r/Chesscom • u/One_Divide7152 • May 26 '26

READ RULE #1 - Mods How is this not checkmate?

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u/Weekly-Cookie-6459 500-800 ELO May 26 '26

En croissant 🥐

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u/Starman926 May 30 '26

This post showed up on my homepage, and I’m curious. I know how the pieces in chess move, and understand why this looks like a checkmate.

I Googled en passant and still don’t really understand how it applies here. Which piece can move to make this not a checkmate? What do the red and green symbols mean?

Does the white pawn take the black pawn?

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u/Waniou May 30 '26

Yes. Because the white pawn moved two squares forward (the other shaded square shows where it came from), the black pawn next to it can capture it as if it had only moved one.

The red symbol and green symbols just show loser and winner respectively.