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An en passant capture (illustration pictured) is a chess maneuver in which, where a player moves a pawn two spaces forward from its starting position and where such piece could have been captured by his opponent's pawn had it been moved forward just one space, an opponent may capture as if the one-rank move had occurred, but only on the turn immediately following the two-rank move. The implementation of the rule permitting such captures was one major rule changes advanced in European chess in the 14th and 15th centuries and was undertaken because the rule permitting pawns to advance two spaces had been adopted only to quicken the pace of the game and not to permit a player to escape capture.
