Amusement devices: games – Board games – pieces – or boards therefor – Piece moves over board having pattern
Patent
1997-04-03
1998-05-12
Layno, Benjamin H.
Amusement devices: games
Board games, pieces, or boards therefor
Piece moves over board having pattern
273260, 273284, A63F 302
Patent
active
057495831
ABSTRACT:
A new Apparatus and Method of Playing An Expanded Chess Game for adding new challenges to the traditional game of chess and increasing the interest in the game of chess. The inventive device includes a rectangular game board having a playing surface consisting of sixteen rows and sixteen columns of alternating colored squares, a reducer having four lateral sides in surrounding relationship with a rectangular aperture formed between the lateral sides, the reducer being positionable upon the rectangular game board and forming a reduced playing surface consisting of twelve rows and twelve columns of alternating colored squares, a first set of game pieces for play upon the playing surface consisting of a king, a queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, thirty two pawns and two each of new pieces knight-3, knight-2, bishop-3 and bishop-2, and a second set of game pieces for play upon the playing surface consisting of a king, a queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, thirty two pawns and two each of new pieces knight-3, knight-2, bishop-3 and bishop-2, the second set of game pieces being distinguishable from the first set of game pieces. The movement of the new pieces is governed by new rules while the pieces from the traditional chess game operate according to the rules of a traditional chess game with the exception that the castling move is modified and the king has an additional move. A subset of the first set of game pieces and a subset of the second set of game pieces are used for play upon the reduced playing surface.
REFERENCES:
patent: 1674553 (1928-06-01), Templeton
patent: 3610626 (1971-10-01), Nolte
patent: 4856789 (1989-08-01), Carlson
patent: 5275414 (1994-01-01), Stephens et al.
patent: 5280913 (1994-01-01), Sirk
patent: 5642885 (1997-07-01), Gustin
Sadounichvili Larisa
Sadounichvili Tengiz
LandOfFree
Apparatus and method of playing an expanded chess game does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.
If you have personal experience with Apparatus and method of playing an expanded chess game, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Apparatus and method of playing an expanded chess game will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-973926