[alanfalcon]

I wondered about this recently and assumed one reason this sort of thing doesn't catch on for mainstream sports like football (soccer) or basketball is because it'd be a mess to spectate/broadcast. Sounds fun though!

[billfruit]

Incidentally there seems to be a chess/draughts like game rather inspired by football, called Diabolik.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaballik