Questions tagged [en-passant]
En passant is a rule allowing a pawn to make a special-case capture.
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Is there an en passant opportunity in this position?
I am trying to create a scalable chess move generator in python for my chess engine. My legal move benchmark comes from "python-chess" library.
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En passant capture - statistically advantageous?
If anyone is doing chess score analysis (on say, last 10 years of competitive games), I wonder if it's identifiable how many times en passant (EP) capture could have been played vs how many times it ...
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Can a pawn move 2 spaces if doing so would cause en passant mate?
You cannot place your King in check, the en passant could be refused and because you are not placing your King in check directly it seems you can move your pawn 2 spaces. However, just like castling, ...
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In the evolution of chess, was there ever a version in which any piece could capture a pawn en passant?
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Why can't a piece (that isn't a pawn) capture en passant?
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Is there a variant in which any piece can be taken 'en passant'?
The en passant rule for pawns can be thought of as an 'attack of opportunity', such as in D&D - the attacking pawn would have been able to take the moving pawn as it passed through the first space....
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Games with consecutive en passants
Games with consecutive en passants, that is one side makes two en passats captures in a row, are few and far between to my knowlegde. I only know of one example thanks to Tim Krabbe.
Kudrin-R Douven, ...
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What’s the difference between Partial Retrograde Analysis and Retro Strategy?
What’s the difference between Partial Retrograde Analysis (PRA) and Retro Strategy (RS) which are different ways of interpreting retrograde analysis chess problems?
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Seeking a particular problem
I recall seeing a problem in Games magazine, probably in the early 1990s, that required the solver to deduce that a capture en passant was possible (not just because that's the only way to get a ...
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Checkmate via en passant capture [duplicate]
I tried to get the smallest sequence of moves that would result in a checkmate*( or rather Helpmate)* with the last move being a en passant . This is the shortest I could get :
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Why is there an en passant move? [duplicate]
Wikipedia says:
It prevents a pawn from using the two-square advance to pass an
adjacent enemy pawn without the risk of being captured.
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Games with three en passants
Games with two en passants in them are are uncommon, and games with three are exceeding rare, and four has never been achieved as far as I know.
I only know of four games with three en passant ...
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How can I set up en passant in the Popeye engine?
I want to solve a problem with Thomas Maeder's excellent Popeye engine, and to specify that a possible en passant in the diagram is ok. How can I do this please? The documentation seems opaque. Thanks ...
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What would chess openings be like without castling and/or the double pawn move?
Chess has a fairly elegant set of rules, but it has two rather ugly "rules hacks" in it:
Pawns can move two squares forward, but only on their first move, and have the rather ugly rule of en passant ...
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Can a player capture en passant two times in a row?
Suppose that there are only two pawns that White can use to put the Black king in check that are on the board.
But in both cases, the pawns need to move past Black pawns, risking en passant capture to ...
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Can you wait and then perform an en passant capture? [duplicate]
I am new to chess, so sorry for this obvious question. I was surfing through the web and learned the en passant rule. In this question they say "You cannot wait a few moves and then use the en passant ...
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Why did Black allow White to capture en passant two times in a row?
I read about this game on Tim Krabbe’s website and found it on chessgames.com. I am severely confused by Black’s 30th and 31st moves.
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Is the notion of an en passant redundant? [duplicate]
The en passant move can be utilised when a pawn is offered the option of being able to capture an adjacent file’s pawn, which has advanced two ranks. However, surely the game of chess would be fine ...
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En passant for beginners
When I started playing chess, I learned many of the rules of chess on my own.
I was playing chess online, and then I realised that pawns can capture in such a fashion. At first, it was weird to me. ...
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What should be defined as an en passant checkmate?
Is there a general consensus among composers, players, and/or organizations for what exactly defines an en passant checkmate, and is there any history to it?
As far as I know, there are two ...
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What is the fastest en passant checkmate after all other such captures?
I had an odd idea. What is the fastest way to checkmate via en passant after all other en passants have been completed?
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What is the maximum number of en passants possible?
Out of curiosity, how many en passants can theoretically be done by both sides, and what is the fastest way to achieve that result?
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FIDE threefold repetition and possible moves
FIDE rules section 9.2 says:
Positions are considered the same if and only if the same player has
the move, pieces of the same kind and colour occupy the same squares
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Rules: How does right to castle and en passant get considered for the purpose of calculating a threefold repetition?
I'm writing a chess app, and have some questions regarding the intricacies of the threefold repetition rules.
As of 2018, the FIDE handbook has this to say about what constitutes identical positions ...
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In the case of en passant, should I move my pawn first or remove my opponent's one?
I know that, according to chess rules, every move should be made with a single hand. However, this does not clarify if, when making an en passant capture, I should move my pawn first or remove the ...
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Can a pawn that performed an en passant capture promote at all?
So let's say I capture en passant with a pawn. Using the same pawn, I get to the 8th rank. Can I promote that pawn into anything else? I've heard of this restriction in various ways. Some say it can ...
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En Passant Checkmate
I made a check with a pawn that was subject to an en passant movement.
The check led to a checkmate, but the rules at chess.com didn't count it as a checkmate but let the opponent make his move. He ...
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Is capturing on empty square with a pawn legal? [duplicate]
How is it possible to move c4 to b3?
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Fastest possible checkmate by en passant
En passant is somewhat of a rare move in chess. Checkmating by en passant, however, is an even rarer occurrence. But suppose both sides had the same goal to help cause a checkmate to their opponent ...
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Why is en passant hardly heard of?
So many people I know (or have played chess with) have never heard of En passant and will call me out for cheating.
En passant is a move in chess. It is a special pawn capture that can only occur ...
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When capturing en passant, is a position possible such that there is a pin over the square of the taken pawn, rather than the taking pawn?
I am trying to write a simple chess program, and as part of this I am writing methods to find all valid moves. I can detect pins and have no trouble leaving out the moves that would result in the ...
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The chess.com engine didn’t show a checkmate
I've attached a screen shot of my game. It is Black’s turn to move. Their king was under check, but not checkmate, as the website didn't show mate.
After awhile, Black had to resign due to not being ...
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Why is en passant only possible on the first opportunity?
Quoting FIDE rulebook:
This capture is only legal on the move following this advance and is called an ‘en passant’ capture.
Quoting Wikipedia:
The en passant capture must be made at the very ...
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How do you use 'en passant'?
I have been playing chess for years but I was just introduced en passant only recently. I keep on forgetting when to play this weird move. I keep on asking myself "is it on the 5th row or the 4th row" ...
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En Passant vs In Passing
In Lasker's Manual of Chess (written 1932 or earlier) I have just read the phrase 'in passing' referring to the en passant capture. I wonder if this expression is old-fashioned or still in use. ...
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En Passant - Usage after one or more move(s) [duplicate]
I was playing chess on an app against a computer, and I could make an en passant after a move from me and the computer.
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When en passant is the only legal move
Consider the following position:
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1. g4 hxg3
In the above postion, White plays g2-g4. The only legal move is hxg3, en passant. I heard someone say that since the en ...
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Can you capture a pawn en passant with a king? [duplicate]
Friend right now is trying to en passant me with a king. I'm saying that its not legal.
He won't believe me.
He is saying that any opposing piece can capture the en passant pawn.
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Why can I not make an en passant capture? [duplicate]
Here is part of a Lichess game where I tried make to make an en passant capture-but it's impossible. The question is this-Why? I am new to chess. I searched for the chess of rules on Wikipedia, but ...
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Draws, en passant, and the FIDE's 2014 rulebook revision
Effective July 2014, the FIDE has revised its Laws of Chess. Some questions occur regarding the revision, including one re draws and en passant.
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When is it possible to carry out the "En Passant" manoeuvre?
This manoeuvre is a form of pawn capturing technique. When a player’s pawn jumps two spaces on a first move, that piece can then be taken from the side as the opposing pawn moves into the moving pawn’...
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Why can't a piece (that isn't a pawn) capture en passant?
Why can't a piece (that isn't a pawn) capture en passant? When a pawn makes a two-square move, the en passant rule says that on the next move, any pawn that could have captured it on the single-...
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Pawn giving checkmate
My computer checkmated me with a pawn move.
I could have taken that pawn en passant but I wasn't given a chance to do that.
Was that a fault of my computer, or is there a rule stating that a pawn ...
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Two questions about how the en passant capture works
I am still confused about the en passant rule. There are two possibilities regarding the capture itself that are not clear to me.
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What serious use of en passant has been made recently?
I'm a (very) amateur player and have seen the use of en-passant only a couple of times in club games. Chess books I've read (Soltis, Weeramantry, Pandolfini,etc.) feature hardly any games having en-...
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When and why was en passant invented?
Other than castling, the only "strange" move that chess pieces can ever make is en passant. It seems a little odd to me that someone thought that such a "different" move was so important to include ...
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Rules: en passant and draw by triple repetition
A question of rulebook pedantry:
One can claim a draw when the same position occurs the third time, the same player having the move.
Two positions are not the same if the earlier allows a capture en ...
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