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li.
- Capturing an enemy unit holding the ball both make the piece
- disappear and grab the ball.
- li "Capturing" a friendly unit pass the ball to it.
+ "Capturing" an enemy unit holding the ball steals it,
+ and either capture the piece by replacement or leave it in place:
+ choose the option "D" for "distant".
+ In place captures cannot be undone by opponent.
+ li.
+ "Capturing" a friendly unit pass the ball to it, or take the ball
+ from it. In both cases the pieces don't move.
p.
All pieces represent players on a field of some ball game,
- so they can move up to two squares only for a better realism.
+ so they can move up to three squares only for a better realism.
+
+p.
+ To balance the advantage of ball possession, the piece holding the ball
+ cannot capture enemy pieces.
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- | fen:rnbcq1nbr/ppppppppp/5c3/9/4a4/5P3/9/PPPPP1PPP/RNBCQCNBR:
+ | fen:1bnrqrnhb/ppppppppp/2h6/9/4a4/5P3/9/PPPPP1PPP/HBNRQRNHB:
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- | fen:rnbcq1nbr/ppppppppp/5c3/9/4S4/9/9/PPPPP1PPP/RNBCQCNBR:
+ | fen:1bnrqrnhb/ppppppppp/2h6/9/4S4/9/9/PPPPP1PPP/HBNRQRNHB:
figcaption Left: before fxe5 (taking ball). Right: after fxe5.
-p.
- The piece sitting next to the queen is a Champion (C).
- It moves by jumping two squares in any direction (potentially over pieces),
- or one square orthogonally.
+p
+ | The new piece represented by an upside-down knight is a
+ a(href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(chess)") Phoenix (H)
+ | . It moves by jumping two squares diagonally (potentially over pieces),
+ | or one square orthogonally.
h3 End of the game
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+ | fen:3rn1r2/1pp3pbp/2hp2n2/p1b1pp1p1/P6P1/2N3i1P/1PP2N3/1RB1qP3/1R2BH1HQ:
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+ | fen:3rn1r2/1pp3pbp/2hp2n2/p1b1pp1p1/P6P1/2N3h1P/1PP2N3/1RB1tP3/1R2BH1HQ:
figcaption.
- Left: before g2Pe2 (passing the ball).
+ Left: before g4Pe2 (passing the ball).
Right: after the move. Then ...Q(x)d1# cannot be prevented.
p.
- The black champion on g2 passes the ball to the black queen on e2.
+ The black phoenix on g4 passes the ball to the black queen on e2.
Victory is then garanteed by playing a queen move on the first rank.
h3 Source
-p.
- A friend and I talked some day (in 2019) about a variant where pieces
- would hit a ball to bring it to the opposite side.
- This version is inspired by these preliminary trials,
- because hitting the ball led to somewhat blocked situations.
+p
+ | A friend and I talked some day (in 2019) about a variant where pieces
+ | would hit a ball to bring it to the opposite side.
+ | This version is inspired by these preliminary trials,
+ | because hitting the ball led to somewhat blocked situations.
+ | Indeed in
+ a(href="https://www.chessvariants.com/crossover.dir/football.html")
+ | Football Chess
+ | mentioned on chessvariants, the ball could have very limited
+ | movements on the edges or corners.