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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. |
| 8 | |
| 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. |
| 14 | |
| 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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| 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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| 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. |