Another Atomic Glitch With Connected Kings + Potential Workaround

https://www.chess.com/variants/atomic/game/11384443

In this game the site did not allow me to play king to 47. Kb4, which would be the typical way of winning this position on freechess or lichess. I had to invent a different way to win over the board which, interestingly enough, used the fact that you apparently can't move into "check" despite having the kings connected. Normally I am sure Opabinia would have played 53... Kb4 or 54... Kb4 in these positions, but the game again wouldn't allow him to move into check despite the kings remaining connected, meaning he had to play in a way that allowed a quick king explosion. I didn't have to allow 54... Kb4 and could have just played 54. Ka7 but I thought this move would be funnier in game since it abused the glitch again.

This is a fairly standard end game situation to have, so it's kind of annoying to have this bug. In the meantime however, this method with putting the queen 2 squares to the side of the black pawn (in this example the blocked pawns are on a4 and a5) and the king one square away from it appears to be a good way to win in spite of the glitch whether the black king is on d4, c4 or b4 no matter who's move it is.

For example, with the black king on d4 with white to move, 1. Kb6 Kc5 2. Ka7 Kb6 3. Qxa5# works, and with black to move this same series of moves works after 1... Kc4 2. Kb6 Kc5 3. Ka7 Kb6 4. Qxa5#

We just looked at the position with the black king starting on c4 with the white king to move above, where it moved from d4 to c4, so now we look at the position with black to move and the black king on c4. Here we have 1... Kd4, which goes into the other line we just looked at with the black king on d4 and white to move, and 1... Kb4. After this, we again get the line 1... Kb4 2. Kb6 Kc5 3. Ka7 Kb6 4. Qxa5#.

Finally, there are the positions with the black king starting on b4. We've just looked at the positions with white to move in our lines above, so all that's left to analyze are the positions with black to move first. Again, we've looked at the positions that occur after 1... Kc4 above, and since 1... Kb5 is illegal due to the glitch mentioned above, we can conclude that this is an effective method to force the kings to separate in these types of endings while this glitch is in place.

I am sure there are other positions where this glitch certainly changes the result of the position however, so it would be great if it could be fixed.

>did not allow me to play king to 47. Kb4
This was fixed with the update yesterday
https://www.chess.com/variants/atomic/game/11384443/93/1

I think he meant white cannot play Kb4

for some reason it still cannot

oh. good point.

Mkay, found it, fixed it (problem exists when a pawn covers the square).
Will go out next update (sometime next week)

Thanks for the prompt reply spacebar! I look forward to seeing how the chess.com atomic community develops once these final few issues get ironed out. And yes, tacticspotter was correct, that was the issue I was referring to. I checked to see if anyone had reported this particular bug before, but it seemed like it might be different since it occurred after these previous bugs had been fixed.

fyi, updated