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garySuth84
I had pawns on f4,g5 and h6 as black
They had pawns on f3,g4 and h5
Their next move went from h5 to g6
I don’t understand this move, is this a rule I never knew about and if so what is it called
mike_ox6942

en passant if it looked like this

garySuth84
Yeah that’s the one, Thanks mate, every day a school day
bigD521

Post 2 is correct. Your pawns had to be on f4, g7, and h6. Ages ago, pawns could only move 1 square, but it was decided to slightly speed up the game, by allowing on a pawns first move to move 2 squares. It was then noted that with the new rule a pawn by moving 2 squares could pass an opponent's pawn avoiding capture. To keep the game the same, en passant was made so when this took place, the pawn could be captured as if it had only moved 1 square. However, if one wishes to capture en passant it must be done immediately. you cannot move something else and then go back and capture later. When you moved from g7 to g5, you passed whites pawn on h5 with the 2 move rule. White captured (en passant) as if you had only move 1 square (g7 to g6) hxg6.