Any Chess players out there? I have a question

krc1995

krc1995

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I am self teaching myself Chess and I frequently play on my phone using an app called chess.com. There are two rules that I do not understand. The first is the en passant rule and the second is when does the game actually end? I have been playing with random people around the world and sometimes the game ends and I am not sure exactly why. Does the game end when your King is in Check or only when it is in Checkmate? In the games I am playing on the app, each player has up to 24 hours to make a move, I was playing seven games at a time and when I went to go check on the game's status, I would see it was finished. Of those seven I won four and lost 2, with one game still on-going, but I do not fully understand how the six games finished-particularly the games I reportedly won.

 
An en passant capture has to do with two pawns. The first time a pawn moves it can move two square straight ahead. WHen you do this (moving a pawn two squares forward) and end up sitting beside an opposing pawn, that opposing pawn can capture your pawn. Except (this is the tricky part) he can capture the pawn at it's first square of the two squares it moved forward. Not at the square where it ended up. So the opposing pawn that captured the newly moved pawn ends up one square forward and one over, right behind where the newly moved pawn stopped. The newly moved pawn is captured, so it is removed from the board.

 
Ok- So let's say I am white pawn, you are black pawn. I have first move and I move pawn up two squares into the 5th rank. Rather then move your corresponding black pawn up to meet my pawn(I think a standard move?), you move another piece(let's say a knight and irrelevant to my pawn's move). Now I move my same pawn(from the first move) one more square up on my second move to the 4th rank. Now you move the pawn that is one file over, but still in its orginal spot, two spots up so that it is setting in next to my pawn. Is this correct? Does your pawn automatically take my pawn and move to its orginial spot? Or does it require that I ignore your pawn's threat, move another piece on my turn and then you take it on your turn? I guess I am asking if your en passant is automatic, or it requires a turn. I

Why is this a rule and can you only use it within so many moves of a new game?

 
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krc1995 said:
(1) Now you move the pawn that is one file over, but still in its orginal spot, two spots up so that it is setting in next to my pawn. Is this correct? (2)Does your pawn automatically take my pawn and move to its orginial spot?
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1) If I understand correctly, my black pawn has to already be sitting at the 4th rank. Then if you move two spaces with your white pawn to the 4th rank next to my pawn, I can take your pawn. EXCEPT, instead of taking it directly to the side I move over one square and forward on square to the spot between your white pawn's original location and it's ending location.

2) No, I don't think it's a required or automatic move. I can either take your pawn to the side and end up at the 4th rank, or on the diagonal (en passant) and end up with my black pawn at your 3rd rank. And I think the en passant capture must be made on the next move after your pawn moves.

That's my understanding anyway. And I looked it up to make sure. :)

 
As far as game endings, I think these are the way a game ends:

1) checkmate

2) one player resigns (gives up)

3) players negotiate a draw

4) King is not in check but cannot move without going into check(mate), game is a draw

5) Not really familiar with time limit games, but I think you lose if you exceed the time limit for your moves.

There may be others I don't know about, and you said you have to make a move in 24 hours in chess.com. Maybe there are others in chess.com.

You do not lose for having your king in check, as long as you can move out of it (i.e., not checkmate).

Might be missing some, but as far as I know the only way you

 
VA Husker Fan said:
As far as game endings, I think these are the way a game ends:

1) checkmate

2) one player resigns (gives up)

3) players negotiate a draw

4) King is not in check but cannot move without going into check(mate), game is a draw

5) Not really familiar with time limit games, but I think you lose if you exceed the time limit for your moves.

There may be others I don't know about, and you said you have to make a move in 24 hours in chess.com. Maybe there are others in chess.com.

You do not lose for having your king in check, as long as you can move out of it (i.e., not checkmate).

Might be missing some, but as far as I know the only way you
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Don't forget threefold repetition--that is, moving the same piece from point A to another destination three times in the same game, all while having the same pieces/options available all three times.

I tried but failed to explain it adequately here--hence, a link to Wikipedia for 'Threefold Repetition'. One can call for a draw based on this rule, and not taking an en passant move initially when available (even though it's only available the first time) can supposedly count towards this?...

 
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