Attempt to clarify installation instructions a little
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2 | Capture the ball, pass it among your pieces and bring it to the
3 | center of the last rank.
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6 At the beginning, there is a ball in the center of the 9x9 board.
7 It doesn't move. The first piece to capture it will then hold the ball.
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10 li.
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11 "Capturing" an enemy unit holding the ball steals it,
12 and either capture the piece by replacement or leave it in place:
13 choose the option "D" for "distant".
14 In place captures cannot be undone by opponent.
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15 li.
16 "Capturing" a friendly unit pass the ball to it, or take the ball
17 from it. In both cases the pieces don't move.
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19p.
20 All pieces represent players on a field of some ball game,
94b9fcef 21 so they can move up to three squares only for a better realism.
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23p.
24 To balance the advantage of ball possession, the piece holding the ball
25 cannot capture enemy pieces.
26
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27figure.diagram-container
28 .diagram.diag12
61656127 29 | fen:1bnrqrnhb/ppppppppp/2h6/9/4a4/5P3/9/PPPPP1PPP/HBNRQRNHB:
6f2f9437 30 .diagram.diag22
61656127 31 | fen:1bnrqrnhb/ppppppppp/2h6/9/4S4/9/9/PPPPP1PPP/HBNRQRNHB:
d54f6261 32 figcaption Left: before fxe5 (taking ball). Right: after fxe5.
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61656127 35 | The new piece represented by an upside-down knight is a
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36 a(href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(chess)") Phoenix (H)
37 | . It moves by jumping two squares diagonally (potentially over pieces),
38 | or one square orthogonally.
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39
40h3 End of the game
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42p.
43 The goal is to bring a piece holding the ball in one of the three
44 central squares of the opposite side (files d, e or f).
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46figure.diagram-container
47 .diagram.diag12
2c5d7b20 48 | fen:3rn1r2/1pp3pbp/2hp2n2/p1b1pp1p1/P6P1/2N3i1P/1PP2N3/1RB1qP3/1R2BH1HQ:
6f2f9437 49 .diagram.diag22
2c5d7b20 50 | fen:3rn1r2/1pp3pbp/2hp2n2/p1b1pp1p1/P6P1/2N3h1P/1PP2N3/1RB1tP3/1R2BH1HQ:
6f2f9437 51 figcaption.
2c5d7b20 52 Left: before g4Pe2 (passing the ball).
d54f6261 53 Right: after the move. Then ...Q(x)d1# cannot be prevented.
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2c5d7b20 56 The black phoenix on g4 passes the ball to the black queen on e2.
d54f6261 57 Victory is then garanteed by playing a queen move on the first rank.
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59h3 Source
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62 | A friend and I talked some day (in 2019) about a variant where pieces
63 | would hit a ball to bring it to the opposite side.
e9c9954f 64 | This version is inspired by these preliminary trials.