The Joker explained

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stevehinkle10 wrote:
evert823 wrote:
evert823 wrote:

If the opponent has promoted a pawn, the Joker inherits movement and normal capture abilities from the piece it promoted to.

I found another inventor of the Joker who implemented this point in the same way here:

http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=51616

I came up with a new scenario that still must be clarified:

White moves a pawn to the last rank and promotes the pawn to a Joker. Now it's Black's move and Black has a Joker. What is Black's Joker now imitating?

I'll give this a thought.

Maybe it could pretend to be a pawn...

I agree

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Let's look at this position white to move. Assume that it continues:

1. Ng4  b1J (chooses to promote to Joker)

At this moment the black Joker imitates the last piece that white had played and that's a Knight.

So the white Joker now imitates whatever piece the black Joker is imitating, again a Knight.

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Oh, makes sense.