Poll of the Day > No cheating, Do you know what these Chess rules mean?

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I knew castling, but honestly I learned about En Passant about two days ago.
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I had known both but hadn't heard en passant in a long time
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I still remember En Passant because my dad would say it loudly and in a dumb french accent every time he would use the move.
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Yeah, I looked them up just now

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Wow, I just looked up en passant and never even dreamed something like that can happen(and I was runner up in my middle school school wide chess tournament).
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There's been a chess streamer whose videos are showing up in my recommended who used en passant in a video I remember watching... but I still don't remember what it means. Castling I remember from when I first learned the game.
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lihlih posted...

Wow, I just looked up en passant and never even dreamed something like that can happen(and I was runner up in my middle school school wide chess tournament).

I was surprised to learn about it when I was like 7 or so. I had been playing chess for years but nobody had ever introduced the move to me until I finally got my own chessboard and it was listed right there in the rule book.
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Ya, I knew them from ages ago
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Not a clue.
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Never heard of En Passant only Castling which I used in almost every game I ever played.
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Yes Ive heard of both because I learned chess through reading a little book. Also learned some things through Chessmaster, a computer game.

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I knew both, but en passant comes up so rarely that it's understandable that it would be forgotten by most.
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i actually really recently was researching chess rules for the novel i am writing lol
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TheWitchMorgana posted...

i actually really recently was researching chess rules for the novel i am writing lol

Some sort of chess manga esc book where the loser goes to the shadow realm?!

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J_Dawg983 posted...

TheWitchMorgana posted...

i actually really recently was researching chess rules for the novel i am writing lol

Some sort of chess manga esc book where the loser goes to the shadow realm?!

haha that'd be fun but it's just a character who likes chess pretty much
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Yeah, those rules were in the rule book that came with the first chess set I ever had, one of those cheap plastic sets that comes in a flimsy cardboard box.

The last rules I learned were the three-fold repetition and fifty-move rule. Neither were mentioned in that rule book. The only drawing situations it mentioned were stalemates and players agreeing to a draw. The ability to claim a draw under certain situations wasn't specified. So I never learned them until I played the Chessmaster PC game.
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I know about Castling, but this is the first time I've heard of En Passant.
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.... I'm surprised there are people who know what en passant is, but not castling.
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If you want to see some good Chess commentary on Youtube I recommend Agadmator
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Lokarin posted...

Agadmator

Thanks I will look into that. I always played Go, and want to get into Chess more. So I am more into the basics now. I know I will regret saying this... But so far Chess is WORLDS easier than Go.
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Both. I played a lot of chess as a child.
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I only absolutely knew castling. I also know what En Passant means, but I had to look it up before I remembered that I knew it. That is, I knew the mechanic but not the name.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ad4n3FRnQQ" data-time="

There is En Passant if you were curios.
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Un pissant?
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i know en passant, and it's a stupid rule
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I know castling but never heard of en passant before now.
I'm not super huge into chess though.
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waterdeepchu posted...

I only absolutely knew castling. I also know what En Passant means, but I had to look it up before I remembered that I knew it. That is, I knew the mechanic but not the name.

Me too. I feel like castling is very well known. People probably know en passant, but not the name specifically. Maybe less known is that you can castle either side (king or queen).

My favorite chess moves are pinning and forking. A good pin or fork is so awesome.
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I know Castling, and I've heard of En Passant, though I don't remember what it is at the moment.

I don't really play chess, though. I'm aware of how the pieces move, and I love the musical, but that's about it.
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Nope.
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Isnt the Passant one where the Pawn under a specific circumstance move diagonal by one spot?

Castling i I know is when you change the positions of a Bishop and your King. I think it has to be before you move the Bishop though and in the same row or whatever.

It's been over a decade since I've played chess, so I've probably forgotten them.
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lihlih posted...

Wow, I just looked up en passant and never even dreamed something like that can happen(and I was runner up in my middle school school wide chess tournament).

Really? I was on chess team in middle school and we were all taught en passant. In actual play, though, you could easily play many games and never see it since it has to happen in a specific circumstance and has to be capitalized on immediately or its not applicable.
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