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- From: tjt@Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Tim Thompson)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
- Subject: Re: Fianchetto; En Passant
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 05:30:06 GMT
- Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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- I can't say as I've seen a book that handles fianchetto as you want, but I can
- say something about en passant. The rule was introduced not long after chess
- came to Europe, probably by the late 1400's. The motivation comes from the fact
- the the parent Arab/Persian game of Shatranj allowed pawns to move only one
- square always. When impatient Europeans insisted on livening things up with the
- two-squares-on-the-first-move option, there were many complaints about losing
- the opportunity to exchange pawns. The two square option allowed one to bypass
- the enemy pawn, so the en passant rule was introduced to eliminate that
- complaint.
-
- Tim Thompson
- JPL Div 32 Science Computing Network
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