En Passant isn't really that complicated.


Let's say, you have a Pawn that is still in the same position you start on. And let's say, your opponent moved one of his Pawn's up, to take it within the next two turns. Well, you decide you want to prevent that, and move up your 2 spaces. He then moves to the square under your Pawn, just like if you had landed right before him. Bare in mind, he can 

only

 do that on his turn right after you move up two spaces, if he doesn't you are safe.

I think he understands how to perform en passant, he just doesn't get why this move allows players to "side step" if you like, instead of moving to the position of the taken piece.

I'm no expert on this, but it seems to me this move is to compensate for the fact that a pawn moving from it's inital position can move two spaces. If an opposition pawn is in place to use en passant, then, effectively, the moving pawn has jumped past the opposition pawn. 

In the game that is an unfair advantage. It allows defending pawns to simply walk past an attacking pawn. I think en passant is simply a compromise to negate an unfair advantage.

It's allowed in tournaments, and adds more strategy to the game. I see no problem with the logic to it, because a Pawn is basically the weakest piece and therefore "inferior" to a normal soldier.


Also think of it like this.


Your racing someone, your on rocks they are the smooth road. Your coming upbeside them, running the opposite way. He falls right beside you, are you gonna stay on your rough road if the rules state are allowed to switch positions if your opponent falls?

I don't get why so many people don't understand En-pessant. It is spelt with an E by the way not an A. I think it is french for "in passing"

It works like the people ^^^^ said. Something funny is that if you play an oponnent that has only heard of the rule but doesn't understand it you can cheat the game around. ^_^

lol yeah, that is the funny part about it. People never understood how helpful it can be in some situations. Sometimes it even makes me hesitate to move up two spaces, allowing them the chance to perform En Passant.

In the original game of chess, pawns could only move one square. Allowing them to move two on the first go speeds up the opening, BUT en passant means that it doesn't give an advantage - you can take pawns as if they had only moved one square like in the old game.