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   2   | Capture the ball, pass it among your pieces and bring it to the
   3   | center of the last rank.
   4
   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.
  16
  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.
  20
  21 p.
  22   To balance the advantage of ball possession, the piece holding the ball
  23   cannot capture enemy pieces.
  24
  25 figure.diagram-container
  26   .diagram.diag12
  27     | fen:1bnrqrnhb/ppppppppp/2h6/9/4a4/5P3/9/PPPPP1PPP/HBNRQRNHB:
  28   .diagram.diag22
  29     | fen:1bnrqrnhb/ppppppppp/2h6/9/4S4/9/9/PPPPP1PPP/HBNRQRNHB:
  30   figcaption Left: before fxe5 (taking ball). Right: after fxe5.
  31
  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.
  37
  38 h3 End of the game
  39
  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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  44 figure.diagram-container
  45   .diagram.diag12
  46     | fen:3rn1r2/1pp3pbp/2hp2n2/p1b1pp1p1/P6P1/2N3i1P/1PP2N3/1RB1qP3/1R2BH1HQ:
  47   .diagram.diag22
  48     | fen:3rn1r2/1pp3pbp/2hp2n2/p1b1pp1p1/P6P1/2N3h1P/1PP2N3/1RB1tP3/1R2BH1HQ:
  49   figcaption.
  50     Left: before g4Pe2 (passing the ball).
  51     Right: after the move. Then ...Q(x)d1# cannot be prevented.
  52
  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.
  56
  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   | &nbsp;mentioned on chessvariants, the ball could have very limited
  68   | movements on the edges or corners.