En passant — a lesser known chess move

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4 points·reimertz··5 comments

It is somewhat easy to forget for a casual player (such as myself) but I'm not sure that it's really unfair... it seems to occur just infrequently enough that I don't always take advantage of it. But when my opponent does it to me and I wasn't expecting it, I see it as my own fault. It's simply a rule of chess.

EDIT: I see now the title has been changed to "En passant — a lesser known chess move". I replied when the title said it was an "Unfairly unknown" move

Sorry for the confusion. I used the wrong wording.

I am not a professional chess player by any means but have played against a lot of people over the years and never seen this move and that is what I wanted to convey with my title.

That's interesting. What's your rating? I think I probably encounter it more in chess.com post-analysis of my games than in actual games. i.e. the computer says "you made X move, but you should have done Y!" where Y was capturing a pawn en passant.

Yeah, I have honestly just played irl games so that is probably why. If I would guess, my rating is probably shit. :)

I feel like often times when you see that the move is possible it can cost you the game. You get tempted to go through with it because its unique without actually checking if it is good in the situation or not. At least that's my view on it as a lower rated player.

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