Amusement devices: games – Board games – pieces – or boards therefor – Piece moves over board having pattern
Patent
1983-06-13
1985-05-07
Pinkham, Richard C.
Amusement devices: games
Board games, pieces, or boards therefor
Piece moves over board having pattern
273287, 273289, 446308, 446309, 446336, A63F 302
Patent
active
045153710
ABSTRACT:
An instructional chess game comprises a square playing board of laminated construction having sixty-four individual playing squares each of which is formed centrally with a substantially square recess, all squares "black" and "white" in accordance with traditional contrasting squares configuration, such square recesses being formed to accomodate a variety of play pieces whose projecting basal configuration can be accomodated in the aforesaid play squares square recesses. Such basal configurations of each of the play pieces do permit each and any of the play pieces to rest in the appropriate play squares and face only such directions as are allowed in accordance with the rules of the game of chess, whereby in such attitudes when the playpieces are correctly aligned and resting in the play squares such play pieces are actuated to display and execute an aggressive action appropriate to the character of each particular play piece; the pawns may swing an axe, the kings may swing a sword, the rook-castles, the bishops and queens may propel a projectile whilst the knights may swing a lance, all such representational actions and weapons are to physically attack and strike the opponent playpieces as a prelude to the "taking" of the pieces so attacked. A video chess game is also described during which a substantially conventional chess board is visually represented and similarly represented playing pieces are shown to attack one another by striking each other or by launching projectiles, laser beams or the like at one another, the attacked and visually represented playing pieces collapsing/disintegrating before finally vanishing and being replaced by the attacking playing pieces with suitable sound effects.
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Craig Kubey The Winners Book of Video Games, p. 65, .COPYRGT.1982.
Brown Scott L.
Pinkham Richard C.
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