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Rules of Chess: En passant capture FAQ. Answers to some questions about the en passant capture rule.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Sam Trenholme wrote on Fri, Oct 6, 2006 07:21 PM UTC:
1. e4 e6 2. e5 d5 3. exd6 (en passent) is legal in Chess; the presence of the pawn on e6 changes nothing.

- Sam


Chris wrote on Sat, Oct 21, 2006 06:49 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

cathalhnally wrote on Wed, Jan 10, 2007 08:40 AM UTC:
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


josef wrote on Wed, Mar 14, 2007 04:13 PM UTC:
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]

Ernie J wrote on Sun, Apr 8, 2007 12:03 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

goofy wrote on Wed, Aug 1, 2007 02:52 PM UTC:
question what does the term LIMITS and OPEN LINE mean

Anonymous wrote on Sat, Aug 18, 2007 02:06 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

Bob Larson wrote on Tue, Sep 4, 2007 07:11 AM UTC:
Can you redesign the page so it will print out completely rather than cut off the chess board illustrations.

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Anonymous wrote on Thu, Jan 31, 2008 12:07 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

Reinhard Scharnagl wrote on Thu, Jan 31, 2008 08:01 AM UTC:
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..

Sid Montero wrote on Thu, Jan 31, 2008 01:23 PM UTC:
EXCELLENT!!!

jim wrote on Thu, Mar 6, 2008 11:10 PM UTC:
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]

Joe Joyce wrote on Fri, Mar 7, 2008 03:59 AM UTC:
The 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.

Saif wrote on Mon, Apr 21, 2008 10:54 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
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

sathish wrote on Fri, Jun 6, 2008 03:01 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
it helped me a lot

Anonymous wrote on Mon, Jun 16, 2008 09:10 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

tom wrote on Wed, Sep 2, 2009 01:01 AM UTC:
excellent ! finally I understand it . the idea being pawn cannot avoid capture by the option of two square move.?

Anonymous wrote on Wed, Sep 2, 2009 01:33 PM UTC:
Tom, yes, you are right. The reason for en passant is so the pawn cannot avoid capture with the 2-step move.

Jim wrote on Sun, Oct 18, 2009 03:26 AM UTC:
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?

M Winther wrote on Sun, Oct 18, 2009 04:44 AM UTC:
Yes, of course.
/Mats

Anonymous wrote on Sun, Apr 3, 2011 12:48 PM UTC:Poor ★
Description of pawn move does not use standard terminology.
A pawn does not make a 'double-step' move, it moves 2 squares.

Christine Bagley-Jones wrote on Sun, Apr 3, 2011 10:37 PM UTC:
lol

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Jul 13, 2018 10:37 PM UTC:

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.


🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Sat, Jul 14, 2018 01:05 PM UTC:

I noticed the old diagram positions started from illegal positions. I fixed that by creating new diagrams that use legal positions.


🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Sat, Aug 4, 2018 07:39 PM UTC:

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.


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