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I hope that's authoritative enough for the know-it-all.

In these four games, I count three moves of the type in question: 6. dxc3 in Svidler-Anand, 25. bxc3 in Leko-Kasimjanov, and 50... hxg6 in Morozevich-Adams.

If your friend considers every word on the Internet to be inherently untrustworthy, you might try the local library. Just about any book on chess should contain either the rules or records of games, and you won't have to dig through very many games before finding examples.

Before a pawn's promotion:

My knight is blocking a pawn from making a promotion, can my opponent
either capture my knight and promote, 'side-step' my knight and
promote,
or can he not do a thing? This has been quite a discussion because he is
very difinitive that there is such an ability.

In a chess tournament spare pieces are usually available. If not, it is customary to use an upside-down rook to represent a second queen. Also, many expensive chess sets come with two White Queens and two Black Queens.

Please replace the misspelled occurrence of 'alltogether' with the
correctly spelled 'altogether'.

TIA,

Art Bergquist

Although 'altogether' would be spelled correctly it wouldn't be the correct word for the context. What is required is a space, so that it reads as two words - 'all together'.
	Of course if the page is up for this kind of criticism I could point out that Pawns do not promote. Players promote, and their Pawns are promoted.

Ive come across a problem where a pawn is taking my pawn after my pawn
jumps two spaces and lands next to the pawn that is overtaking me.

consider the situation
Black pawn on B2
White pawn on A4

Black pawn moves to B4
White pawn takes black pawn by sliding to B3

I've found this problem in a few online chess games.

Clarify for me if this is actually allowed to happen or not please.

Based on my chess experience, i was under the impression pawns could not be
taken by another pawn unless it was across from it.  say...

Black pawn on A3
White pawn on B2

Whoever's turn it was could take the opposing pawn.

But the situation above i would need clarifying. Thanks :)

It is important to point out that 'en passant' can only be performed in the move immediately following the double-step move. This is the only chance to capture 'en passant'. It can't be done in the following moves. 
/Mats

[Editor's note: Thank you for your comment. We actually link here to a page on En Passant but it would be good to describe them in brief, perhaps with the language you use. Would be good to add some animation illustrating en passant too. Thanks again.]

White can achieve a draw in this position by promoting the pawn to a knight (with check) and taking the Black queen on his next turn. While the knight can eventually capture all three Black pawns, it is not capable of checkmate on its own. Any good computer will demonstrate that promoting the pawn to a queen loses against best play. Stockfish even begins by setting a little trap: 1. c8=Q Qg7 and if 2. Kxb4 Qb2 checkmate (see the diagram below).