Here's a situation. Say my pawn is in fifth rank. The opponent moves his pawn to an adjacent file so that I can capture it via en passant. If I can capture another piece, say his rook-pawn with my rook instead of en passant, why am I not left with that option? That's the basic rule of anti-chess.basic The be all and end all of it. 'It's mandatory to capture an opponent piece whenever possible". But in lichess variant I cannot do that, and whenever opponent plays a move for which I can reply with en passant I have to go for it.
Are you sure that is how it works? Lichess anti-chess forces en passant, even when you can make a move by capturing opponent's another chess piece? Have played a few games of this format. Haven't encountered a situation of the sort.
macronialmu: Ah, I see what you're getting at. I haven't noticed that myself however, so it might be a bug. There should definitely be a choice.
After 18... h5 I was not forced to take it en passant as per http://en.lichess.org/0kWaGANfnEsR
En passant is allowed in Antichess. But if a player is allowed to capture using en passant and he has no other viable capture then he is compelled to capture via en passant. But on the other hand if there are multiple possible capture including an en passant capture, a playing is not compelled to make that en passant caputure but "a capture"
#15 I was replying to #10 - But in lichess variant I cannot do that, and whenever opponent plays a move for which I can reply with en passant I have to go for it. - so I just wanted to prove, it is not a true.
I wasn't directing my comment at you, and to be honest I didn't even read anyone's posts but I replied to the Forum post's question
Thanks for verifying that it is possible to do an alternative move to en passant when more than one capturing move is available, bbyd :)
http://nl.lichess.org/czryJOx2NM4b Is there a bug in the antichess variation? I did win this game but was not rewarded any points. Of course I would like to still get them!
Looks like it was a casual (not a rated) game, Casimir :P
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