Can anyone explain to me how the aunt pass aunt works in chess?

Answer 1

Hi

En passant (from French: "in [the pawn's] passing") is a maneuver in the board game of chess. The en passant rule applies when a player moves a pawn two squares forward from its starting position, and an opposing pawn could have captured it if it had only moved one square forward. The rule states that the opposing pawn may then capture the pawn as if it had only moved one square forward. The resulting position is the same as if the pawn had only moved one square forward and then the opposing pawn had captured as normal. En passant must be done on the very next turn, or the right to do so is lost. The move is unusual in that it is the only occasion in chess in which a piece captures but does not move to the square of the captured piece. In chess notation, en passant captures are sometimes denoted by "e.p." or similar, but such notation is not required.

Answer 2

"en passant" is French.

En passant (from French: "in [the pawn's] passing") is a maneuver in the board game of chess. The en passant rule applies when a player moves a pawn two squares forward from its starting position, and an opposing pawn could have captured it if it had only moved one square forward. The rule states that the opposing pawn may then capture the pawn as if it had only moved one square forward. The resulting position is the same as if the pawn had only moved one square forward and then the opposing pawn had captured as normal. En passant must be done on the very next turn, or the right to do so is lost. The move is unusual in that it is the only occasion in chess in which a piece captures but does not move to the square of the captured piece. In chess notation, en passant captures are sometimes denoted by "e.p." or similar, but such notation is not required.

Answer 3

The way I like to explain "en passant" to the kids I taught chess too is to give them WHY the rule exists and then explain the rule to them. I think it helps them to remember it better, though it is still probably the hardest rule in chess for people to get the hang of.

In earlier forms of chess, the pawns only moved one square at a time. About 400+ years ago, changes were made in the rules to try to make the game more exciting. One of these rules was the option to move a pawn one or two squares on its first move. The problem is, that they found this could have the opposite result. If you wanted to, you could wait for your opponent to move into your territory with their pawn and then ZOOM right by him. This tended to lead to positions where none of the pawns were ever captured which makes it hard to win the game.

The solution was to say that whenever a player moves his pawn two squares, in the process moving up beside the other players pawn, that other player has a one time option to capture the pawn as it goes by. In effect, it is like the first player moves his pawn one square, asks if the other player wants to capture it and if not moves it on to the next square.

Now in reality, you just move your pawn two squares, and your opponent gets to consider if he want to capture your pawn or not. If he does, he captures it by moving foward diagonally and removing your pawn (which is the square behind where he just moved his pawn). He chooses not to, he cannot come back a move or two later and still capture the pawn. It is a one time option available his next move only.

Answer 4

Taking a pawn "en passant" in chess occurs in situations in which you have moved a pawn to the fifth rank (if you're white) or fourth rank (if you're black).

If your oppenent moves a pawn on the next file to either side of your pawn in a two square jump, you may take that pawn on the next move only by moving the pawn to the next square on the diagonal, just as if the pawn had only been moved one square.

Example: White has a pawn on d5. White can take the e pawn if it moves e7-e5, by moving to e6 and removing the pawn.

Answer 5

If you have a pawn on the other side of the center line, and the other player moves his pawn up two squares right next to yours. Then you can capture his pawn as if he had only moved it one square.