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''En passant'' ''(from French: "in pawn's passing")'' is a maneuver in the Board Game of Chess . ''En passant'' is possible when 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. In either Algebraic or Descriptive Chess Notation , ''en passant'' captures are sometimes denoted by "e.p." or similar, but such notation is not required. In algebraic notation, the move is written as if the captured pawn just advanced only one square, ''e.g'', exf6 (or exf6 e.p.) in the illustration below. ILLUSTRATION
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