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I noticed the old diagram positions started from illegal positions. I fixed that by creating new diagrams that use legal positions.
I came across this page because another page was trying to link to it with a bad link. While here, I noticed that it looked a mess with its Javascript graphics that used a separate image for each space. I replaced these with single images for each diagram, I edited the text, added new questions, and fixed the formatting so that the three cells in each table row will display vertically on mobile devices but still display horizontally on desktops.
Description of pawn move does not use standard terminology. A pawn does not make a 'double-step' move, it moves 2 squares.
Suppose a black pawn has the opportunity to capture a white pawn en passant, but the player with black decides not to exercise the en passant option his next move. He has lost the chance to do it later in the game. But suppose later in the game that same black pawn has the opportunity to capture a different white pawn en passant. Can that same black pawn that opted not to capture en passant earlier in the game now legally capture a different white pawn en passant?
Tom, yes, you are right. The reason for en passant is so the pawn cannot avoid capture with the 2-step move.
excellent ! finally I understand it . the idea being pawn cannot avoid capture by the option of two square move.?
it helped me a lot
A very easy to understand description of En Passant rule.. i had to visit several other pages to understand this rule but only here i understood how it works. Thanks
Joe Joyce wrote on 2008-03-07 UTCThe purpose of the en passant rule is to give neighboring pawns one chance to capture. It doesn't make any difference which pawn gets that one chance to capture. In both the cases you mentioned, the pawn that just moved [the one that just double-stepped] could have captured the pawn that had moved up to a diagonally adjacent position, a pawns' mutual capture position, on a previous turn. Since the opportunity to capture was there, then the pawn that you are asking about cannot capture by an en passant move. Note that in a legal en passant move, the pawn moves 1 square diagonally forward, its standard capture move, whereas your suggested move would have the pawn capture with an orthogonally sideways move, one the pawn cannot make. I hope this answers your question adequately.
so what if you advance a pawn to a6 and the b7 pawn moves to b5, can you capture en passant? also i too would like an answer to the following previously posted question: I WANT TO ASK ABOUT THE SITUATION WHEN E2 MOVES TO E4 AND THERE IS A BLACK PAWN ON D3 , WHAT HAPPENS THEN ? I'LL BE THANKFULL FOR AN ANSWER . my email is: [email protected]
Sid Montero wrote on 2008-01-31 UTCEXCELLENT!!!
The question: 'Can other pieces except pawns capture en passant?' has been negated. But that is not quite exact. I will explain this: There had been a time in ancient chess, where pieces had been allowed to make only one single step. Thus chess had been a very slow game. Later in Italy chess has been modernized: the sliding of some pieces has been invented, an initial double step of pawns was introduced, and castlings were designed. But those moves have not been regarded each to be a continuous move, instead they had been interpreted as a serie of independent moves, by which chess could be sped up. This point of view leads by exception of the sliding moves (to avoid trouble when those pieces do capturings themselves) to the situation, that an opponent was allowed to answer by capturing also to any of the intermediately used target fields. Now only pawns are allowed to answer that way on pawns double step moves. And so it is clear, why that e.p move is merely allowed in the intermediate following move. But looking at castling moves you see, that a king still is not allowed to pass any square, where he would be in chess. That is nothing else, than that every enemy piece would be allowed to capture him via e.p..
Can you redesign the page so it will print out completely rather than cut off the chess board illustrations.
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Ernie J wrote on 2007-04-08 UTCExcellent ★★★★★I WANT TO ASK ABOUT THE SITUATION WHEN E2 MOVES TO E4 AND THERE IS A BLACK PAWN ON D3 , WHAT HAPPENS THEN ? I'LL BE THANKFULL FOR AN ANSWER . MY EMAIL : [email protected]
i noticed on your examples that the captured piece always has cover for
reprisal (the advancing piece can be captured). Can this move be used in
the latter stages of a game where the defence would be totally exposed?
Delighted to have found this move out (the hard way, ie. during play) and
i'm curious of other 'lesser' known rules.
Regards,
Cathal
1. e4 e6 2. e5 d5 3. exd6 (en passent) is legal in Chess; the presence of the pawn on e6 changes nothing.
- Sam
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One reason to format a page for mobile first is that browsers on old mobile devices cannot be updated as easily as browsers on desktops, leaving some mobile browsers without the functionality of the most up-to-date browers. So, if the default formatting is suitable from a mobile device, it will look right even if that browsers is not up-todate. With that in mind, I replaced the tables used to display three diagrams in a row with flexboxes that will display them in a row only on browsers with up-to-date flexbox capability and a wide-enough screen to display them in a row. On older browsers or on smaller devices, it will display them in a column.