What is a En Passant in Chess?

Question

Is it french?

Answer 1

If your pawn is on the fifth rank (from your perspective) and your opponent moves his pawn up two squares so that it is next to your pawn, you can move diagonally forward in front of his pawn and capture it (even though you don't end up on the square where his pawn was). In other words, you could capture his pawn just as if he had moved it one square instead of two. But you would have to use this move immediately after he moves his pawn in said manner.

And yes, en passant is French for "in passing"

Answer 2

En passant (from French: "in [the pawn's] passing") is a special move in the board game of chess. En passant is a capture made immediately after 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. In this situation, the opposing pawn may, on the immediately subsequent move, capture the pawn as if it had only moved one square forward; the resulting position would then be the same as if the pawn had only moved one square forward and the opposing pawn had captured normally. En passant must be done on the very next turn, or the right to do so is lost. Such a move is the only occasion in chess in which a piece captures but does not move to the square of the captured piece. When claiming a draw by threefold repetition, two positions whose pieces are all on the same squares, with the same player to move, are considered different if there is the opportunity to make an en passant capture in one position but not the other. It is quite a rare move in chess.

Answer 3

"En passant (from French: "in [the pawn's] passing") is a special move in the board game of chess. En passant is a capture made immediately after 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. In this situation, the opposing pawn may, on the immediately subsequent move, capture the pawn as if it had only moved one square forward; the resulting position would then be the same as if the pawn had only moved one square forward and the opposing pawn had captured normally. En passant must be done on the very next turn, or the right to do so is lost."

Basically En passant is when your opponent moves his pawn two squares you pretand he only moves once and your take him. You can oinly do this IMMEDIATELY after he moves his pawn!

Answer 4

En passant is French in name for "in passing", but after that there's no chess mystique. It's simply being allowed one turn only to decide on a key positional play with your advanced pawn.

When any of your pawns reaches your fifth rank, and an opponent's pawn is passing next to yours utilizing the two-square opening move, you get that next play and that play only to decide to capture that pawn as if it only advanced one square. Moving a different piece on your next turn forfeits your ability to en passant the opponent's pawn in question.

There are no other tricks involved in this maneuver.

Answer 5

"A pawn attacking a square crossed by an opponent`s pawn which has advanced two squares in one move from its original square may capture this opponent`s pawn as though the latter had been moved only one square. This capture is only legal on the move following this advance and is called an `en passant` capture."

Answer 6

it means capturing a pawn"in passing".a pawn on the fifth rank can capture an enemy pawn that has advanced two squares on its first move,as if it had only advanced one square.it can only be done on the consecutive move after the 2 square advance,otherwise,it cannot be captured.