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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 "Capturing" a friendly unit pass the ball to it.
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  15 p.
  16   All pieces represent players on a field of some ball game,
  17   so they can move up to two squares only for a better realism.
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  19 figure.diagram-container
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  23     | fen:rnbhq1nbr/ppppppppp/3h5/9/4S4/9/9/PPPPP1PPP/RNBHQHNBR:
  24   figcaption Left: before fxe5 (taking ball). Right: after fxe5.
  25
  26 p
  27   | The piece sitting next to the queen is a
  28   a(href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(chess)") Phoenix (H)
  29   | . It moves by jumping two squares diagonally (potentially over pieces),
  30   | or one square orthogonally.
  31
  32 h3 End of the game
  33
  34 p.
  35   The goal is to bring a piece holding the ball in one of the three
  36   central squares of the opposite side (files d, e or f).
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  38 figure.diagram-container
  39   .diagram.diag12
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  41   .diagram.diag22
  42     | fen:3rn1r2/1pp3pbp/2hp2n2/p1b1pp1p1/P6P1/2N3h1P/1PP2N3/1RB1tP3/1R2BH1HQ:
  43   figcaption.
  44     Left: before g4Pe2 (passing the ball).
  45     Right: after the move. Then ...Q(x)d1# cannot be prevented.
  46
  47 p.
  48   The black phoenix on g4 passes the ball to the black queen on e2.
  49   Victory is then garanteed by playing a queen move on the first rank.
  50
  51 h3 Source
  52
  53 p.
  54   A friend and I talked some day (in 2019) about a variant where pieces
  55   would hit a ball to bring it to the opposite side.
  56   This version is inspired by these preliminary trials,
  57   because hitting the ball led to somewhat blocked situations.