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Atomic chess bug -- white pawn blew up after white queen captured

I had a game a couple of days ago where a pawn blew up that shouldn't have blown up. (Please no commentary on the game itself. It's pretty embarrassing but I was also severely distracted while playing.)

It's this game:



You'll see when white moves on move 8 that a white pawn blows up that should not have. (It's clearly not just a visual because on black's next move the rook moves through the position where the pawn was.)

Strangely, if one replays the game move-for-move using the lichess analysis board, the pawn on c4 does not blow up. Clearly something buggy happened. But I don't know what. Any ideas?
@j1q If you're meaning that the pawn on c4 shouldn't have blown up, you're wrong. Atomic rules state that a pawn will not explode if another piece other than the pawn causes an explosion that holds that pawn in the radius of it. You however, took with the pawn, therefore it will explode. Look up the rules of Atomic if my explanation doesn't make sense. Hope this helps.
The transcription says you played 8. cxb5, which means you didn't take with the queen
Oh, wow. Thanks. You're right. It says I took with the pawn, not the queen. I could have sworn I took with the queen, not the pawn. If I took with the pawn that makes total sense. I can still "see" this play in my head and could have sworn I took with queen but I must be mistaken. I was distracted. Thanks for solving a little personal mystery.
Shouldn't have made that move anyway, and how do you forget what you move in a rapid game, you could just check the last move again

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