I still don't think en passant is a good rule

So sue me.

You don't think pawns should be able to take other pawns with disregard for a two-square jump?  Or you think that ALL pieces should enjoy the same ability?

If it's the second thing, I'd be totally down with that.  :-)

Former. It's a damn stupid rule. Don't remind me how, when I was rated 1400, I lost that 3 pawn up endgame against an 800 player because of En Passant.

In my opinion: the more complicated the better.

One time a guy checkmated me with his queen. Women.

And I don't even want to mention castling.

Well that pawn, need,s all the help it can get,

a hard road to travel ,

Hey don't give me some sob story about the plight of the pawn.

Wow I never realised how many amusing adds I was missing.

The two-square pawn move does affect opening theory, even with en passant (just look at the start position of the French Defense:  after 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5, it's White to move, but if pawns can only move one square it's 1. e3 e6 2. e4 d6 3. d3 d5 4. d4 and it's Black to move after almost twice as long--so maybe speeding up the game with the two-move rule is a good idea).

Yea pawn , power

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Sarcasm should be an offense punishable by twenty years in the chess brig.

sorry :)  'twas good natured.

Sure it was....

I'm sorry I overreacted. I'm a bit stressed. I sent Tonydal a friend request and he hasn't replied.

:(

Diddums.

It , s a hard lesson to learn , 

Maybe it got killed en route.

Or maybe I just never sent it. Who knows? I'm taking a lot of amphetamines at this point.