• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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      9 months ago

      It’s French for “in passing”. It’s a special move for taking a pawn with another pawn, if the first pawn tries using its double space first move to go past an enemy pawn.

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          9 months ago

          Are you like an idiot or something? You actually thought asking “what’s en passant?” Was going to come across as funny or sarcastic? Do you actually think everyone knows what en passant is? Most people don’t know how to play chess, yet you think asking what en passant is, is some sort of witty thing? Moron.

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              9 months ago

              Someone failing to recognize a niche joke from a small community is not a whoosh. And of course he doesn’t get the joke. Because it’s a niche joke from a small community.

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                9 months ago

                Wow. Heaven forbid I used a joke from the largest online chess influencers following when there are multiple threads on this post from the same community…

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                  9 months ago

                  No one said you can’t make jokes. It was only pointed out that someone not getting a joke from your insular club isn’t a whoosh.

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                    9 months ago

                    The whoosh is part of the joke… Which apparently you didn’t know. Also, it isn’t insular. It’s literally the opposite of that. I thought they were participating in the joke until they replied in such a negative way.

                    I don’t understand why you are so upset about this and why you are so derogatory towards what is potentially the largest generation of chess players proportionally to their generation size to have ever existed.