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   2   | Similar to Checkers, with prisoners stacked below capturers.
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   5   | The 9x9 board is initially empty.
   6   | Each player receives 12 stackable pieces, "in hand".
   7   | At each turn, a player must either
   8   ul
   9     li.
  10       Enter a new piece on the board such that the opponent cannot capture it.
  11       However, if a capture is already possible before the move, then
  12       the piece can be dropped anywhere.
  13       White cannot place a piece in the center at move 1.
  14     li Play a move on the board, along diagonals.
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  17   Simple moves are Ferz moves: one step diagonally.
  18   Captures work exactly as in Checkers: by jumping over a diagonally adjacent
  19   piece to land on a free square just behind.
  20   However, the resulting situation is more complex. See below.
  21   If a capture is possible, then it must be played; in this case no piece can
  22   be introduced on the board.
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  24 p TODO: diagram
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  26 p.
  27   Let us consider each unit as a compound entity containing W white pieces
  28   and B black ones (initially W = 1 and B = 0 for white units,
  29   and vice-versa for black).
  30   Captures can then be described formally as follows.
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  32 p.
  33   As white:
  34   If W1/B1 jumps over W2/B2 at square S2 to land on S1', then
  35   W1/(B1+1) arrives on S1' and W2/(B2-1) remains on S2.
  36   If W2 = B2 - 1 = 0, nothing remains at the captured unit location.
  37   As black: exchange W and B above.
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  39 p.
  40   In other words, each unit is a stack of friendly and enemy pieces, with
  41   friendly pieces on top. After each capture, the prisoners part of the
  42   stack is incremented, while the "jailers" counterpart at the captured
  43   location decreases by one.
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  45 p.
  46   When several capturing chains are available,
  47   the player has to select one of the longest (as in Checkers).
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  49 p TODO: diagram (from mindsports.nl)
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  51 h3 More information
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  54   | See the
  55   a(href="https://www.mindsports.nl/index.php/arena/emergo/88-rules")
  56     | Emergo page
  57   | &nbsp;on the author's website.
  58   | Rules are also described on
  59   a(href="http://www.iggamecenter.com/info/en/emergo.html") iggamecenter
  60   | , where you can also play this game.
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  62 p Inventors: Christian Freeling and Ed van Zon (1986)