Better Ball rules. Buggish but almost OK Synchrone variant

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  | Capture the ball, pass it among your pieces and bring it to the
  | center of the last rank.

p.
  At the beginning, there is a ball in the center of the 9x9 board.
  It doesn't move. The first piece to capture it will then hold the ball.

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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.

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.

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  figcaption Left: before fxe5 (taking ball). Right: after fxe5.

p.
  The piece sitting next to the queen is a champion (H).
  It moves by jumping two squares in any direction (potentially over pieces),
  or one square orthogonally.

h3 End of the game

p.
  The goal is to bring a piece holding the ball in one of the three
  central squares of the opposite side (files d, e or f).

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  figcaption.
    Left: before g2Pe2 (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.
  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.