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Baseball Chess 9x9, The Diamond. Baselines are different    LF__CF__RF
in Baseball Chess than in outdoor grass Baseball.  Recall   SS__PI__2B 
Homeplate for Black is White Catcher-King's nonant          3B__CA__1B
(d1,d2,d3,e1,e2,e3,f1,f2,f3), and 'e2' its central          RNBKQCBNR
square.  Diagonal 'e2-d3-c4-b5' and Diagonal 'e2-f3-g4-h5' are
Baselines.  Corresponding baselines from White's Homeplate are
'e8-d7-c6-b5' and 'e8-f7-g6-h5'. Connecting them all forms a square,
tilted into the BaseballChess Diamond shape, with vertices e2, h5, e8, and b5. There are four cells per side, diagonally connected, and all together 12 spaces to move circumnavigating the Baselines. The Diamond in B.C. is this system of 12 adjacent ''transporter'' squares (after Novo Chess), completed called the Basepath(s). The Diamond is the Basepath synonymously. Travel along Diamond can entail one, two, or three 90-degree changes of direction, never four. (zzz) Any piece or Pawn landing on a Basepath square may proceed the same turn along it either Clockwise or CCW any distance of vacant squares without capturing.  They may capture only upon reaching the Diamond, not moving along it.  (aaaa) 'zzz' and capture upon arrival at Basepath voids the rounding leg. (bbbb) 'aaaa' and if in own nonant, player-piece may capture in rounding the Basepaths. The turn ends with the capture. Note Basepaths pass through four of the 9 nonants:  Catcher's, Bishop-Shortstop's, Cardinal-CenterFielder's, & Bishop-SecondBaseman's. (cccc) 'bbbb', Pawns may avail Basepath travel only without 90-degree change of direction, so maximum of three steps. (dddd) 'zzz', Pitcher-Queen is prohibited from Diamond transportation.  (eeee) 'zzz', King & Queen prohibited. (ffff) 'zzz' with only strictly CounterClockwise circulation, as in living Baseball. [Recall that ''Stolen Bases'' at ''rr' to 'uu' regulate individual cells b2, b8, h2 and h8, outside the Diamond, for teleporting, up to 2 Stolen Bases at once. Ordinarily Teams would select one of either those Mutators 'rr-uu' or these 'zzz-ffff', not both, for their Rules in a contest.]