Patent ID: 6382626
Filing Date: 2002-05-07
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
A method of playing an advanced chess game for use by a player and an opposing player, wherein each player uses game pieces upon a shared game board, the method comprising the steps of:providing a standard chess game board having an upper surface upon which the advanced game is to be played, said upper surface having an eight-by-eight grid of adjoining squares over which the game pieces are moved; providing the game pieces comprising a set thereof to be used by a player and another set thereof to be used by the opposing player upon the game board, each set of pieces comprising a set of game pieces from a standard chess game and including eight pawn pieces; arranging each set of game pieces on the board in accordance the rules of chess; designating the traditional King pawn and Queen pawn pieces Shield pawns, each Shield pawn having a range of movement at any location on the game board including all of the same movements of traditional chess pawn pieces and an additional movement on the game board defined by moving away from a square first occupied thereby, in one of a left motion and a right motion to an unoccupied ending square one lateral position therefrom; said Shield pawns comprising the only pawns having said additional movement.