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Aurelian Florea wrote on Fri, Jun 24, 2022 10:25 AM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from Wed Dec 29 2021 10:00 PM:

@HG,

In these games:

https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game=Grand+Apothecary+Chess+1&settings=Applet

https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game=Grand+Apothecary+Chess+2&settings=Applet

https://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php?game=Grand+Apothecary+Chess+3&settings=Applet

castling is supposed to work like described here:

https://www.chessvariants.com/rules/grand-apothecary-chess-alert

https://www.chessvariants.com/rules/grand-apothecary-chess-classic

https://www.chessvariants.com/rules/grand-apothecary-chess-modern

but it does not. It just give fast castling with the rook. I see that this line:

set partners (b2 k2 b13 k13);

should contain the cannons initial position also. That is easy to solve. But I have no idea about the fast castling. May you help me with making the necessary modifications?