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- Richard: Hey, Sandra, listen to this: “The Border Collie Chaser has a vocabulary of 1022 words and is able to recognize objects by the groups they belong to!”
- Sandra: That’s cool.
- Richard: That must be the smartest pet that has ever lived!
- Sandra: Uh-huh.
- Sandra: No, Woo, pawns can only capture other pawns en passant, not rooks.
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@ KMorisato:
Oh yeah me too. So annoying!
DO. NOT. FEED. THE. TROLLS.
Just a bit of trivia on the move, for those who didn’t Google it right away:
En passant, which is French for “in passing”, can only be performed on a turn immediately following a pawn’s initial movement of 2 squares forward, and only by an enemy pawn if the two pawns end up adjacent to one another following the first pawn’s move. It is essentially an “interception”, and the rule was added to the game when the rule allowing pawns to move 2 squares forward instead of one on their initial move was added.
If en passant is not performed right away, the opportunity is lost, and in the rare event that it’s the only legal move available to the player, it MUST be done. This move can also only be made by a pawn to another pawn.
Just when you thought it was safe to move next to your enemy…
And only if the target pawn has just moved two squares forward.
@ Petah-Petah:
As you may already know, in chess the pawn’s first move may be either one or two spaces forward. It used to be that pawns could only ever move one space forward at a time. (diagonally when capturing)
Because pawns being able to move two spaces for their first move was not part of the original rules, we now have capturing “en passant”. “En passant” is a rule that only shows up in the very specific circumstance that a pawn moves two spaces forward, landing next to an opponent’s pawn. That is, if it had moved only one space forward, the opponent’s pawn could capture normally. Immediately after the pawn moves two spaces, the opponent may choose to capture that pawn as if it had only moved one space—that is, the capturing pawn still moves diagonally. The opportunity is lost if the opponent doesn’t take advantage of it on that turn.
So you’re right, any piece may capture any other piece; however, “en passant” is a rule that specifically applies to a pawn capturing another pawn.
Trimutius wrote:
Oh, there are diploma mills that will confer Ph Ds and MD’s on anyone or any being.