Amusement devices: games – Board games – pieces – or boards therefor – Having three-dimensional pattern
Patent
1993-10-14
1994-08-16
Stoll, William E.
Amusement devices: games
Board games, pieces, or boards therefor
Having three-dimensional pattern
273261, A63F 302
Patent
active
053380401
ABSTRACT:
A three-dimensional chess game which is played on a four by four by four cubic chessboard. The boards are arranged so that the light and dark squares alternate in the vertical direction, which makes the three-dimensional play more analogous to two-dimensional chess. The game is played with two standard sixteen piece per side chess sets. The game starts with the pieces arranged on diametrically opposite edges of the cubic game board, with the white playing pieces arranged in the first two rows of the bottom two levels and the black playing pieces arranged in the last two rows of the top two levels. The playing pieces are assigned unique movements which are three-dimensional extensions analogous to their movements in two-dimensional chess. The rook is assigned a special movement having three modes, a horizontal mode, a frontal mode, and a side mode. The rook may move in one direction in any of three orthogonal directions when it is in any of the three modes. The rook is also allowed to move sequentially in two orthogonal directions in a specified order, within the horizontal, frontal or side plane corresponding to the mode it is in. The rook is defined as being in the horizontal mode at the beginning of a game, and when the rook moves in one direction only, the rook changes mode to the mode corresponding to the horizontal, frontal or side plane perpendicular to the direction in which it moves.
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Leary James J.
Stoll William E.
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