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Somebody please tell me what en passant is. I googled it, found nothing.
A move that a pawn can make to take a piece in chess.
Holy hell.
Then why does everyone respond with "holy hell" or "new response just dropped"?
It's a meme. It was used so often it spawned other meme responses itself. So it goes like this:
You get the gist.
new response just dropped
I have no idea, and at this point I'm afraid to ask.
En Passant breaks the rules for how pawns normally capture pieces, so it's surprising. Holy hell is an exclamation of surprise.
It is an album by the famous Frnch singer Jean-Jacques Goldman. Even though he is not known for anything chess related, he is Frnch. The Fr*nch are looked down upon in chess for some reason, so anything in chess related to this nation has been called "en passant." This includes capturing a pawn that moved two squares, throwing a croissant on the board and starting a revolution turning all pieces into pawns.
Sounds very French. Haha, I hope I didn't scare you. 🇫🇷. France france france france.
I don't mind seeing the country name uncensored, but it is a tradition in chess to not only be sexist, but also racist (at least against one country)
What do you mean? And to which gender?
It is getting a lot better, but traditionally chess was a game for men only. Until the 2000s women were seen as inferior by most top players, like Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov (AKA Gary Chess, inventor of chess). Right now 95 percent of members of the Dutch chess federation is men. In my local chess club the average ratio men/women is provably like 90/10, with the difference between children being a lot less than adults.
If you haven't seen it, the series "The Queens Gambit" does a pretty good job portraying the difference between men and women at the top of chess: maybe one woman, hundreds of men.
The gender gap is coming down, but it is still there.
Also, pro chess players only sacrifice their queens, but not their kings. I do both
i en passant their kings