originally posted by kris1234
I have recently learned about the en passant move in chess and was wondering if anyone could give me an example in which it could be used to benifit you as your opponent can always take your pawn straight after you use it.

It is hardly ever an advantage to you that your opponent has the right to capture en passant. The only situations I can think of are:
1) It will take your opponent more time to decide on a move.
2) He isn't in a stalemate if he can hit en-passant


If you meant what can be the advantage of having the ability to capture en-passant look at the following example (black to move)

If white couldn't capure en passent he would lose right after h5.

Originally posted by kris1234
I have recently learned about the en passant move in chess and was wondering if anyone could give me an example in which it could be used to benifit you as your opponent can always take your pawn straight after you use it.

using en passant can often better the position that you are in or open up new attacking options. when using en passant sometimes the opponant cant immediatly take your piece because he may have moved the surrounding pawns already. there was once a game posted here with the query of why the position wasn't checkmate, it appeared to be the player didn't know that they could en passant to get out of check.

fred

Originally posted by kris1234
I have recently learned about the en passant move in chess and was wondering if anyone could give me an example in which it could be used to benifit you as your opponent can always take your pawn straight after you use it.

As capturing en passant is invariably optional, it ought to benefit the player who decides to use it, not the player who pushes his pawn two squares.