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Check out this glitch I just had in Chess

walkingmac

walkingmac

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OK... so I got a little board and decided to play a little chess. So I loaded the app that came with the OS (10.3) and all the sudden the game started CHEATING!

(hope u can get what I mean from the image)

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walkingmac said:
OK... so I got a little board and decided to play a little chess. So I loaded the app that came with the OS (10.3) and all the sudden the game started CHEATING!

(hope u can get what I mean from the image)

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How...Why...What....AGGGGGHHHH :confused:
I'm so confused! Why would a bug like that make it into the game? How?...
 
As far as I know, it's a rare situation, but it is allowed. I forgot the name of the rule..
 
Actually I'd forgetton about that rule but, yes, it is true. So the game is good because it takes into account all the rules! Pitty the Chess game on Mac OS X doesn't appear to have any instructions (i.e. knowledge of chess is assumed).
 
Foiled again…

Damn. I thought that was just a fake rule my big brother made up to beat me when I was 11. :eek:
 
yes, that is a legal move. as someone mentioned earlier, it is called capturing "en passent", or "in passing". technically, the white pawn was at D2 (i think). moving that white pawn to D4, means the pawn has to go through D3 first, which makes it vulnerable to attack from the black pawn at E4. the black player can only capture the white pawn "en passent" on the very next move... (E4 x D3) after that it is not allowed. this is a standard chess rule, and not that rare or obscure at all.
 
shake said:
yes, that is a legal move. as someone mentioned earlier, it is called capturing "en passent", or "in passing". technically, the white pawn was at D2 (i think). moving that white pawn to D4, means the pawn has to go through D3 first, which makes it vulnerable to attack from the black pawn at E4. the black player can only capture the white pawn "en passent" on the very next move... (E4 x D3) after that it is not allowed. this is a standard chess rule, and not that rare or obscure at all.
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yeah man, obviously the rest of you guys weren't in chess club.

*pushes up imaginary glasses on nose like conan obrian
 
yeah my brother used to use that move on me and I fell for it every time. Of course I was 8 years old at the time and he was 18.
 
I've argues till I was blue in the face that taking "en passant" was legal and nobody ever believed me. Here's a site that explains the move. It's quite simple, actually. However, what I didn't know was this: ...you can't wait for another turn to capture a pawn en passant -- you either do it right after the enemy pawn has moved, or you can't do it at all.

Interesting.

I got that info from this site:

http://chessaspirants.com/how_to_play_chess/enpassantmove.htm

Squire
 
Yep, definitely a legal move. Several times I've jumped a pawn two spaces forward (not thinking about it) and my opponent did that to me. It's an extremely annoying move because it looks rather strange and is easy to overlook.
 
This is a legal move, though very few people know about this. I like it even better than castling.
 
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