hello , i am new here. are imgur links allowed so i can post screenshot ?
i was playing a normal 10+0 classical , i put my pawn on e4 which there was no threat , then the opponent took him out and it showed fxe3
wow i did not know that . that has to be the lamest move in chess imo. well thank you for explaining .
Perfectly logical - how did your pawn get from e2 to e4? Via e3. And while doing that double move, the other pawn made it's move, intercepting on e3.
Back in the middle ages pawns could only move one square at a time. Allowing a double-move was only possible by also making en passant legal.
yeah but in chess , you can only move after your opponent moves, doesnt make sense to allow a rule were you can take a piece from a previous move . whoever invented that must have been losing and said something like " my board , my rules"
Of course it does make sense... double move is th same as moving twice the pawn one square per move and its only to make chess faster since because ALL double moves can be made as single moves without changing anything in the reality of the chessboard the only thing you lose is extra time for you to make two single square moves (and your opponent ) instead of a double one. and Also for it to be the same you can only do a double move in the initial position and there has to be enpassant (because if you would do one signle move and then an other single move the opponent could take on your first single move so allowing a double move would be cheating but having en passant neutralizes that also en passant can only happen exactly after you did the double move and the opponents pawn is next to yours so if he doesnt take exactly after you do the double move he cant take it with en passant in the future exactly as if you would make a single square move he wouldnt take you and you do an other single square move again and now obviously he cant take you anymore )
@SlowRetardGenius That's like saying "You should be able to take a rook on any square he passed while moving, because the only reason he can move multiple squares at a time is to speed up the game. He actually made all those tiny one-square moves!"
En passant is necessary because otherwise pawns are too overpowered:
Make sure to check
it.lichess.org/learn#/15, and all the other fundamentals are there too for you to practice.
