en passant

special move in chess where, immediately after a pawn makes a 2-step move, if it could have been captured by an opposing pawn had it advanced only 1 step, then the opponent can capture the just-moved pawn “as it passes” through the 1st square
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en passant

Summary

en passant is a rules of chess[1]. It draws 1,836 Wikipedia views per month (rules_of_chess category, ranking #1 of 4).[2]

Key Facts

  • en passant's video is recorded as Ajedrez animación en passant.gif[3].
  • en passant's instance of is recorded as rules of chess[4].
  • en passant's subclass of is recorded as capture in chess[5].
  • en passant's part of is recorded as chess terminology[6].
  • en passant's Commons category is recorded as En passant[7].
  • en passant's sport is recorded as chess[8].
  • en passant's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0341pq[9].
  • en passant's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/en-passant[10].
  • en passant's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://chess.stackexchange.com/tags/en-passant[11].
  • en passant's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'e.p.'}[12].
  • en passant's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'el', 'text': 'ε.δ.'}[13].
  • en passant's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'ca', 'text': 'a.p.'}[14].
  • en passant's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'es', 'text': 'a.p.'}[15].
  • en passant's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'he', 'text': 'ד.ה.'}[16].
  • en passant's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as en_passant[17].
  • en passant's schematic is recorded as Ajedrez captura al paso del peon.png[18].
  • en passant's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 207556761[19].
  • en passant's ProofWiki ID is recorded as Definition:Chess/Rules/Capture/Pawn/En_Passant[20].
  • en passant's Lex ID is recorded as en_passant[21].
  • en passant's KBpedia ID is recorded as EnPassant[22].
  • en passant's Chess Programming Wiki ID is recorded as En_passant[23].

Why It Matters

en passant draws 1,836 Wikipedia views per month (rules_of_chess category, ranking #1 of 4).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] It is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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