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🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, May 10 09:16 AM EDT in reply to H. G. Muller from 01:58 AM:

You did not get the point. Does the preset say 'check' when you check with any other piece than an Advancer? I think it doesn't. So then this has nothing to do with the piece being an Advancer.

I dug back into this thread to find the preset he was talking about. He linked to a particular game in which neither Advancer checked the opponent's King. Continuing this game by choosing Annotate and then Move, I played some moves to get a White Flying Dragon to check the Black King, and when I did, it said "check!". After moving the King out of check, I tried to move White's Advancer, but no legal moves are being highlighted on the board for it. However, its legal moves do show up in the Moves field, and when I tried one, it worked. At the top of the Moves field, I see the legal move "A e1-#to; A #to-b1". I think this is not a properly formatted move, and it may be interfering with the ability to recognize the Advancer's legal moves. Also, when I entered it, it did not recognize it as legal, and it gave the error message "#to is not a valid square".

Here are the moves to the position in question so that you can see what's going on.

1. P f2-f5 
1... p f9-f6 
2. P e2-e4 
2... p e9-e7 
3. F i1-h3 
3... f i10-h8 
4. P i2-i3 
4... p d9-d8 
5. B h1-i2 
5... c g10-f7 
6. C d1-f3 
6... f b10-c8 
7. C g1-e3 
7... c d10-f8 
8. K f1-i1 
8... p g9-g7 
9. P b2-b3 
9... c f8-e5 
10. P d2-d4 
10... c e5-f8 
11. B c1-b2 
11... a e10-h7 
12. F b1-e2 
12... p i9-i8 
13. P g2-g5 
13... c f7-e8 
14. P g5-g6 
14... a h7-f9 
15. P c2-c4 
15... p b9-b6 
16. F h3-g2 
16... c e8-d7 
17. P d4-d5 
17... f c8-d6 
18. F e2-h3 
18... p c9-c7 
19. C f3-e6 
19... c d7-e6 
20. P d5-e6 
20... p j9-j8 
21. B b2-a3 
21... b c10-a8 
22. B a3-d6 
22... p e7-d6 
23. R h1-f1 
23... p j8-j7 
24. F g2-d3 
24... b h10-j8 
25. C e3-g1 
25... f h8-i6 
26. P j2-j3 
26... p d8-d7 
27. P a2-a5 
27... p b6-a5 
28. R a1-a5 
28... b a8-b9 
29. P e6-d7 
29... f9-e8;@-d7 
30. C g1-a7 
30... f i6-h4 
31. C a7-d8 // - check! -
31... k f10-f9

Just click on Annotate for Butterfly Chess and paste these in to see the same position.