En passant

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En passant - special move in chess where, immediately after a pawn makes a 2-step move, if it could have been captured by an opposing pawn had it advanced only 1 step, then the opponent can capture the just-moved pawn “as it passes” through the 1st square. Article “En passant” in Simple English Wikipedia has 42.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 9 references and 6 sections.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “En passant”, its content was written by 7 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1054 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 44 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2560 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #79 in August 2024
• Global: #6560 in April 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #6540 in August 2024
• Global: #4477 in January 2021

There are 44 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Chinese (zh) 吃過路兵		62.4989
2	English (en) En passant		57.6247
3	Vietnamese (vi) Bắt tốt qua đường		51.5221
4	Simple English (simple) En passant		42.4329
5	Portuguese (pt) En passant		38.5209
6	Czech (cs) Braní mimochodem		36.2008
7	Uzbek (uz) Kesib oʻtish		34.745
8	Catalan (ca) Captura al pas		34.1114
9	Tamil (ta) போகும்போது பிடித்தல்		33.4962
10	Japanese (ja) アンパッサン		33.1207

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) En passant		7 452 529
2	German (de) En passant		1 256 127
3	Russian (ru) Взятие на проходе		1 022 226
4	Spanish (es) Captura al paso		960 112
5	French (fr) En passant (échecs)		746 604
6	Portuguese (pt) En passant		527 152
7	Italian (it) En passant		467 332
8	Dutch (nl) En passant slaan		294 874
9	Vietnamese (vi) Bắt tốt qua đường		237 737
10	Japanese (ja) アンパッサン		219 188

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) En passant		15 530
2	German (de) En passant		4 529
3	Russian (ru) Взятие на проходе		4 399
4	French (fr) En passant (échecs)		4 233
5	Chinese (zh) 吃過路兵		1 971
6	Spanish (es) Captura al paso		1 968
7	Vietnamese (vi) Bắt tốt qua đường		1 564
8	Dutch (nl) En passant slaan		1 135
9	Japanese (ja) アンパッサン		1 119
10	Italian (it) En passant		1 054

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) En passant		257
2	German (de) En passant		99
3	French (fr) En passant (échecs)		52
4	Italian (it) En passant		51
5	Dutch (nl) En passant slaan		46
6	Russian (ru) Взятие на проходе		44
7	Vietnamese (vi) Bắt tốt qua đường		36
8	Spanish (es) Captura al paso		30
9	Chinese (zh) 吃過路兵		30
10	Hungarian (hu) En passant		28

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) En passant		2
2	Chinese (zh) 吃過路兵		2
3	Czech (cs) Braní mimochodem		1
4	German (de) En passant		1
5	Spanish (es) Captura al paso		1
6	Finnish (fi) Ohestalyönti		1
7	Serbo-Croatian (sh) En passant		1
8	Arabic (ar) أخذ بالتجاوز		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Keçiddə götürmə		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Вземане на преминаване		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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