Meaning

1 senses
  1. 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.

    Schlagen en passant

    взя́тие на прохо́деvzjátije na proxóde, анпасса́нanpassán, энпасса́нenpassán

    взяття́ на прохо́діvzjattjá na proxódi

    (chess) a chess pawn that is moved two squares can be captured by an opponent's pawn commanding the square that was passed

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.

Translations

8 languages
Українська
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Русский
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Origin

An unadapted borrowing from French en passant.

An unadapted borrowing from French en passant.

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Forms

plural: en passants
Singularen passant
Pluralen passants

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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