Meaning

1 senses
  1. (not comparable)Of a capture, performed by a pawn on an enemy pawn that has just passed over its attack zone.

Examples

4 sentences
  1. En passant is a special type of pawn move in chess.

    Взяття на проході - особливий хід пішкою у шахах. — deniko

  2. The white pawn took the black pawn "en passant".

    ruБелая пешка забрала черную пешку "на проходе". — carlosalberto

    deDer weiße Bauer schlug den schwarzen en passant. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. Google 'en passant'.

    ruЗагугли "взятие на проходе". — Ooneykcall

  4. The "en passant" capture is a peculiarity of the pawn movement. No other chess piece can do anything like that.

Origin

An unadapted borrowing from French en passant.

An unadapted borrowing from French en passant.

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See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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