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En Passant

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

(chess) a chess pawn that is moved two squares can be captured by an opponent's pawn commanding the square that was passed

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Classifications

Entity Type

Unknownauthoritativeglossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
En Passants
possessive
En Passant's
pluralpossessive
En Passants'