in passing: in chess, said of capturing a pawn that has made an initial move of two squares to its fourth rank, bypassing the square where an enemy pawn on its own fifth rank could capture it. The capture is made as if the captured pawn had moved one square instead of two
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en pas•sant
(än′ pa sänt′; Fr. än pä sän′),USA pronunciation
- Foreign Terms(italics) [French.]in passing;
by the way. - Chessa method by which a pawn that is moved two squares can be captured by an opponent's pawn commanding the square that was passed.
- 1655–65
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