Patent ID: 7717428
Filing Date: 2010-05-18
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A method of playing a game of checkers for three players, said method comprising: (a) providing a game board, said game board comprising a battle zone and a first base, a second base, and a third base, each said base being for a respective one of said players; said battle zone being a closed polygon having a first battle zone side, a second battle zone side, and a third battle zone side, said first battle zone side being angled at sixty degrees with respect to said second battle zone side, said second battle zone side being angled at sixty degrees with respect to said third battle zone side, and said third battle zone side being angled at sixty degrees with respect to said first battle zone side; each said base being substantially rectangular and being divided into first, second, third, and fourth sequential rows and into eight columns of alternating light and dark colored playing squares with said first row of said first base abutting said first battle zone side, with said first row of said second base abutting said second battle zone side, and with said first row of said third base abutting said third battle zone side; said battle zone consisting of thirty-six discs arranged in a triangular pattern, said triangular pattern having a first equilateral triangle having a first perimeter formed by twenty-one of said thirty-six discs, a second equilateral triangle having a second perimeter interior of said first perimeter and formed by twelve of said thirty-six discs, and a third equilateral triangle having a third perimeter interior of said second perimeter and formed by three of said thirty-six discs; said first, said second, and said third equilateral triangles having like orientation with said first, said second, and said third battle zone sides; (b) providing a first, a second, and a third set consisting of twelve checker pieces each, one said set respectively being for each said player, each said set being of like color and each said set being distinguished from each other said set by color; (c) initially placing each player's set of checker pieces onto said game board so that one of said checker pieces of each respective said set initially occupy each said dark colored playing square of said second, third, and fourth rows of said player's base; (d) selecting one of said players to start said game, then each said player, in turn, making a move of one of said player's checker pieces during each said turn, each said move being according to game rules of: else if said diagonally-adjacent disc is occupied by another player's checker piece and further if, along a same diagonal as said occupied diagonally-adjacent disc, a next disc is unoccupied, said one moved checker piece may be moved to said unoccupied next disc along said diagonal and said another player's checker piece shall be removed from said game board; (e) each said player moving, in turn, until only checker pieces of one winning player remain unremoved from said game board.