How To Start And Solve The Destiny 2 Chess Puzzle For The En Passant Triumph

The En Passant Triumph has appeared in Destiny 2, and to obtain it you'll need to find and complete an easily missed chess puzzle. To be able to complete the puzzle, you'll need to have collected the 60 chess pieces hidden around the Destiny 2 universe for the Ambition and Resolve Pieces achievement. If you simply don't want to, join on a friend who has already unlocked the En Passant puzzle.

How To Find And Start The Chess Puzzle

The En Passant Triumph has six steps, the first of which is to complete five chess puzzles in the Unknown Space. To start with, you'll need to find the puzzle. Navigate to Eris Morn's Flat from the HELM and go through the green portal to her Throne World. Then, head to the northwest edge of the platform and drop down. This hidden room has a chess board in the center of it, and as you move closer you'll see the prompt reading 'Pick up the King?' Interacting with this prompt loads you into the Unknown Antechamber. After finding it for the first time, you can immediately return to the area from a new navigation option in the Last City.

Inside the Unknown Antechamber you'll find yourself faced with a large chessboard. You'll need to move the chess pieces to specific positions and interact with different plates to add, remove, or change pieces on the board. You begin each puzzle with a limited number of actions allowed, and you can check those actions in the on-screen message that appears when you stand on a plate. Each plate has a label, marked by a glowing green symbol, and different function as follows:

• Piece-specific plates - There's one of these for each chess piece--rook, bishop, pawn, knight, queen. Stand on the plate and shoot the tile you want the piece to be added or moved to.
• Delete- Stand on this plate on the left and shoot a tile to remove the chess piece that stands on it.
• Convert - This switch converts the chess piece of the tile you shoot.
• Undo - Undoes your last move.
• Start Over - Resets the board.

All Destiny 2 Chess Puzzle Solutions

There are multiple puzzles that take place on the board, but flow into one another and increase in difficulty the further along you get. In true Bungie fashion, you're given no information on how to solve the puzzle, the mechanics, or the solutions. You are permitted a total of 60 moves to complete the puzzle altogether.

The most important thing to note is that this isn't just any normal chess game, this is a Destiny 2 chess game, so all is not as straightforward as it should be. Note that our instructions are formatted with the plate to stand on first, and the tile to shoot second. While there are multiple combinations to progress this section of the puzzle, known in-game as Middle Game, here are some that trigger the progression of the En Passant Triumph and unlock the next part:

1. Pawn E6.
2. Rook H8.
3. Pawn E5.
4. Pawn E4, F4. Knight D4.
5. Pawn E6. Knight D5.
6. Pawn D1.
7. Pawn D7. Knight G7. Bishop E5. Pawn F4.
8. Rook D2. Knight C6.
9. Delete F6 (Knight).
10. Pawn E4. Knight C6. Bishop E5.
11. Pawn C6, D7, E6.
12. Convert E4.
13. Bishop E5.
14. Pawn B7, F7. Knight H8.
15. Knight D7, E7.
16. Delete F2 (Pawn). Knight F2.
17. Convert F6, C3.
18. Knight D3, F5. Bishop C5.
19. Delete D7, E2 (Bishops).
20. Bishop E8.
21. Bishop E2.
22. Knight E5.
23. Knight E3.
24. Delete D5 (Knight). Knight C4. Pawn B6, B7. Knight H3.
25. Convert F5. Delete D4 (Queen). Delete H4 (Pawn). Queen D7. Rook E2.
26. Knight B4. Bishop D5. Queen E7.
27. Convert C4 (Knight). Convert D6 (Knight). Convert E3 (Knight). Convert F5 (Knight).

Destiny 2 Chess Puzzle Frequencies Solutions

After following the steps above, interact with the water bowl on the left and the board will shift and convert to a black, white, and red tiled board. This is known as the End Game. When you have completed the first Middle Game puzzle, you can navigate to the Lost City and select the End Game mode to automatically return to this stage and skip the above chess puzzle. You'll be given a frequency just before this happens, and some chess pieces will be filled in around the edges. If you wait a while and try again, your frequency and chess pieces will change. At the same time, the console you previously used to undo a move will show the message 'Offer Your Answer' which you can interact with. You can freely place any piece on the board now.

Each player's chess board image and unique frequency was stitched together like a large jigsaw by members of the community, which revealed a QR code that leads to the Aion Network website. This website revealed messages, assumedly from Bungie, that felt cryptic in nature but hinted towards a large-scale experiment. You can go to the website yourself to read the messages and interact with the portal. The codes for the Aion Network portal are:

• 001 - About
• ??? - Alert
• 003 - Employee Handbook
• ??? - Memory Corruption
• 007 - Code of Conduct
• 008 - Access Codes
• 009 - Daily Schedule
• 010 - Deployed Objects
• 011 - Bookmarks
• 012 - Notifications

However, entering the code "11104" will ask you for your signal code--this is your frequency from the End Game part of the chess puzzle. After this, you're asked to paste an experiment code. Here, you'll need to convert the chess pieces on the board from your frequency code to fen chess notation. You can use a site like this one to quickly decipher that by adding your pieces to the board. Thanks to persistent entering of FEN codes to the Aion website, we have uncovered another first secret, which is a free emblem.

• JGN-PX4-DFN - Secret Signal Emblem

To redeem this emblem code simply go to the Bungie Redeem Code website while logged into your Destiny 2 account, and enter the code. Then, collect it from your in-game Flair Collections page.

It's important to note that a lot of the responses from the portal mention the Apollo Intertemporal Observation Network. Remember Destiny 2's Codename Apollo expansion? With the Destiny 2 Edge of Fate reveal coming next week, could this all be tied in?