What are the two special moves in chess?

Question

sorry but you only have one of them

Answer 1

en passant and castling and pawn promotion

Answer 2

well everybody said everything else. my special moves are tactical; called pinning and forking my opponents pieces. lol

Answer 3

Castling and en passent (spelling might be wrong).

Answer 4

My favorite one is called King Side Castle, is where the two rooks are in the side of the king and the queen is in the front. It works!

Answer 5

one of them is called castleing and the other is, I think getting your pawn to the other side of the board and recovering a piece

Answer 6

there is castling where you almost switch your king and rook. en passant where you take the opponets pawn if they double move past you. and there is promoting where you get your pawn to the other side and promote to a rook or queen

Answer 7

The pawn getting to the other side of the board is not a special move, its actually a promotion.

Castle being one, the other one would be one of the two ways the pawn can capture other pieces, actually just another pawn.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawn_%28che...

"An even more unusual move is the en passant capture."

That can be performed only when the opponent's pawn moves double-space from base, as it passes your pawn you capture it by moving it diagonally behind the pawn which double-spaced.

Answer 8

yes, there's castling and then there's "en passant".

From wikipedia:

En passant is a capture made immediately after a player moves a pawn two squares forward from its starting position, and an opposing pawn could have captured it if it had only moved one square forward. In this situation, the opposing pawn may, on the immediately subsequent move, capture the pawn as if it had only moved one square forward; the resulting position would then be the same as if the pawn had only moved one square forward and the opposing pawn had captured normally. En passant must be done on the very next turn, or the right to do so is lost.

Such a move is the only occasion in chess in which a piece captures but does not move to the square of the captured piece. When claiming a draw by threefold repetition, two positions whose pieces are all on the same squares, with the same player to move, are considered different if there is the opportunity to make an en passant capture in one position but not the other.

There are also some figures in there that'll better explain it.