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The pawn bug

Hi,

Sometimes, When you play with pawn two forward, the pawn is going one forward!!!

Check that game plz.

Learning the rules prior to playing could help. See „en passant“.
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

This rule was introduced after the double move was, to prevent pawns making a double move from being able to safely pass a pawn that is guarding the square in front of it.

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