Amusement devices: games – Board games – pieces – or boards therefor – Piece moves over board having pattern
Patent
1992-10-14
1994-04-26
Stoll, William
Amusement devices: games
Board games, pieces, or boards therefor
Piece moves over board having pattern
A63F 302
Patent
active
053060172
ABSTRACT:
The invention is a game of tactics and strategy, played on a special ten-square by ten-square checkered board of 100 alternately colored squares, with twenty pieces likened to figures of the American Civil War, on each of two opposing sides. Twenty Civil War playing pieces are alloted to each opposing player. While many of those pieces have traditional chess-type playing moves and capture strategy, some of the pieces, such as a gunboat on each side, have particularly unique moves that have no parallel in conventional chess. For example, a gunboat may not enter a thirty-six square restricted zone located at the interior of the board. A gunboat may, however, capture pieces within this restricted zone. Players, including the President, may board the gunboat, and with the President aboard the gunboat's moveability is the combination of the gunboat and the President's normal moves. With other players aboard, the gunboat's moves are simply its own; and, thus, the boarded gunboat does not have a combination of movement as it does when the President is aboard.
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"Grand Chess", Games Magazine, Jan. 1987, p. 44.
Huston & Huston
Jones Stan
Stoll William
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