Can a pawn kill another pawn diagonally when the victim pawn is side by side the killer?

Question

I have a PS chess game that will allow you to kill a pawn when the pawn is right beside your pawn, can you do this?

Answer 1

not in real tournoumets

Answer 2

yes.

Answer 3

No. You can't. I've never heard about this way.

Answer 4

yes you can noob

Answer 5

Aside from the fact that you CAPTURE (not kill) pieces and pawns in chess, the answer to your question is that, yes, under very specific circumstances this particular capture can occur. A pawn that is on its 5th (horizontal) rank, meaning row 5 for White or row 4 for Black (or if you're a football fan, divide the board horizontally across the middle and think of it as "one square over the 50 yard line") has the right to challenge the pawn(s) on the adjacent (vertical) file(s) as they begin to advance. (This was a big controversy in the 1500s when it was first proposed to allow pawns the option to move forward either 1 or 2 squares on their first move in order to speed up the game a little. Those opposed pointed out that a pawn on the 5th rank had the right to challenge a pawn coming out and that a pawn coming out 2 squares would deprive the pawn on the 5th rank of its rightful challenge. Thus, a compromise was reached: the pawns starting out would have the right to advance either 1 or 2 squares; however, if there was a pawn on the 5th rank (so that advancing 2 squares placed the pawns side-by-side), the pawn on the 5th rank could capture "en passant" (French for "in passing" by moving diagonally behind the pawn that had just advanced two squares, capturing it as if it had only advanced one square. Note that an "en passant" capture must be made on the very next move, or it is forfeit; you cannot let it sit there and then do it later.

Hope this helps.

--Scott

P. S. The explanation I just gave assumes that your PS system uses Algebraic Notation, the most common system in use today, where the board is laid out basically like a Battleship grid. Before this we had "Descriptive Notation" where the files were named (from left to right, on White's side of the board) QR, QN, QB, Q, K, KB, KN, and KR for "Queen's Rook", "Queens Knight", "Queens Bishop", "Queen", "King", "King's Bishop", "King's Knight", and "King's Rook". Also, instead of the rank numbers being static, they were relative for each player; i.e. White's 1st rank was Black's 8th rank. Black's 4th rank was White's 5th rank. Thus the moves in Algebraic Notation 1. e4 e5 would, in Descriptive Notation be written 1. P-K4 P-K4 and be spoken aloud as "White pawn to King four, Black pawn to King four (because each side is numbering the ranks from their perspective.) Thus, in Descriptive Notation, you would state the rule as when either side has a pawn on his or her 5th rank, whereas in Algebraic Notation, which makes a lot of other things less confusing, can confuse some people about "en passant" if they're playing Black on a notated board because they need to be looking at the 4th, not the 5th rank.

Oh, on a folding board, it's easy -- one square over the crease.  :-)

Answer 6

Yes in real life chess it is allowed if the piece is one block diagonal to it

Answer 7

If I read your question correctly, not usually.  If the victim pawn just moved two, on the very next move it can be killed as if it moved one.  That is called en Passant.  It is French.

Answer 8

yes it's en passant

Answer 9

While the move is RARELY USED, it is possible to capture a pawn that way.

The rarely used move is called "En Passant" (The French Phrase meaning "In Passing").  The move can only be used if (& ONLY IF) the attacking pawn is beyond the half-way point on the board (White, it's the 5th row...  4th for Black) & the opposing pawn is moved two square in an attempt to avoid capture.

If the pawn to be capture is moved one space prior to the attacking pawn get beyond the half-way point, you will not be able to enact the En Passant.

For recording purposes (in tournaments, ect.), the En Passant is denoted with "(ep)" at the end of the move.  An Example would be:

##. b2-b4 -- c4xb3(ep)

Again, En Passants are rarely used in gameplay...  so it's unlikely you'll be able to take advantage of it.

Answer 10

Yes, as others have said it's called En Passant.

There are special rules as to when this move can be used.

If one of your pawns is on the fifth row away from you (basically over the halfway point) and they move a pawn 2 spaces forward to rest next to your pawn, you can take that piece by moving diagonally as if it had only move forward 1 space.