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This page is written by the game's inventor, Andy Kurnia.

En Passant Chess

In standard chess, a pawn moving more than one step (i.e. two steps) can be captured by another pawn en passant on the move immediately following the multistep move.

Let us extend this rule to all pieces:


Written by Andy Kurnia. HTML conversion by David Howe.
WWW page created: October 30, 1998.