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Google En Passant

    The original post on Reddit that started the en passant joke
    The original post that started the en passant meme

    How the en passant joke started

    The “Google en passant. Holy hell” meme came from a Reddit post of OP accusing their opponent of cheating when in fact it was just an en passant move by the pawn. A user then responded with “Google en passant” and afterwards OP replied back with “Holy hell”. Both comments became a joke within the chess community and is often copy pasted with the context changed.

    The original responses in the thread stops at “new response just dropped” so the additional ones are added from top comments in an en passant joke thread. Then this continued until we have an entire flowchart documenting all possible response for the en passant joke.

    I’m playing against a cheater AI on chess.com

    I had my pawn at f4 and his pawn was e4. So one next to the other.

    His next move he moved the pawn to f3 and f4 pawn was gone.

    I got images but don’t know how to post them.

    En Passant response pasta

    Google en passant
    Holy hell
    new response just dropped
    actual zombie
    Call the exorcist!
    ???
    bishop goes on vacation, never comes back
    Queen sacrifice anyone?
    pawn storm incoming!
    Google dementia

    En passant response flowchart

    Full Google En Passant flowchart
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    e4 e5 “Okay, so he goes e5.”

      Daniel Naroditsky e4 e5 copypasta
      1. e4 e5

"Okay, so he goes e5. Now a lot of people here would just lazily develop the knight to f3, but we actually have a move here that poses a lot of practical problems for black and is borderline winning for white. The move is Ke2, and do not worry I will explain this more thoroughly after the game. Now you might look at this position and say, 'isn't this weakening our king and blocking in our pieces?' And while that may be true, you guys need to start thinking long term. In the endgame, it will be a huge advantage to have our king activated in the center. Furthermore, black has no threats here, he is not going to checkmate us any time soon, the king is perfectly well defended on e2. Now he does have a nasty little defensive resource he can try here, let's see if he finds it. Wow, Ke7 he finds it. Now guys, I don't wanna hear any baseless accusations, we will check with an engine after the game. It's not unthinkable that a 1500 finds this move. No black has not equalized, we just need to play clinically to secure our advantage."
      1. e4 e5

"Okay, so he goes e5. Now a lot of people here would just lazily develop the knight to f3, but we actually have a move here that poses a lot of practical problems for black and is borderline winning for white.

The move is Ke2, and do not worry I will explain this more thoroughly after the game. Now you might look at this position and say, 'isn't this weakening our king and blocking in our pieces?' And while that may be true, you guys need to start thinking long term.

In the endgame, it will be a huge advantage to have our king activated in the center. Furthermore, black has no threats here, he is not going to checkmate us any time soon, the king is perfectly well defended on e2.

Now he does have a nasty little defensive resource he can try here, let's see if he finds it. Wow, Ke7 he finds it. Now guys, I don't wanna hear any baseless accusations, we will check with an engine after the game. It's not unthinkable that a 1600 finds this move. No black has not equalized, we just need to play clinically to secure our advantage."