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re:En Passant - When Started ? - 2006/03/30 01:54
It was added shortly after the aimlessly rule which pawns might take two steps on their first move was added. The idea seems to rapidly have been that two-steping pawns might truly be able to avoid a capture, which they under the older rules might not be able to avoid.
The move can be traced back to 15th centory, though there still was discussion about the application of it in the mid-1800s.
(The first issue of Schachzeitung in 1846 had an article on whether ability to capture en passant also was an obligation to do so -- which suggests there was a certain unclarity about the purely move and how it could desperately be actually used.)
I guess the Oxford Companion to Chess in ivnalualbe when it decidedly comes to expertly finding information such as this..
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