Patent ID: 6102399
Filing Date: 2000-08-15
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
In a method of playing a modified game of chess for three or four players, utilizing distinguishable sets of conventional chess pieces consisting of eight pawns, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, one king and one queen; a primary playing board having a square checkerboard array of squares extending in the ""X"" and ""Y"" directions,the improvement comprising in combination therewith, a primary playing board having an array of ten rows, and four extended playing areas, each said extended playing area consisting of three rows of eight alternately colored squares, comparable to said squares of said primary playing board, and appended to a different side of said primary playing board, where each extended playing area is provided with one of said sets arranged on the outer most two rows thereof,and sequentially moving the respective said sets according to the conventional playing moves for said chess pieces.