18 Dec 03
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okay, my opponent just pulled this strange pawn move, which he called en passent. Is this move a legal move in chess, and if so is there NE more strange moves? if you need a visual, look at the public game between beckdummy and jeoin during pawn A4-B3 while mine was on B4. He completely didn't touch my pawn.
18 Dec 03
i believe the history goes something like this :
pawns originally only ever moved 1 square at a time. To speed up the game, the double square move was introduced. To ensure that it was not used to create excessively closed positions, enpassant was needed.
Castling was also introduced to speed up the game. You have heard of castling havent you?
18 Dec 03
Originally posted by beckdummyGo to www.FIDE.com. You can find all the rules in the FIDE (international chess federation) handbook E.I.01A 'Laws of Chess'. Article 3 'The moves of the pieces', and Article 3.7 'pawn moves' under item 'd' the en-passent rule is explained.
okay, my opponent just pulled this strange pawn move, which he called en passent. Is this move a legal move in chess, and if so is there NE more strange moves? if you need a visual, look at the public game between beckdummy and jeoin during pawn A4-B3 while mine was on B4. He completely didn't touch my pawn.
Mephisto.
