Editing Chess (section)

=== Special rules ===
[[Image:Chess_Castle.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Pretty much this.]]
;En Passant
The foreign name is because this is a stupid rule from a previous edition buried right at the back where nobody reads it.  It's clearly an attempt by chess's authors to imitate D&D's "attack of opportunity," proving that chess is really just a bad knock-off of 4th edition D&D.  If player A's pawn moves two squares on its first move, and it arrives right next to (1 step to the left or the right) player B's pawn, player B can capture player A's pawn: player A's pawn is ''pushed back'' into the square it moved over (ie, where it would be if it had only moved one square) and player B's pawn moves diagonal as normal. This is the only way to take a piece in chess without ever occupying the same square as it. Absolutely nobody knows this rule exists the first time they encounter it; in fact, one of the biggest challenges in writing grandmaster-level chess programs is programming them to argue for half an hour that you can't do that with a pawn.

;Castling
If you think that your King is too exposed, you can "castle" him by moving the King two squares toward the Rook you want to use for this maneuver, and immediately placing the castle to the far side of the king. This is a very unrealistic representation of the king retreating to his castle, since there have been approximately zero real-life battles where a king hid behind a castle and the castle responded by wandering off and killing two knights and a member of the enemy clergy.  It only takes one turn and thus, is a really powerful move, as no other Chess maneuver can re-position multiple pieces. However, this has multiple conditions:
* The King and the Rook you want to use haven't attacked or moved yet this game.
* There are no pieces between the Rook and the King.
* The King isn't threatened and he doesn't move through threatened squares (we assume that in older editions all pieces got AoOs against the King and this move was forbidden because of the Brutality Rule). Of course you cannot move him onto a threatened square either. These rules don't apply to the Rook, but since you can’t castle into or out of check anyway the point is largely academic.
* To munchkins: The King and the Rook must be on the same row, you cannot castle with a pawn-rook.