Author: Jan Pernicka
Date: 00:27:11 12/16/99
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>Thanks for the input Bruce...
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>I'll work on presenting this better...
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>En-passant (if my understanding is correct) is a special case when a pawn
>reaches the 5th rank and the opposing adjacent pawn moves two squares on its
>first move. The pawn on the 5th rank then has the option (only on its next
>move) to capture the opposing pawn as if it had moved only one square. If this
>is the case, then en-passant would be considered as a normal capture covered
>under 'Magnitude 1 - Capture Only'. In other words, the 'Movement' of the
>capture of a Pawn(P) done by en-passant is the same as the 'Movement' of the
>capture of a Pawn(P) done normally.
To be correct - this case is for white capturing black - the same case
is for black capturing white pawn - but you should all the n-th ranks
replace with (8-n)th ranks in the text. Maybe unnecessary information...
John P.
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