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True. It's as if any piece could kill the king in transition. And yet other pieces can't kill that pawn in passing. Only another pawn. We shouldn't try to fin
by SamBam 2y ago
True. It's as if any piece could kill the king in transition.
And yet other pieces can't kill that pawn in passing. Only another pawn.
We shouldn't try to find too much logic.
- kevindamm 2y agoClearly there's some Heisenberg uncertainty principle where the pawn occupies both the third (or sixth) and fourth (or fifth) rank, in a kind of superposition that only an opponent pawn situated in a certain position would be able to observe.
- FartyMcFarter 2y agoI think the logic is based on pragmatism. A different piece has a chance of capturing the pawn later, but a pawn would never be able to since it can't go backwards.