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Interesting. In the days when the pawns could only move one square at a time, Black would not have been able to play 5...d5. Instead, if that pawn was played, it would have moved to d6. So the Knight move by White would have captured the pawn.
There must have been conversations back then about how to handle the new rule for allowing a first move of a pawn to move two squares. There would be many such captures possible based on this logic. We ended up with only a pawn being able to capture en passant.
Interesting. In the days when the pawns could only move one square at a time, Black would not have been able to play 5...d5. Instead, if that pawn was played, it would have moved to d6. So the Knight move by White would have captured the pawn.
There must have been conversations back then about how to handle the new rule for allowing a first move of a pawn to move two squares. There would be many such captures possible based on this logic. We ended up with only a pawn being able to capture en passant.