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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Jan 19, 2021 05:22 PM UTC in reply to Aurelian Florea from 07:31 AM:

I'm sorry to say but it works in the same way.

Okay, I made some corrections to a test version at this URL:

https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game=Apothecary+Chess-Classic&settings=fpdtest

In both your Post-Move code and the stalemated subroutine I gave you, I had to make sure that last_type_moved was updated before testing whether the King was in check.

With these changes made, all my tests worked. I created a position in which the White Joker was on a diagonal with the Black King. When White moved a piece with a diagonal move, it put Black in check. After blocking with a Knight, I was able to move the Knight away on the next turn. With the King in check again, the Knight could block, capture the Joker, or move to another space, which would end the check by changing the powers of the Joker. With the King not in check, the only legal move for one Bishop was to go between the Joker and the King, and the other Bishop, the Archbishop, and the Queen had no legal moves, because moving any would place the King in check.


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