In the game of chess, ‘en passant’ involves which chess pieces?
En passant if the pawn had moved only one square". The conditions are: "En passant" is a unique privilege of pawns: other pieces cannot capture "en passant". It is the only capture in chess in which the capturing piece does not replace the captured piece on its square. In either algebraic or descriptive chess notation, "en passant" captures are sometimes denoted by "e.p." or similar, but such notation is not required. In algebraic notation, the capturing move is written as if the captured pawn advanced only one square, for example, ...bxa3 (or ...bxa3e.p.) in the first example. There are some examples of
En passant the only way a double check can be delivered without one of the checking pieces moving, as in this position). The largest known number of "en passant" captures in one game is three, shared by three games; in none of them were all three captures by the same player. The earliest known example is a 1980 game between Alexandru Sorin Segal and Karl Heinz Podzielny. "En passant" captures have often been used as a theme in chess compositions, as they "produce striking effects in the opening and closing of lines". In the 1938 composition by Kenneth S. Howard, the move