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i am a very, very poor chess player.
i use en passant sometimes, it helps sometimes.
i almost always play several hundred points above my own rating, yet i cannot recall the last time i saw
others using en passant against my pawns and sometimes, not often, i have seen when it would have really been to their advantage to do so.
it is a good move to remember about.
@mister-moggy said"it helps sometimes"
i am a very, very poor chess player.
i use en passant sometimes, it helps sometimes.
i almost always play several hundred points above my own rating, yet i cannot recall the last time i saw
others using en passant against my pawns and sometimes, not often, i have seen when it would have really been to their advantage to do so.
it is a good move to remember about.
seems you've answered your own question
@lemondrop
It helps the most when the opponent temporarily forgets about en passant and then regrets it when he re-discovers that move a bit too late, like when it would be check and attack queen with a bishop or some such.
@greenpawn34 saiden passant stopping checkmate.
Opocensky - Hromadka, Slovakia 1931. (White to play)
[fen]4r3/5r1p/R1p2pp1/1p1bk3/4pNPP/2P1K3/2P2P2/3R4 w - - 0 25[/fen]
1,Nxd5 cxd5 2.f4 mate is being prevented by the BP on e4 and the en passant rule.
Rather annoying. However there is a way for White to get in f4 mate and it;s all forced.