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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 steals it,
  12     and either capture the piece by replacement or leave it in place:
  13     choose the option "D" for "distant".
  14     In place captures cannot be undone by opponent.
  15   li.
  16     "Capturing" a friendly unit pass the ball to it, or take the ball
  17     from it. In both cases the pieces don't move.
  18
  19 p.
  20   All pieces represent players on a field of some ball game,
  21   so they can move up to three squares only for a better realism.
  22
  23 p.
  24   To balance the advantage of ball possession, the piece holding the ball
  25   cannot capture enemy pieces.
  26
  27 figure.diagram-container
  28   .diagram.diag12
  29     | fen:1bnrqrnhb/ppppppppp/2h6/9/4a4/5P3/9/PPPPP1PPP/HBNRQRNHB:
  30   .diagram.diag22
  31     | fen:1bnrqrnhb/ppppppppp/2h6/9/4S4/9/9/PPPPP1PPP/HBNRQRNHB:
  32   figcaption Left: before fxe5 (taking ball). Right: after fxe5.
  33
  34 p
  35   | The new piece represented by an upside-down knight is a
  36   a(href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(chess)") Phoenix (H)
  37   | . It moves by jumping two squares diagonally (potentially over pieces),
  38   | or one square orthogonally.
  39
  40 h3 End of the game
  41
  42 p.
  43   The goal is to bring a piece holding the ball in one of the three
  44   central squares of the opposite side (files d, e or f).
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  46 figure.diagram-container
  47   .diagram.diag12
  48     | fen:3rn1r2/1pp3pbp/2hp2n2/p1b1pp1p1/P6P1/2N3i1P/1PP2N3/1RB1qP3/1R2BH1HQ:
  49   .diagram.diag22
  50     | fen:3rn1r2/1pp3pbp/2hp2n2/p1b1pp1p1/P6P1/2N3h1P/1PP2N3/1RB1tP3/1R2BH1HQ:
  51   figcaption.
  52     Left: before g4Pe2 (passing the ball).
  53     Right: after the move. Then ...Q(x)d1# cannot be prevented.
  54
  55 p.
  56   The black phoenix on g4 passes the ball to the black queen on e2.
  57   Victory is then garanteed by playing a queen move on the first rank.
  58
  59 h3 Source
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  61 p
  62   | A friend and I talked some day (in 2019) about a variant where pieces
  63   | would hit a ball to bring it to the opposite side.
  64   | This version is inspired by these preliminary trials,
  65   | because hitting the ball led to somewhat blocked situations.
  66   | Indeed in
  67   a(href="https://www.chessvariants.com/crossover.dir/football.html")
  68     | Football Chess
  69   | &nbsp;mentioned on chessvariants, the ball could have very limited
  70   | movements on the edges or corners.