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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.

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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?

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yes, i've heard of castling. i use it alot and it's move is o-o or o-o-o. But about this en passent, is it after you move passed the chess border or further?

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Originally posted by beckdummy
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.
Go 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.

Mephisto.

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Today I will be uploading new help files - which will include an animated example of En Passant. (And a new FAQ - including 'There is a bug in your code, my pawn vanished, what is going on???'😉

You would not believe how many times we get that!

-Russ

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One of the numerous threads dealing with en passant is here:

http://www.redhotpawn.com/board/showthread.php?id=7395

You should be able to find a good explanation or two there. 🙂

-Jarno

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Originally posted by Pyrrho
One of the numerous threads dealing with en passant is here:

http://www.redhotpawn.com/board/showthread.php?id=7395

You should be able to find a good explanation or two there. 🙂

-Jarno
http://www.redhotpawn.com/help/index.php?help=enpassant