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   2   | Similar to Checkers, with prisoners stacked below capturers.
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   4 figure.diagram-container
   5   img.img-center(src="/variants/Emergo/match_2004_U-con.jpg")
   6   figcaption.text-center.
   7     [Wikipedia]
   8     Game played on an orthogonal depiction of a standard 9x9 Emergo board.
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  11   | Nothing disappears in this game: captured pieces become part of the
  12   | capturing unit. Therefore, a piece or unit will always be understood
  13   | as a combination of W white (elementary) pieces and B (elementary) black
  14   | ones, with
  15   br
  16   | W >= 0, B >= 0 and W + B >= 1.
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  19   | The 9x9 board is initially empty.
  20   | Each player receives 12 stackable pieces, "in hand".
  21   | At each turn, a player must pick an action among the followings:
  22   ul
  23     li Enter a new piece (W + B = 1) on the board.
  24     li Move a unit along diagonals, by one square.
  25     li Capture something.
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  27 h3 Entering moves
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  29 p.
  30   Introducing a piece such that the opponent can take it on next turn is
  31   forbidden, unless another capture is already available.
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  33 p At first move, white cannot place a piece at the central point.
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  35 p.
  36   If the opponent already placed all his pieces in hand, then a
  37   "shadow piece" enters, formed by all the remaining units available
  38   (thus in this case W + B > 1).
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  40 p.
  41   While you have pieces in hand, none of your pieces can move on the board
  42   unless they capture something.
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  44 h3 Captures
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  46 p.
  47   Captures work exactly as in Checkers: by jumping over a diagonally adjacent
  48   piece to land on a free square just behind.
  49   If a capture is possible, then it must be played; in this case no piece can
  50   be introduced on the board.
  51   If after a capture another is possible with the same piece, it must also be
  52   played &mdash; except if that implies turning at 180 degrees.
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  54 figure.diagram-container
  55   .diagram.diag12
  56     | fen:9/9/2a@1a@4/9/4a@4/3D@5/9/5A@3/6b@2 e3:
  57   .diagram.diag22
  58     | fen:9/9/2a@1a@4/9/4a@4/3D@5/4ba4/9/9:
  59   figcaption.
  60     Before and after black captures, jumping at the marked location.
  61     The next white piece must be captured too.
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  63 p.
  64   Captures can be described formally as follows.
  65   If, as white, W1/B1 jumps over W2/B2 at square S2 to land on S1', then
  66   W1/(B1+1) arrives on S1' while W2/(B2-1) stays on S2.
  67   If W2 = B2 - 1 = 0, nothing remains at the captured unit location.
  68   As black: exchange W and B.
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  70 p.
  71   In other words, each unit is a stack of friendly and enemy pieces, with
  72   friendly pieces on top. After each capture, the prisoners part of the
  73   stack is incremented, while the jailers quantity at the captured
  74   location decreases by one.
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  76 p.
  77   When several capturing chains are available,
  78   the player must select one of the longest (as in Checkers):
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  80 figure.diagram-container
  81   .diagram
  82     | fen:9/9/2a@1a@4/9/2bb1a@4/3C@5/9/9/9:
  83   figcaption.
  84     From https://www.mindsports.nl/:
  85     White's only option is to capture clockwise.
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  87 p.
  88   A piece can be jumped over several times, as long as it contains
  89   at least one enemy unit (controling it).
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  91 h3 More information
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  93 p
  94   | You are invited to visit the
  95   a(href="https://www.mindsports.nl/index.php/arena/emergo/88-rules")
  96     | authors' website
  97   | . The rules are also described on
  98   a(href="http://www.iggamecenter.com/info/en/emergo.html") iggamecenter
  99   | , where you can play Emergo.
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 101 p Inventors: Christian Freeling and Ed van Zon (1986)