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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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5 p.
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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9 ul
10 li.
11 Capturing an enemy unit holding the ball both make the piece
12 disappear and grab the ball.
13 li.
14 "Capturing" a friendly unit pass the ball to it, or take the ball
15 from it. In both cases the pieces don't move.
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17 p.
18 All pieces represent players on a field of some ball game,
19 so they can move up to three squares only for a better realism.
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21 p.
22 To balance the advantage of ball possession, the piece holding the ball
23 cannot capture enemy pieces.
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25 figure.diagram-container
26 .diagram.diag12
27 | fen:1bnrqrnhb/ppppppppp/2h6/9/4a4/5P3/9/PPPPP1PPP/HBNRQRNHB:
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29 | fen:1bnrqrnhb/ppppppppp/2h6/9/4S4/9/9/PPPPP1PPP/HBNRQRNHB:
30 figcaption Left: before fxe5 (taking ball). Right: after fxe5.
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32 p
33 | The new piece represented by an upside-down knight is a
34 a(href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(chess)") Phoenix (H)
35 | . It moves by jumping two squares diagonally (potentially over pieces),
36 | or one square orthogonally.
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38 h3 End of the game
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40 p.
41 The goal is to bring a piece holding the ball in one of the three
42 central squares of the opposite side (files d, e or f).
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49 figcaption.
50 Left: before g4Pe2 (passing the ball).
51 Right: after the move. Then ...Q(x)d1# cannot be prevented.
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53 p.
54 The black phoenix on g4 passes the ball to the black queen on e2.
55 Victory is then garanteed by playing a queen move on the first rank.
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57 h3 Source
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59 p
60 | A friend and I talked some day (in 2019) about a variant where pieces
61 | would hit a ball to bring it to the opposite side.
62 | This version is inspired by these preliminary trials,
63 | because hitting the ball led to somewhat blocked situations.
64 | Indeed in
65 a(href="https://www.chessvariants.com/crossover.dir/football.html")
66 | Football Chess
67 |  mentioned on chessvariants, the ball could have very limited
68 | movements on the edges or corners.