Fix Emergo. Add Avalam 1 & 2

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 p.boxed
   | Similar to Checkers, with prisoners stacked below capturers.
 
 p.boxed
   | Similar to Checkers, with prisoners stacked below capturers.
 

+figure.diagram-container
+  img.img-center(src="/variants/Emergo/match_2004_U-con.jpg")
+  figcaption.text-center.
+    Game played on an orthogonal depiction of a standard 9x9 Emergo board.
+
+p
+  | Nothing disappears in this game: captured pieces become part of the
+  | capturing unit. Therefore, a piece or unit will always be understood
+  | as a combination of W white (elementary) pieces and B (elementary) black
+  | ones, with
+  br
+  | W >= 0, B >= 0 and W + B >= 1.
+

 p
   | The 9x9 board is initially empty.
   | Each player receives 12 stackable pieces, "in hand".
 p
   | The 9x9 board is initially empty.
   | Each player receives 12 stackable pieces, "in hand".

-  | At each turn, a player must either
+  | At each turn, a player must pick an action among the followings:

   ul
   ul

-    li.
-      Enter a new piece on the board such that the opponent cannot capture it.
-      However, if a capture is already possible before the move, then
-      the piece can be dropped anywhere.
-      White cannot place a piece in the center at move 1.
-    li Play a move on the board, along diagonals.
+    li Enter a new piece (W + B = 1) on the board.
+    li Move a unit along diagonals, by one square.
+    li Capture something.
+
+h3 Entering moves
+
+p.
+  Introducing a piece such that the opponent can take it on next turn is
+  forbidden, unless another capture is already available.
+
+p At first move, white cannot place a piece at the central point.
+
+p.
+  If the opponent already placed all his pieces in hand, then a
+  "shadow piece" enters, formed by all the remaining units available
+  (thus in this case W + B > 1).
+
+h3 Captures

 
 p.
 
 p.

-  Simple moves are Ferz moves: one step diagonally.

   Captures work exactly as in Checkers: by jumping over a diagonally adjacent
   piece to land on a free square just behind.
   Captures work exactly as in Checkers: by jumping over a diagonally adjacent
   piece to land on a free square just behind.

-  However, the resulting situation is more complex. See below.

   If a capture is possible, then it must be played; in this case no piece can
   be introduced on the board.
   If a capture is possible, then it must be played; in this case no piece can
   be introduced on the board.

+  If after a capture another is possible with the same piece, it must also be
+  played — except if that implies turning at 180 degrees.

 
 

-p TODO: diagram
+figure.diagram-container
+  .diagram.diag12
+    | fen:9/9/2a@1a@4/9/4a@4/3D@5/9/5A@3/6b@2 e3:
+  .diagram.diag22
+    | fen:9/9/2a@1a@4/9/4a@4/3D@5/4ba4/9/9:
+  figcaption.
+    Before and after black captures, jumping at the marked location.
+    The next white piece must be captured too.

 
 p.
 
 p.

-  Let us consider each unit as a compound entity containing W white pieces
-  and B black ones (initially W = 1 and B = 0 for white units,
-  and vice-versa for black).
-  Captures can then be described formally as follows.
-
-p.
-  As white:
-  If W1/B1 jumps over W2/B2 at square S2 to land on S1', then
-  W1/(B1+1) arrives on S1' and W2/(B2-1) remains on S2.
+  Captures can be described formally as follows.
+  If, as white, W1/B1 jumps over W2/B2 at square S2 to land on S1', then
+  W1/(B1+1) arrives on S1' while W2/(B2-1) stays on S2.

   If W2 = B2 - 1 = 0, nothing remains at the captured unit location.
   If W2 = B2 - 1 = 0, nothing remains at the captured unit location.

-  As black: exchange W and B above.
+  As black: exchange W and B.

 
 p.
   In other words, each unit is a stack of friendly and enemy pieces, with
   friendly pieces on top. After each capture, the prisoners part of the
 
 p.
   In other words, each unit is a stack of friendly and enemy pieces, with
   friendly pieces on top. After each capture, the prisoners part of the

-  stack is incremented, while the "jailers" counterpart at the captured
+  stack is incremented, while the jailers quantity at the captured

   location decreases by one.
 
 p.
   When several capturing chains are available,
   location decreases by one.
 
 p.
   When several capturing chains are available,

-  the player has to select one of the longest (as in Checkers).
+  the player must select one of the longest (as in Checkers):
+
+figure.diagram-container
+  .diagram
+    | fen:9/9/2a@1a@4/9/2bb1a@4/3C@5/9/9/9:
+  figcaption.
+    From https://www.mindsports.nl/:
+    White's only option is to capture clockwise.

 
 

-p TODO: diagram (from mindsports.nl)
+p.
+  A piece can be jumped over several times, as long as it contains
+  at least one enemy unit (controling it).

 
 h3 More information
 
 p
 
 h3 More information
 
 p

-  | See the 
+  | You are invited to visit the 

   a(href="https://www.mindsports.nl/index.php/arena/emergo/88-rules")
   a(href="https://www.mindsports.nl/index.php/arena/emergo/88-rules")

-    | Emergo page
-  |  on the author's website.
-  | Rules are also described on 
+    | authors' website
+  | . The rules are also described on 

   a(href="http://www.iggamecenter.com/info/en/emergo.html") iggamecenter
   a(href="http://www.iggamecenter.com/info/en/emergo.html") iggamecenter

-  | , where you can also play this game.
+  | , where you can play Emergo.

 
 p Inventors: Christian Freeling and Ed van Zon (1986)
 
 p Inventors: Christian Freeling and Ed van Zon (1986)