The en passant capture can occur after a pawn makes a move of two squares and the square it passes over is attacked by an enemy pawn. En passant is a French phrase for in passing. The enemy pawn is ...

Chess is one of the world’s oldest sports, being played by people in Europe from at least the 15th century. It is played between two players and the logical thinking required in chess has been ...

Jerry Neugarten can make you care about chess even if you don’t know a pawn from a rook. “It’s a wonderful battle game,” he said when I met him last weekend at a citywide chess tournament for grade ...