Chess help

[Remocracy]

So I'm a bit new to chess, I just saw someone play this move, what is this? My pawn shouldn't be able to be captured by his?

 

[Angry_Panda]

This is called an 'en passant' capture, and requires a specific combination of moves to occur.
First, the white pawn has to be in its fifth rank (the one the black pawns move to if they move two spaces on their first move).
Then, black has to move a pawn that hasn't been moved yet up two squares to land next to it. (So this only works on a pawn in an adjacent column to the opposing pawn.)
Finally, on the next move, and the next move only, white's pawn can capture the black pawn as though it had only moved one space instead of two (meaning the white pawn advances one space and moves into the column of the captured black pawn).
Essentially, the capture is like interrupting the black move partway through.

 

[Richman]

So I'm a bit new to chess, I just saw someone play this move, what is this? My pawn shouldn't be able to be captured by his?

Google en passant

 

[Remocracy]

Google en passant

Holy hell

 

[pandascepter]

Google en passant

bro youre the fish AI chess bot.

 

[Ivegotnolife]

 

[EOTFOFYL]

 

[PantsMan]

Holy hell

Chess' equivalent of a battle shonen secret technique. More accurately, a XVth-ish century nerf to the "pawns can now move two squares" update patch.

 

[Angry_Panda]

Chess' equivalent of a battle shonen secret technique. More accurately, a XVth-ish century nerf to the "pawns can now move two squares" update patch.

"You fool - you just activated my trap pawn!"

(Which apparently means something totally different to @Mr_Detective )

 

[Ivegotnolife]