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Literally as intermediate I didn't know this move it allow literally am confused literally against bot I thought was bug lol but thx your explaining anyway
I’m 35 years old. During childhood, I attended regional chess tournaments from ages 9-12. I have played chess fairly casually for my entire life since then, although particularly stepped up the pace in the last 5 years (thanks, Queen’s Gambit!). I have always known this move has existed because it has been used against me in bot games, but neither I nor (apparently) any other person I’ve played with IRL has understood it because I have never seen it done in person. So I could totally see you as a kid being treated like a wizard for knowing how to correctly do this. This video was really helpful and I’m going to consider actually using this move now.
I literally did this to my cousin and he raged. He advance his pawn two squares to put it beside my pawn and i captured the pawn and he was like "WHAT?!?!" then i said "Its a legal move dude, its called en passant" and then he's so angry because i can move my pawn to promote it to a queen.
@@LinardsZ Not really, a queen can do whatever a rook or bishop does, so either of those are useless. A knight has very specific movement, and its a lot easier to evade checkmate by knight. Sometimes a knight is useful though. I would say don't promote to a knight unless it puts the king in checkmate. Edit: However, Promoting to a rook/bishop would be helpful if the queen promotion makes the opponents king an a stalemate.
I did this in a school competition once, the look on the opponents face was just priceless 🤣 someone who actually plays chess competitively had to explain to him that the move was okay and he still didnt believe it 🤣
same shit happened to my friend, he is at 2051 elo rn and he decided to join school's chess tournament to mess with ppl when he got to finals and used en passant the other guy raged and it took a whole god damn day to explain the situation
My friend played this against me once, but he decided to just undo his move because he felt it was unfair to do a move I didn't know about and therefore wouldn't have been able to predict.
I didn’t think that move was legal, I thought the game was gagging me, I learned how to play almost 30 years ago and am just learning this move this year
You likely did not learn it from a professional source. This move is all over competitive chess. People who do not play chess competively should not be trusted to teach you how to play the game.
I was lucky to learn about this move in chess club in high school. Of all the games I've played against others since then, I think only one of them knew what it was. Granted I've only been in the position to do it maybe 5 of those games in the last 10 years, but everyone who didn't know about it raged. All it took was showing them proof online that it was a legal move. They weren't happy about it and I was okay with allowing them to recall that move afterwards but it definitely got hairy
Some while ago I finally got a winning endgame against Nelson (the bot) with only king and pawns, one thing to note is that I thought en passant is a glitch cus I never heard about it. Then the next thing you know I got hit by the en passant so badly and lost the closest game I ever gotten to beat this stupid bot
@@pauliewalnuts100 there will be an option if your pawn is in the fifth square and the other pawn just skipped one square on their first move. if you move any other piece in that turn, you wond be able to do en passant anymore.
it is a bit random as any piece should be able to do en passant on a double moving pawn. not just another pawn. That would have made so much more sense from the first day when I learned the double move. It's just 2 moves. You could just ban the double move and there would be no change to the game, and no need to passant
@@artrisk1304 I'm just saying the en passant rule doesn't make 100% sense "bro" and that anything should be able to capture a double moved pawn. Will removing the double move slow down the game, yea... Will it make it boring? No. Cmon, stop going to extremes for the sake of argument..
It's literally one of the first things i learned at the beginning of playing chess, when i was learning about the pawns and the movements of pieces.. and my elo is pretty bad so I can't imagine a player of more than a month not knowing about this🙁
I think that En Passant has became so popularized just by the internet that people who don't even play chess still know about this. This video was released 3 years ago so probably back then En Passant was not as popular.
@@amyv. As he explains in the video, chess was !"#!%! boring until en passant was implemented. Games just kept being ended in draws, since pawns could easily be set such a way no one could do anything.
been playing chess for about a year this happened to me two times in a month and i thought the app was surely glitching now realising how rare it was to happen is crazy
If both players agree not to use en passant, then should our initial pawn move be only one square from the beginning or still two? I’m sure there’s a better way to ask this. 🙂
As he explained in the video, it was to remove the boring gamebreaking advantage of moving two ahead, which causes tons of remis games. Boring and repetitive. But having a forced 1 only move works, but it still simplifies the game a lot and causes repetitive gameplay.
Since I'm a beginner, I use the assisted mode and this move was suggested to me. I've heard of En Passant for years but I never really looked into it. I don't think that it comes very often in play though.
Yea same here. I honestly think the move takes away from strategy of pawn play to be honest. Just learning the basics around it but it just seems too offset from the actual game to make any sense. Seems like a way to keep strong pawn players in check lol
En passant capture exists since 16th century, at least. This is one of the rules that *define* the modern chess together with the optional pawn move of two steps, the modern move of queen, the modern move of bishop, castling and promotion of pawns to queen, rook, bishop and knight.
is this only available after they did the second space move? meaning, do you have to take advantage of en passant in immediately the next move? or can you play other pieces unrelated to the two pawns and use that move as long as they didn't move?
Answering for other readers as I assume you've found out. Yes, you have to do it on the turn after the pawn moved 2 spaces. If you choose to move another piece instead of doing an en passant, you forfeit the en passant opportunity.
It can happen anytime the opponent tries to avoid your pawns by moving 2 squares, so only if they have never moved. If you could have captured his pawn if he only moved 1 square, you can en passant
Doesn't that just follow. Like your enemy has to do the two-square jump he can only do as the first move of the pawn and your pawn has to stand next to it, so you automatically always stand on the 4th/5th row.
This is the only move I've been taught by the adults around - who were very competitive at chess. For a long time I didn't understand why people kept telling me I wasn't a beginner/joking when I told them I was. Obviously I was, I just knew this very particular thing they didn't hear of very often
I figured this was how it was done but, 1) I did not know “en passant” meant “in passing” so thanks for that little bit of trivia 🙂👍 2) I can’t imagine a practical situation where I might use this move🤔 But I don’t play chess that often. I’m trying to get back into it though😅
Man I taught myself to play 30 years ago when I was 5 using a $10 plastic set and small book I got at one of those scholastic school book fairs. I dont think this was covered in that book. I never really took it serious and I've really just casually played on my phone occasionally and I just learned about this today.
Won't the opposite teams' pawns, that are still in their starting position, be able to attack my pawn, too, though? Or can pawns only attack after they've made their first move? I apologize if my question seems as though it has an obvious answer. but I literally just started learning chess today.
the first move of a pawn can be,1 move forward, 2 moves forward or 1 attack to the sides. You can only capture en pessant style if your opponent does 2 moves forward as they are actually only 1 move at a time but sped up. after the en passant move, you can then attack with any of the pieces normally. but you cant stop en passant with another en passant, as that is only 1 single attack and not 2 moves.
Absolutely a forced move. If you don't make an en passant move when you have the ability to, The Chess Council will find you guilty and ban you from Chess for your lifetime. Holy hell
en passant can be done by either player but only on the turn directly after their opponent moves their pawn two spaces next to yours. bishops cannot en passant .
I don't think the opposite pawn should capture the pawn I think it should be an opportunity for the pawn to take advantage of its first move to avoid capture
so, all the pawns can move 2 squares at their first move, and you can capture these "2 square jumpers" with the "en passant move" if he lands next to your pawn, just like he would've moved only 1 square, but only if you do it as you next move, you can't do it later, after you moved something else... Am I getting this right?
Rules are rules, but following the rules is what some ignorants don't do. I have played against people in my childhood who didn't believe that the queens face each other on the board. He instead placed them both right side of their kings.
careful, the key word here is "RIGHT NEXT to your pawn". That is, if the oponent pawn moves two squares, but lands behind your pawn, then you can not take using en passant.
when this was first used against me in a school tournament I had to ask one of the teachers wether that was a real move or not lol. that's how I remember that rule.
It’s whenever. However, if you don’t take opportunity and instead play another move, it’s too late. It’s only allowed just after your opponent pushes their pawn two spaces.
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Literally as intermediate
I didn't know this move it allow literally am confused literally against bot
I thought was bug lol but thx your explaining anyway
Can this move be used by a pawn on any other piece
Can i en passant many times in a turn
Me too!
At first I thought it was just a glitch when it happens against me lmao
@@xshxr wow, ur a fucking prick. Who’s the one on this fucking video, just like him. Go sit down bitch
This conversation is gold.
@@xshxr This made me laugh. Thank you.
@@naayerhs7300 what did he say??
@@xshxr who’s the one who fucking deleted their comment. Man’s moving like the government, saying one thing then pretending it never happened.
Finally, after all these years, I understand this pawn technique.
My friend Grant got me into chess and taught me as well. This is one of the 1st moves I remembered but I could never execute.
You'll have to wait another 20 years before it actually presents itself in a game, so don't get your hopes up.
@@NikoBased it happens more frequently than you would think if you play some openings
@@AepBlazeng I’m sure, I was just kidding
@@NikoBased ok
I used to love this move when I was a kid because it seemed like no one else knew about it.
I’m 35 years old. During childhood, I attended regional chess tournaments from ages 9-12. I have played chess fairly casually for my entire life since then, although particularly stepped up the pace in the last 5 years (thanks, Queen’s Gambit!). I have always known this move has existed because it has been used against me in bot games, but neither I nor (apparently) any other person I’ve played with IRL has understood it because I have never seen it done in person. So I could totally see you as a kid being treated like a wizard for knowing how to correctly do this.
This video was really helpful and I’m going to consider actually using this move now.
I promoted my Pawn to Queen and the opponent literally called me hacker. I am gonna try en passant, maybe someone will call me Steve Jobs.
Wha??😂
Let me guess 400 rating?
@@wiselychosenname2867 100*
😂😂😂🙈
HHAAHAHHAAHHAA
I literally did this to my cousin and he raged.
He advance his pawn two squares to put it beside my pawn and i captured the pawn and he was like "WHAT?!?!" then i said "Its a legal move dude, its called en passant" and then he's so angry because i can move my pawn to promote it to a queen.
Ok
@@siccoblue2112 Ok
@Bacon Hair bcz queen is best piece?
@@jetstreamsam6735 not always there are moments when you need to promote to rook or bishop or knight instead.
@@LinardsZ Not really, a queen can do whatever a rook or bishop does, so either of those are useless. A knight has very specific movement, and its a lot easier to evade checkmate by knight. Sometimes a knight is useful though. I would say don't promote to a knight unless it puts the king in checkmate. Edit: However, Promoting to a rook/bishop would be helpful if the queen promotion makes the opponents king an a stalemate.
It's actually fairly intuitive when explained in this way.
How is it possible that there are still moves I'm finding out about chess.
Just taught my dad about castling. He’s not gonna believe me when I show him this...
Google en passant
@@conneactivity holy hell
Apparently there's more chess moves than there are atoms in the universe, or something crazy like that
chess board configurations
I googled en passant and found this video. Holy hell
New response just dropped
Actual zombie
call the exorcist
Exorcist goes on vacation
Never comes back
@@FumiTheSillyGirl*bishop, this is knightmare fuel
I did this in a school competition once, the look on the opponents face was just priceless 🤣 someone who actually plays chess competitively had to explain to him that the move was okay and he still didnt believe it 🤣
I love personal stories like that 😂
same shit happened to my friend, he is at 2051 elo rn and he decided to join school's chess tournament to mess with ppl when he got to finals and used en passant the other guy raged and it took a whole god damn day to explain the situation
I almost got kicked from my school tournament for en passanting
@@TbV-st8efgive us the story
My friend played this against me once, but he decided to just undo his move because he felt it was unfair to do a move I didn't know about and therefore wouldn't have been able to predict.
Friend's a keeper.
@@shanblues7257 fr
Finally, i no longer need to google en passant
Finally, I no longer need to say ‘holy hell’!
@@cloverisfan818 Holy hell.
Yo when magic and chess collab
In which patch did they buff pawn?
europe patch
French revolution patch, verison 1.0.5
I didn’t think that move was legal, I thought the game was gagging me, I learned how to play almost 30 years ago and am just learning this move this year
it's because chess is a stupid board game, and mother fuckers can't just stick to simple god damn rules.
You likely did not learn it from a professional source. This move is all over competitive chess. People who do not play chess competively should not be trusted to teach you how to play the game.
HOLY HELL!
Wait lol I think I saw this exact comment in another vid
Holy hell
@@shiningeditedmoon that’s the only legal response to en passant
Google en passant
@@bruhsauce644 holy hell
en passant: you shall not pass
As a kid, I was playing en passant wrong, ty for this video, i've learned something.
A croissant?
A beer
No it means a drunk Passed out Aunt.
@@mullaleo85 no my aunt passed on
Just found this 3 days ago. I thought I had learned all the moves 😲
How have I completely missed this for so many years???
I was lucky to learn about this move in chess club in high school.
Of all the games I've played against others since then, I think only one of them knew what it was.
Granted I've only been in the position to do it maybe 5 of those games in the last 10 years, but everyone who didn't know about it raged.
All it took was showing them proof online that it was a legal move. They weren't happy about it and I was okay with allowing them to recall that move afterwards but it definitely got hairy
On my way to my first victory against Capablanca and I’m now here tryna come to come to terms with what went wrong.
"Teleports behind your pawn"
"Nothing personal kid."
Some while ago I finally got a winning endgame against Nelson (the bot) with only king and pawns, one thing to note is that I thought en passant is a glitch cus I never heard about it. Then the next thing you know I got hit by the en passant so badly and lost the closest game I ever gotten to beat this stupid bot
nelson is a bit,ch easy af try antonio 1500 .
Keep trying to beat him you will eventually
This just happened to me and i thought the guy was hacking lol.
Do you know how to do it in online chess? There's no option to let me do it.
@@pauliewalnuts100 there will be an option if your pawn is in the fifth square and the other pawn just skipped one square on their first move. if you move any other piece in that turn, you wond be able to do en passant anymore.
I was watching game review and they showed that move , and i thought it was a glitch or computer malfunction
Holy Hell it's real
Apreciate the slow-mo analysis
3 years playing chess and just found out this move exists after playing online. The fric
Quick:make ur pawn 2 squares above ur pawn, if the enemy pawn makes 2 squares (must be first move) then move above the pawn
Thank you
But if that pawn move front of our pawn then what we do 00:34
This just happened to me and I was so confused lol
En Passant is literally just *teleports behind you*
First i thought how random this move is but now it makes sense
it is a bit random as any piece should be able to do en passant on a double moving pawn. not just another pawn. That would have made so much more sense from the first day when I learned the double move. It's just 2 moves. You could just ban the double move and there would be no change to the game, and no need to passant
@@assaqwwq "there would be no change to the game"
@@artrisk1304 "context"
@@assaqwwq the game would be so boring come on bro are you serious
@@artrisk1304 I'm just saying the en passant rule doesn't make 100% sense "bro" and that anything should be able to capture a double moved pawn. Will removing the double move slow down the game, yea... Will it make it boring? No.
Cmon, stop going to extremes for the sake of argument..
Pov: you googled en passant
Holy hell
Monkey sees action
_Neuron activation_
"Nothing personal kid"
My brother's pissed because I castled and promoted. Let's see what happens when I break this out in a game!
lol
It's literally one of the first things i learned at the beginning of playing chess, when i was learning about the pawns and the movements of pieces.. and my elo is pretty bad so I can't imagine a player of more than a month not knowing about this🙁
I think that En Passant has became so popularized just by the internet that people who don't even play chess still know about this. This video was released 3 years ago so probably back then En Passant was not as popular.
@@sohamvaidya7138 yeahh i was learning from the internet in high school and it wasn't hard to find, but thankfully now it's even easier😂
Thank you!
Only now figuring this out, this changes everything.
This happened to me in possibly the best game I've played. Couldn't believe my eyes. Still think it's an injustice.
I agree, and trust a French to invent such a move 😂
@@amyv. As he explains in the video, chess was !"#!%! boring until en passant was implemented. Games just kept being ended in draws, since pawns could easily be set such a way no one could do anything.
It's your own fault for not knowing the rules of the game.
can't wait to confuse my fellow 500 elo players with this
been playing chess for about a year this happened to me two times in a month and i thought the app was surely glitching now realising how rare it was to happen is crazy
If both players agree not to use en passant, then should our initial pawn move be only one square from the beginning or still two? I’m sure there’s a better way to ask this. 🙂
As he explained in the video, it was to remove the boring gamebreaking advantage of moving two ahead, which causes tons of remis games. Boring and repetitive. But having a forced 1 only move works, but it still simplifies the game a lot and causes repetitive gameplay.
Since you're no longer following standard chess rules by disallowing en passant, you could choose which of both
why in the fuckness of fuck would both players agree to NOT use the rule?
That is the most braindead retarded refusal to follow the official rules.
I use it against peoples ego. They can’t resist showing you they know it.
Wdym ego, it's forced
Forced move bro, The Chess Council has found you guilty of not committing mandatory En Passant.
_Gained: _*_Lifetime ban from Chess_*
@@konbkob4156 its not
Since I'm a beginner, I use the assisted mode and this move was suggested to me. I've heard of En Passant for years but I never really looked into it. I don't think that it comes very often in play though.
Yea same here. I honestly think the move takes away from strategy of pawn play to be honest. Just learning the basics around it but it just seems too offset from the actual game to make any sense.
Seems like a way to keep strong pawn players in check lol
Didn't know this actually exists. How often does chess get patched? And where do I read the patch notes?
En passant capture exists since 16th century, at least. This is one of the rules that *define* the modern chess together with the optional pawn move of two steps, the modern move of queen, the modern move of bishop, castling and promotion of pawns to queen, rook, bishop and knight.
is this only available after they did the second space move? meaning, do you have to take advantage of en passant in immediately the next move? or can you play other pieces unrelated to the two pawns and use that move as long as they didn't move?
Answering for other readers as I assume you've found out. Yes, you have to do it on the turn after the pawn moved 2 spaces. If you choose to move another piece instead of doing an en passant, you forfeit the en passant opportunity.
Can we do if pawn had already made 1 move and then 1 more move
@@somshekharpatil270 No the pawn has to move two squares in its first turn. Only then is En Passant applicable.
@@somshekharpatil270 no
En passant is forced if u have en passant available u play it. Those are the rules
I don’t know who taught it to me, but I’ve known about it for basically as long as I have played chess.
You can en passant multiple times in a game right? Botez explained it weird and now I'm confused
It can happen anytime the opponent tries to avoid your pawns by moving 2 squares, so only if they have never moved. If you could have captured his pawn if he only moved 1 square, you can en passant
@@ArguablyTheWorst Thanks. Botez said "you can do it when a pawn moves two squares for the first time" so I got confused
@@lightlysal on the opposing pawns first moves
Another rule which he missed is that you could only use en passant in the rows of 4 & 5😐
That's how I was taught as well!
Doesn't that just follow. Like your enemy has to do the two-square jump he can only do as the first move of the pawn and your pawn has to stand next to it, so you automatically always stand on the 4th/5th row.
Whaaaaattt! I was looking up Japanese chess (Shogi) and it made subtle mention of this move. I had no clue this was a thing.
This is the only move I've been taught by the adults around - who were very competitive at chess. For a long time I didn't understand why people kept telling me I wasn't a beginner/joking when I told them I was. Obviously I was, I just knew this very particular thing they didn't hear of very often
Holy hell
I'm playing with my senior in college and he suddenly did this move, I almost cried in confusion
0:52 What if the white pawn was on h6 and black moves to g5 ??? Is en passant possible then?
Someone please tell
In less than 2 min...
HALLELUJAH!
I thank you because I didn't even knew of this move when I saw and heard it I didn't understood on how to do the move
When you have the opportunity to en passant and not do it then if it's your time to move again can you still do it or nah? Please someone answer!
no. you can only capture en passant as soon as you get the opportunity. if you decline the en passant you cannot do it later
I figured this was how it was done but,
1) I did not know “en passant” meant “in passing” so thanks for that little bit of trivia 🙂👍
2) I can’t imagine a practical situation where I might use this move🤔
But I don’t play chess that often. I’m trying to get back into it though😅
Man I taught myself to play 30 years ago when I was 5 using a $10 plastic set and small book I got at one of those scholastic school book fairs. I dont think this was covered in that book. I never really took it serious and I've really just casually played on my phone occasionally and I just learned about this today.
Thank you Saul Goodman.
Won't the opposite teams' pawns, that are still in their starting position, be able to attack my pawn, too, though? Or can pawns only attack after they've made their first move?
I apologize if my question seems as though it has an obvious answer. but I literally just started learning chess today.
the first move of a pawn can be,1 move forward, 2 moves forward or 1 attack to the sides. You can only capture en pessant style if your opponent does 2 moves forward as they are actually only 1 move at a time but sped up. after the en passant move, you can then attack with any of the pieces normally. but you cant stop en passant with another en passant, as that is only 1 single attack and not 2 moves.
Thank you very much.
I had forgotten how to do that.
Going to practice this with Martin
isn’t this possible only in the middle i got taught you could only make this move in middle not in a6, g6 etc.
It can be done anywhere as long as the pawns first move is 2 squares
@@Annie-mk5nm ok, thanks
You should have mentioned that en passant is a forced move, you have to do it if you can!
It's not forced. You don't have to do it.
r/AnarchyChess
no, it's not forced.
It's not forced, but en passant gives such a massive psychological advantage, that it might as well be.
Absolutely a forced move. If you don't make an en passant move when you have the ability to, The Chess Council will find you guilty and ban you from Chess for your lifetime.
Holy hell
For years now I've tried to understand this rule and got it horribly wrong. Thanks for finally allowing me to understand it, mate!
I always thought it was because you cut off their supply lines since they moved too quickly lmao
Thank you so much
this move has started to get popular
Can the black pawn only be captured by a white pawn in an En Passant? Or can a bishop do the same thing? Thanks!
en passant can be done by either player but only on the turn directly after their opponent moves their pawn two spaces next to yours. bishops cannot en passant .
I don't think the opposite pawn should capture the pawn
I think it should be an opportunity for the pawn to take advantage of its first move to avoid capture
Disagreed. It’s good that the other player always gets an opportunity to capture it.
so, all the pawns can move 2 squares at their first move, and you can capture these "2 square jumpers" with the "en passant move" if he lands next to your pawn, just like he would've moved only 1 square, but only if you do it as you next move, you can't do it later, after you moved something else... Am I getting this right?
Yep
After 30 years i finally learned it now.
Its like when liger zero breaks out attack form and destroys the other zoid
Had to come for a refresh course
dude I completely forget about this move every time its crazy
Thanks!
Rules are rules, but following the rules is what some ignorants don't do. I have played against people in my childhood who didn't believe that the queens face each other on the board. He instead placed them both right side of their kings.
If we just let the pawn go without doing the en passent thing,can we?
Yes, it's not forced.
Had no idea this was a move; imma use it to my advantage!!
If it only moved one square is it still possible to do a en pessant?
My classmates do this and they say it only works if the pawn is on ur side and in middle rank only are they true or not
careful, the key word here is "RIGHT NEXT to your pawn". That is, if the oponent pawn moves two squares, but lands behind your pawn, then you can not take using en passant.
Is it only applicable to double tile move or as long as it's first move fall right next to the opposing pawn?
Double tile only
another thing to mention: en passant is A CHOICE. it is not forced, idk why people are saying its forced
(unless its just a lame joke)
en passant is FORCED. this is also known as the 34th rule of chess. for more info, look up chess rule 34
@@cube_20 I don’t understand what you are saying cuz it’s not forced pls sent me a link on where did you get that from
new response just dropped
Not taking en passant = brick your PIPI
@@cube_20actual troll
I finally understand it!
One of the boy used this rule against me and i remember first time i was like tf
when this was first used against me in a school tournament I had to ask one of the teachers wether that was a real move or not lol. that's how I remember that rule.
Is this move once per game or whenever the pawns are in position?
It’s whenever. However, if you don’t take opportunity and instead play another move, it’s too late. It’s only allowed just after your opponent pushes their pawn two spaces.
What the heck, after playing so many games, I didn't know this, scratching my head I came watch to understand.
Can only a pawn cut a pawn by this move not the queen or else
only pawn, as mentioned in the video
I saw this in videos, and thought it was a lag or glitch
Holy hell!
Everyone for black it is allowed in 4th rank nd for white 5th rank only..
thanks
“En passant was invented solely to screw with online chess developers” - me
Imagine being in chess club back in elementary school and being the only one knowing this move