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How do you en passant? Someone did it to me but I can never get the pawn to do it. Do you need a paid account for this?
Apr 23, 2024
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#2
You don't need a paid account, I don't know how to do it but it sometimes happens to me
Apr 23, 2024
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#3
En passant is only for a pawn’s first move. If your opponent moves his pawn two spaces for its first move and your pawn is on the space directly next to its new space, you can tap the space diagonal to your pawn (behind his pawn) and take his pawn. It is taking it off of a space it is not on.
Apr 23, 2024
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#5
Sweetcheeks provided a good description.
Another way to memorize it is to understand logic behind why it exists. The special movement a pawn has on its starting square cannot be used to avoid the opportunity for a player to capture with their pawn, so a player can still opt to move their pawn the two squares but then the other player is given the right (for their next move only) to capture it with their own pawn as if it had only moved one square.