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 (chess) a chess pawn that is moved two squares can be captured by an opponent's pawn commanding the square that was passed
 • Topics:
 chess, chess game
 • Hypernyms:
 capture
 
 incidentally;
 in the course of doing something else
 - he made this remark in passing
 • Syn:
 in passing
 
 
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