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Rules of Chess: En passant capture FAQ. Answers to some questions about the en passant capture rule.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Anonymous wrote on Mon, Feb 16, 2004 08:42 PM UTC:Good ★★★★

The pawn capturing actually moves diagonally, as it would have had it
captured the captured pawn if it only moved once.

Okay, that may have been confusing, so picture this:

A black pawn sits on d4, and white advances a pawn from c2 to c4. Black
captures by pretending the white pawn only moved once, so the pawn would
move diagonally to c3, and then take the white pawn on c4 off of the
board. (Note: white always starts on the first and second files and black
always starts on the eighth and seventh files).