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> That's just a coincidence. Your supercall is ought to be: super().move()
> In contrast, super().move(self) calls the superclass instance method
> `move` with 2 arguments, both `self`, which just happens to work given
> your move() method, inside which `cls` isn't actually a class like it
> ought to be.

Thank you! This is the whole reason I tried using a class method in the fir=
st place. I was getting an error that said my move method only takes one ar=
gument, but I was passing in two.

But if I make the super call as super().move(), how does that work? The mov=
e method in the superclass takes an argument, and if I just do super().move=
(), isn't it the subclass that's getting passed to it? How does the supercl=
ass move method know what 'self' is if it doesn't get passed to it as I did=
 originally?