Patent ID: 6460853
Filing Date: 2002-10-08
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
A method of playing a chess-like board game including traditional chess pieces comprising kings, queens, bishops, knights, rooks and pawns, in which a player's capturing chess piece can capture an opponent's piece, which then becomes a captured piece, as in traditional chess, and in which the traditional chess pieces are constrained in their base moves to move as in the traditional chess game, the method comprising:providing privilege-defining game pieces adapted to be coupled to and removed from one or more of the traditional chess pieces; upon capture of an opponent's chess piece with the player's capturing chess piece, allowing the capturing chess piece, in addition to its existing moving capabilities, to assume some, all or none of the moving capabilities of the captured piece, but for only one subsequent move of the capturing chess piece; indicating the assumed moving capabilities by coupling a privilege-defining game piece that corresponds to the moving capabilities assumed from the just captured chess piece to the capturing chess piece; and after the capturing chess piece with the coupled privilege-defining game piece has made the assumed subsequent move, uncoupling the coupled privilege-defining game piece from the capturing piece and removing it from play, and by this action withdrawing the assumed moving capabilities.