Answers.Body: <p>En-passant can only occur <em>immediately</em> after a pawn moves two squares from its starting square, where it could have been captured had it only moved one square.</p>
  
  <p>You cannot wait a move: if you choose not to immediately capture en-passant, you lose the ability to do so next move.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I am new to chess, so sorry for this obvious question. I was surfing through the web and learned the en passant rule. In <a href="https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/5662/when-is-it-possible-to-carry-out-the-en-passant-manoeuvre">this question</a> they say "You cannot wait a few moves and then use the en passant capture." So I went searching through websites to find out if I can wait, then play the en passant capture and found nothing. So what I want to know is, if for example there are 2 pawns by each other, can I wait and play a few moves and then perform the move. Example: (I know the image below can't happen, but just saying.)</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/5LwNH.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/5LwNH.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>And then play a few moves like shown below.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/yApDv.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/yApDv.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>And finally capture the white piece using en passant.</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Welcome to [chess.se]! Carefully reading the first two answers in the linked question will clear up your doubt, so I've marked this question as a duplicate.
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Comments.Text: Not relevant to the en passant question, but I just wanted to note that the first position you show actually _can_ happen. 1.Nf3 e5 2.Ng1 e4 3.d4 and then Black can capture en passant.
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Comments.Text: This question is easily answered using Google.
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Title: Can you wait and then perform an en passant capture?
ThreadText: # Can you wait and then perform an en passant capture?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-06-28)
  
  I am new to chess, so sorry for this obvious question. I was surfing through the web and learned the en passant rule. In [this question](https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/5662/when-is-it-possible-to-carry-out-the-en-passant-manoeuvre) they say "You cannot wait a few moves and then use the en passant capture." So I went searching through websites to find out if I can wait, then play the en passant capture and found nothing. So what I want to know is, if for example there are 2 pawns by each other, can I wait and play a few moves and then perform the move. Example: (I know the image below can't happen, but just saying.)
  
  [![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/5LwNH.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/5LwNH.png)
  
  And then play a few moves like shown below.
  
  [![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/yApDv.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/yApDv.png)
  
  And finally capture the white piece using en passant.
  
  **Tags:** en-passant
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Welcome to [chess.se]! Carefully reading the first two answers in the linked question will clear up your doubt, so I've marked this question as a duplicate.  
  > **username_2**: Not relevant to the en passant question, but I just wanted to note that the first position you show actually _can_ happen. 1.Nf3 e5 2.Ng1 e4 3.d4 and then Black can capture en passant.  
  > **username_3**: This question is easily answered using Google.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_4 on 2019-06-28. Score: 7 | Accepted answer
  
  En-passant can only occur *immediately* after a pawn moves two squares from its starting square, where it could have been captured had it only moved one square.
  
  You cannot wait a move: if you choose not to immediately capture en-passant, you lose the ability to do so next move.
  
  
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