I'm at a far corner of my house, and my chess board is at the same spot, but upstairs.
The walking space in my house is fairly linear and the stairs are at the far end from here.
I'm not running the entire span of my house every single move.
1. d4 e6
2. e4 Nf6
3. Nc3 c6
4. a3 g6
5. Nf3 b5
6. b4 a6
7. ...oh
So.. I uh, might have put your pawn on a5 by mistake and... said my move by relation, rather than figuring out the tile.
So game winds back to move seven, get one illegal move penalty (tallying up all errors before then, that's two for both of us now, but we aren't using timers so this isn't all that important), and regardless of whether or not this is "touch move" I can make any (legal) move I want as my b pawn (the "touched" piece) has no legal moves in the current board state.
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