What is en passant?

What do you know about en passant? Do you know what it mean in chess? 

First, I tell you that is a move. If you don't know what is that move, you'll be surprised when you know. Like below:

Yes, as you can see, the pawn actually eats the blank space. If you have read my blogs, you'll know when did chess start. En passant rule starts from the 15th century (1600-1699) Back to the drawing board. 
It prevents the pawn to get away from other pieces (sorry, not the above chess game) without the risk of getting captured.

Like when a pawn is besides you:

You can use the en passant rule, it is fun when you use the move in real chess right? Your friends or your family members might argue that why would you move this? They may think that's illegal to move. 

The move is helpful! But use it when you need it. The move text example is exd6e.p., the e.p. means en passant, and the exd6 means your pawn eats d6. Once the pawn moves e5, it shows exd6 because en passant is like a invisible move, but visible confusion.

Note: Only the pawn can use the en passant rule. 

Unusual moves featuring en passant: 

h5+ Kh6 move 1

Nxe6+ g5 move 2, mate in 1 (if featuring en passant. If you don't move en passant, not sure if the analysis shows 'missed wins')

hxg6e.p.# Checkmate! If someone uses this I'm so glad.

Note 2: If you knew this before. Yes, I copied this from Wikipedia. But I'm giving you more information

Sometimes, variants doesn't feature this rule (e.g. Dragonchess because they use dragon models). 
And so, Asian chess variants can't use this move---the Asian variants' pawn moves one square at a time only. (Fun fact: pawns from shogi (Japanese chess, Game of Generals), xiangqi (Chinese chess, Elephant chess) and jangg (Korean chess) can't capture diagonally. As a Asian, I know xiangqi, and pawns can only move forward)

(Note 3: Chaturanga is like the Asian chess variants (I thought that at first) but that's not. I'll post a variants blog later).

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