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Chess Games Special Moves: En Passant

“En Passant is a special type of capture move for Pawns ONLY.“

“Pawn takes Pawn, en passant“

“You may capture en passant ONLY when your opponent moved a Pawn two squares forward on the previous move.“

“This is a useful move when your opponent tries to sneak a Pawn past yours by moving two squares.“

“But remember: If you wish to capture en passant, you must do so on your very next move.”

En Passant

If player A’s pawn moves forward two squares and player B has a pawn on his or her fifth rank and on an adjacent file, B’s pawn can capture A’s pawn as if A’s pawn had only moved one square. This capture can only be made on the immediately subsequent move. In this example, an en passant capture would remove the black pawn and the white pawn would move to the f6 square, marked by an “x”