I think I need to play Fritz & Chester. I had to look up en passant. I didn't know you could do that!
I'm not much better! I knew you could do it, but I had no idea why. The program does a terrific job explaining it: apparently it was a late development in chess history to allow the pawn two spaces on a first move. But they didn't want you to be able to do it
in order to avoid being captured. So if the opposing pawn
could have captured your pawn had it only been moved one space, then it is capture is legal when you move two spaces also. Tricky.
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