Broken field. Capturing en passant is a move of just one pawn. Is it possible to capture other pieces on the pass?

In this lesson we will learn two more rules of chess. They were specially taken into a separate topic, since they are not always immediately remembered by beginning chess players.

We have already said that the king is the most important piece on the chessboard, and therefore he needs constant protection. Usually at the beginning of the game the fight starts in the center. Exactly where the king is located. Therefore, the question arises of where to hide it from potential shelling of the opponent’s pieces. The answer is to castle!

Castling is a move in chess in which the king jumps over one square to the right or left, and the rook covers it by standing on an adjacent square.

Castling can be done by both white and black. Castling can be short or long. The short one is made towards the kingside, the long one towards the queenside. Visually, how white and black castling is shown in the diagrams below.

In this way, the king will be reliably protected, and his safety can be of less concern.

Castling can be done if the following rules are observed:

1. Neither the king nor the rook with which castling is being made have made a single move before.
2. There are no other pieces between the king and the rook.
3. The king has not been declared in check. That is, if you are declared in check, then castling cannot be done at that moment.
4. The square over which the king jumps and the square onto which he becomes cannot be penetrated by the enemy pieces.

Castling is considered one move, despite the fact that two pieces take part in it. Castling can only be done once per game.

An en passant capture is a move in which a pawn can hit an opponent's pawn if it has jumped over the captured square.
As you remember from lesson 3, with its first move a pawn can go two squares forward, that is, jump over one square. If this square is penetrated by the opponent's pawn, then it can capture.

Visually it looks like this:

Thus, the black pawn hit the white one and at the same time stood on the beaten square, and not on the square where the white pawn stood, as happens with ordinary attacks. In this case, you can capture on the pass only on the next move, otherwise this right is then lost.

Are you sure you play chess according to modern, official rules?

Look at what misconceptions amateurs have regarding the rules of chess; perhaps they exist in your game too.

White has a queen on the board, but that doesn't stop the pawns from becoming queens.

1) The pawn, when it reaches the last rank, can only transform into a piece that was previously eaten. This misconception has its roots in Italy. It was there that they played by these rules until the 19th century. For example, if only the bishop was eaten, then the pawn can turn exclusively into a bishop, and if all the pieces are intact and on the board, then the pawn remains a pawn on the last rank. In modern rules of chess, a pawn can become any piece, that is, if your 5 pawns reached the end, then you can have at least 5 queens or 5 knights, etc., at your discretion.

2) The chess player persistently moves his king to the last rank of the chessboard because he thinks that by reaching it he will receive a pawn. You can move the king or other pieces on any squares of the board as much as you like, but you do not receive pawns under any circumstances.

3) Many beginners try to put a check on the enemy king at the beginning of the game, thinking that if the check is made, then the king will not be able to castle. But that's not true if the king did not make a move, but simply defended against check, then he retains the right to castling.

4) Children who do not understand the concept of checkmate well simply eat the king and think that they have won the game. They need to explain that you can't eat the king, if he is in check, and the opponent does not see this and makes another move, then his mistake must be corrected. The same applies to moving the king onto a broken square.

5) Most amateurs are not familiar with the rule of taking on the pass, although it appeared back in 1490. What is an en route capture? This is when a pawn moves two squares across a broken square, which is under attack from an opponent’s pawn, and the opponent can take your pawn with his next move. His pawn is moved to the captured square, and your eaten pawn is removed from the board. Capturing en passant is only possible directly in response to a pawn's move across the captured square; on subsequent moves, pawns cannot be captured en passant.

If you have any questions regarding, you can ask your question in the comments, we will definitely answer it.

Today we’ll talk about the rules of castling, capturing on an aisle, promoting a pawn.

Every chess player encounters these rules more than once during a game.

But let's start in order:

The castling rules were described by me earlier

It is only worth repeating when castling cannot be done:

1. The king or rook moved
2. Pieces standing between the king or rook interfere
3. Shah declared king
4. There is a broken field on the king's path

Even the strongest chess players sometimes forget to take an en passant. This unusual move was invented as if to confuse chess players who were already struggling to remember all the rules.

It’s impossible to write much about the promotion of a pawn, but this is definitely the dream of every little infantryman: to go to the end of the board and transform into ANY chess piece except the king. In total, for example, you may have 9 queens, or, for example, 10 rooks, etc.

So, an en passant capture can only be done with a pawn; it’s easier and better to watch a visual video about this:

Just a month and a half ago, all countries and continents celebrated. This year it was celebrated for the fifty-first time. And until now, interest in this game has not waned. But what is chess? Is it a sport, an art or a game? One of the opinions says that this is, after all, a science, the basis of which is logic, because chess is a triumph of reason, which can also give aesthetic pleasure. In this article we will try to understand what the concept of “taking on the pass” means in this interesting game. How is this done and what does it give the chess player?

Broken field

Before we figure out what it is to capture a pawn on an aisle, let’s get acquainted with one more term in chess. The broken field has a direct, direct bearing on our question. This square is what is attacked by the enemy's pawn vertically in front of your pawn, which is in the initial position. You can make a move through a broken field. But this is exactly how the opponent gets the right to take the pawn in the same way as if it had been moved only one square.

One field or two?

So, back to our question - taking on the pass. What do the rules of chess say? Capturing on a captured square means that the pawn has a special move, thanks to which it has the right to take the opponent’s pawn, which has been moved to two squares at once. It should be noted that what is under attack is not the square on which the second pawn stopped, but the one that it managed to cross. The first pawn is precisely on this beaten or crossed square and completes the capture exactly as if the enemy’s pawn had moved only one square - one square.

These are the rules

This situation can only arise when the pawn is on certain ranks: for white - on the fifth, for black - on the fourth. And the square that the enemy's pawn crosses is under attack. Taking a pawn from an opponent is only possible if this is done immediately as soon as it is moved two squares.

A capture on the pass in chess (these rules have been discussed for a long time) is lost if it is not made by a counter move. And this will happen with every new batch.

If you delve a little into history, you can find out that capturing on the pass and breaking the square became established in chess six centuries ago. And this was at the same time as the rule according to which it was allowed to make the first move with a pawn, and not one, but two squares forward. The rationale for this rule is very simple: a pawn cannot move absolutely freely, provided that the passage field is under complete control of the enemy, without fear of being “eaten.”

The same important move

The most important. An en passant capture in chess is a special move by one pawn, the most important one, in which it can hit the opponent's pawn, which has been moved two squares. After all, it is known that a pawn can make its first move in the game two squares forward. That is, she jumps over one field.

On the “line of fire” it turns out to be completely different from the square where the second pawn stopped, but precisely the one that was crossed by it. The first pawn will complete its capture precisely on this crossed square, just as in the case in which the opponent's pawn moved only one square. This has already been mentioned a little higher.

So. Visually it will look like this:

A black pawn hits a white pawn, while standing on the beaten square, and not where the white pawn was (this happens with normal attacks). It is possible to capture en passant only on the next move, because later this right does not apply.

Some conditions and rules that must be followed

On the aisle, only the pawn is allowed to be captured. Despite the fact that the queen moves on two squares vertically, it is not allowed to capture pieces on the pass.

No piece other than a pawn can capture on an en passant. This, one might say, is an exclusive right, and it belongs exclusively to the pawn.

The opportunity to hit on the pass is used to move this very pawn. In other words, the next move. And nothing else. Otherwise, the opportunity is lost.

Since there are as many as eight pawns, it is theoretically possible to capture en passant as many as eight times. Only this applies to different figures.

And it is absolutely not necessary to hit on the pass. That is? There are situations when taking a pass turns out to be a serious mistake. What does it mean?

Taking on the pass. Playing effectively does not mean that it is effective

Almost any beginning chess player is sure that an en passant capture will be a very bright start to the game. But we should not forget that this, like all the others that follow, is just one of many other moves. He is no worse or better than others. And sometimes it can be a huge mistake, just like any other move.

A striking example of this will be the following photo. So:

It clearly shows that Black made a move. And White was tempted by the opportunity to take on the pass.

Unfortunately, White has lost his rook. The game was lost.

In this particular case, taking the pass was a grave mistake. And there was no need to do this. It was possible not to take the pawn, but to play somehow differently, thereby trying to preserve the chances of winning.

Any chess player - both beginner and professional - should always remember that in this game a move that is spectacular, or simply beautiful, will not in every case be the most correct and best. You must always remember all the mentioned rules when capturing en passant, during every chess game, because otherwise you may encounter the most ridiculous and not very pleasant surprises, or even lose altogether.

Often, inexperienced chess players with a superficial knowledge of chess were surprised after the opponent’s next move and began to argue, arguing that when captured, the capturing piece or pawn always stands on the square where the opponent’s captured piece was located. And then the opponent takes a pawn, which seems to have not been under attack at all, and even places his pawn on a different square than where the beaten pawn was located. “This breaks the rules! This can’t be done,” inexperienced players are indignant.

But it’s possible! Everything is according to the rules. Subject to several conditions.

Broken chess field

As you know, from its initial position the pawn can move one square or two squares forward at the player’s discretion.

It happens that a situation arises when, when moving two squares forward, a pawn crosses a square attacked by an opponent's pawn.

The attacked square through which the pawn moves is in this case called broken field.

Crossing a broken square is not prohibited by the rules of chess, but in this case the opponent has the right to take this pawn. With such a capture, the capturing pawn moves to the captured square, which the opponent’s pawn “jumped over,” and the enemy pawn that “ran forward” is removed from the board. Let's look at an example:

White pawn b2 has the right to make the move b2-b4. In doing so, it will cross square b3, which is attacked by the black pawn c4. b3 is a broken square.

The black pawn on c4 is capable of capturing en passant.

The black pawn from c4 moves to the b3 square, the white pawn from b4, which crossed the beaten square, is removed from the board. The diagram shows the final position.

Only the pawn has the right to capture on the pass, and only in relation to the pawn; this right does not apply to other pieces. Chess arbiters will fine you if you break this rule in an official competition.

Do I need to pick it up at the drive-thru?

Taking on the pass is not necessary, you can take it, you can not take it - it all depends on the specific situation. However, it should be remembered that it can only be performed in response to the crossing of the beaten field by the opponent’s “infantryman”. Then you will no longer be able to capture the pawn that “ran” forward on the pass. Watch the video above to reinforce what you've learned.