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Games with three en passants

Chess Asked on October 5, 2021

Games with two en passants in them are are uncommon, and games with three are exceeding rare, and four has never been achieved as far as I know.

I only know of four games with three en passant captures in them, with game #2 arguably being the most famous one because of Tim Krabbe.

  1. A S Segal-K H Podzielny, 1980

  2. Kudrin-R Douven, 1989

  3. G N Gopal-S Zhigalko, 2005

  4. Naiditsch-B Predojevic, 2006

Can more games with three en passants that exist be found?

One Answer

I made a program that reads PGN files that contain thousands of games.
It read 1 317 676 games and found six that fit the criteria.

  1. A Bitalzadeh vs E L'Ami, 2013
  2. I Shahaliyev vs E Ghaem Maghami, 2014
  3. M Petrov vs M Ozdover, 2016
  4. Vi Balint vs G Kjartansson, 2017
  5. J Bonin vs M Paragua, 2019
  6. N Berry vs A Roy, 2019

More could be found. I downloaded all the 1.3 million games from The Week in Chess.

Correct answer by Kasper Kivimäki on October 5, 2021

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