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Noun Concept
Categories: Chess terminology, Articles with short description, 15th century in chess
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en passant  Au passant  e.p.  En-passant  En passante
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(chess) a chess pawn that is moved two squares can be captured by an opponent's pawn commanding the square that was passed WordNet 3.0
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(chess) a chess pawn that is moved two squares can be captured by an opponent's pawn commanding the square that was passed WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
In chess, en passant describes the capture by a pawn of an enemy pawn on the same rank and an adjacent file that has just made an initial two-square advance. Wikipedia
A move in chess Wikipedia Disambiguation
Special move in chess where, immediately after a pawn makes a 2-step move, if it could have been captured by an opposing pawn had it advanced only 1 step, then the opponent can capture the just-moved pawn “as it passes” through the 1st square Wikidata
A move in which a pawn captures an opposing pawn on the same rank immediately after the latter has moved forward two squares on its first move in the game, as if it had moved forward only one square. Wiktionary
Chess move. Wiktionary (translation)
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capture
rules of chess
capture in chess
CATEGORY DOMAIN
chess
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chess
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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en passant
Wikipedia
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en passant
Wikidata
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en passant
Wiktionary
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en passant
Wikipedia Redirections
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Au passant, En-passant, En Passant, En passant (chess), En passante, En passent, In passing
Wikidata Alias
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e.p.

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