• GregorTacTac
    13·
    4 months ago

    Somebody please tell me what en passant is. I googled it, found nothing.

      • GregorTacTac
        9·
        4 months ago

        Then why does everyone respond with “holy hell” or “new response just dropped”?

        • deus@lemmy.world
          15·
          4 months ago

          It’s a meme. It was used so often it spawned other meme responses itself. So it goes like this:

          google en passant

          holy hell

          new response just dropped

          actual zombie

          You get the gist.

        • ExocrinousEnglish
          2·
          4 months ago

          En Passant breaks the rules for how pawns normally capture pieces, so it’s surprising. Holy hell is an exclamation of surprise.

    • blubton@lemmy.world
      21·
      4 months ago

      It is an album by the famous Frnch singer Jean-Jacques Goldman. Even though he is not known for anything chess related, he is Frnch. The Fr*nch are looked down upon in chess for some reason, so anything in chess related to this nation has been called “en passant.” This includes capturing a pawn that moved two squares, throwing a croissant on the board and starting a revolution turning all pieces into pawns.

      • GregorTacTac
        3·
        4 months ago

        Sounds very French. Haha, I hope I didn’t scare you. 🇫🇷. France france france france.

        • blubton@lemmy.world
          3·
          4 months ago

          I don’t mind seeing the country name uncensored, but it is a tradition in chess to not only be sexist, but also racist (at least against one country)

            • blubton@lemmy.world
              3·
              4 months ago

              It is getting a lot better, but traditionally chess was a game for men only. Until the 2000s women were seen as inferior by most top players, like Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov (AKA Gary Chess, inventor of chess). Right now 95 percent of members of the Dutch chess federation is men. In my local chess club the average ratio men/women is provably like 90/10, with the difference between children being a lot less than adults.

              If you haven’t seen it, the series “The Queens Gambit” does a pretty good job portraying the difference between men and women at the top of chess: maybe one woman, hundreds of men.

              The gender gap is coming down, but it is still there.

              Also, pro chess players only sacrifice their queens, but not their kings. I do both