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Apothecary Chess-Classic. Large board variant obtained through tinkering with known games.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Aurelian Florea wrote on Wed, Mar 25, 2020 05:12 AM UTC:

First there is no castling in this game.

I realize I have to give more details regarding the joker. The rule is that it imitates the last move of the opponent. And this rule has that pawns issue.

On your question Greg. The switch of the imitated piece is when the move is completed. In this case the bishop move would be illegal because it places the black king in check.

About the en passant thing. This is something I have not thought properly. The philosophy behind this brings at least 2 cases.

1. the joker does not capture en passant ever as en passant is a property of a pawn and not a move. As I had decided that joker may not promote this should be the case.

2.  the joker may capture en passant at the 6th rank like any pawn.

I prefer 1 but I'd like a small comment.