lichess.org
Donate

F and C line bug with pawns

It happened several times, not only this time. Pawn placed F2-F4 and that move I saw on the desk and in analytic, but opponent took it with his move pawn E4-F3. Such problem also happened with C line another time with pawns(C2-C4 took B4-C3). Here is this game "VSCxVsocLldJ".
Fix it please.
Thx.
%) Don't know that, my fault, sor.
It's illogically, I think :)
Thank you for the answer.
这是一个特殊规则, 好不.

不过,我也常常忘了,被对方白吃...
#3 - it's not that illogical - some time between 1200 and 1600 AD (according to Wiki) the game was speeded up by the introduction of the 2-square 1st pawn move rule. The en passant rule was introduced to prevent a pawn avoiding capture by another pawn by jumping over the capture square; it still has to run the gauntlet.
Maybe it's a bit illogical that en passant captures can only be made by another pawn; why not by other pieces, for instance if an opponent's knight is threatening c3 and you move c2-c4? It probably got tried out and rejected a very long time ago ...
> illogical that en passant captures can *only* be made by another pawn

yes
Chess rules themself do not and need not follow logic. You would also need to struggle with why the capturing pawn can't make the same move against non-enpassant. For example capturing a rook that passes by two squares exactly like en-passant, or anything that moves past it.

One can always try to make up an story to match the rules so it seems more logical.
Ok, but the point is that the rook is allowed up to 8 squares any time it wants to and can; the pawn wasn't always allowed two. The logic we're talking about here isn't about the rules, it's about an exception to a single rule.

This topic has been archived and can no longer be replied to.