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What kind of phenomenal losers do you all have to be to give a probable child, or someone brand new to chess, any kind of a snotty, snippy, snarky answer?

Why not use freedom of speech to promote Lichess, instead of using it to sabotage Lichess?

Give your conceded, uncivilized, and snobby heads a long, hard, shake, and put your keyboards down until you can figure out a way to use them in a way that makes others glad to be here.

if en passant was not possible, one player could just close the position. The result would be draw.
If I were a hacker, I'd be after money, rather than making illegal moves against 1200 rated players.

It's easy to blame things you don't understand on "hacking", but you won't improve that way.
I have answered the exact same question before:
lichess.org/forum/lichess-feedback/move-didnt-register-correctly#3
Since this is the same situation, I will give the same answer, which is equally fitting here:

A long time ago pawns were now allowed to move two spaces on the first turn, and needed two moves to get from the second rank to the fourth.
Then the rule was introduced that allowed pawns to move two squares on their first move, but that created some changes people don't like; it allowed backwards pawns on their second rank to slip past the pawn blocking them without risk of being captured, and chess players did not like that.
Because of this, the en passant rule was introduced, which allows an pawn that would be able to capture the advancing pawn had at advanced only one spot to still be able to capture it if it makes a double move, but only on the turn immediately afterward.
In the official rules (www.fide.com/fide/handbook.html?id=171&view=article), the en passant rule is in section 3.7(d):

"A pawn occupying a square on the same rank as and on an adjacent file to an opponent’s pawn which has just advanced two squares in one move from its original square may capture this opponent’s pawn as though the latter had been moved only one square. This capture is only legal on the move following this advance and is called an ‘en passant’ capture."

You may also want to read the wikipedia page on en passant:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_passant
And lichess has a lesson to practice it:
lichess.org/learn#/15
Bottom line: That was a legal move by the rules of chess.
Good luck in your future games, and I hope you will get a chance to use this move for your benefit.
@Onyx_Chess , I like how you said put your keyboards down, because people don’t use separate keyboards anymore 😝. That being said, don’t be idiots and don’t make fun of a beginner who didn’t know that this wack rule existed.
i don't understand number 16 -- "people don't use separate keyboards anymore"?

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