A Game of Skill and Apparatus to be used in Playing same.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Feb., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 19th Nov., 1891-accepted, 24th Dec., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Game of Skill and Apparatus to be used in Playing same.
I, THOMAS PENNEY CHITTENDEN 133 Westbourne Terrace Hyde Park
London W. in the County of Middlesex Gentleman do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a game of skill intended for one or more players the
object being to afford amusement & recreation, the invention also refates to the
apparatus to be used in playing the game forming a combination of game and
apparatus or board-upon which to play the game. The game is played on a
specially constructed apparatus-or board-somewhat resembling a draughtboard
without limit to number of playing spaces, though the ordinary 64 playing spaces
as used in the game of chess is preferred, for this game in question, the spaces are
of two different colours as on a chess board. The board or apparatus is so
constructed as to indicate upon the playing space the move taken thereon, herein-
after described.
The game is played by moving a piece or pointing and touching with an indicator
diagonally from one coloured space to another coloured space resembling the
knight's move in the game of chess and so continuing the move so long as there
is a space remaining not moved on or indicated which it is possible to touch by
taking a move in the described direction, a move must not be taken twice on the
same playing space. The player who can take the most moves wins the game.
The board or apparatus is so constructed that each single playing space can be
revolved on axle pivot or hinge and turn over showing another colour on its
opposite side, thus indicating the space has been moved on or touched which
revolving is produced by proper manipulation by pressure or otherwise.
It is not necessary that the whole of the single playing space should revolve-
though it may do so-but a smaller space or indicator fixed in an indentation or
before described
hole or otherwise on or in the playing space may turn as
displaying another colour indicating that the playing space has been moved on er
touched and thereby revolved showing a different colour on its opposite side.
1 do not limit myself to the shape number or relative sizes of the playing spaces,
or indicators affixed to same, which may be square, round, triangular, cube, or
spherical or in fact any shape or form best suited to practical application and
convenience. Each playing space or the indicators attached thereto may revolve
horizontally perpendicularly or in any convenient direction which by showing a
different colour indicates the move taken, or a particoloured disc revolving
horizontally or otherwise beneath the playing space may display another colour
when revolved through a perforation in playing space. Or a perforated
horizontally revolving disc may be on top of playing space which when revolved
shows another colour through the perforations, which in this case would be coloured
on playing space which would be particoloured.
Or a coloured spot on playing space may be covered by a disc which when
removed discloses the spot aforesaid and so indicates the move, the object being
to indicate the move taken.
The board may also be used for any other game capable of being played on same.

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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Game of Skill and Apparatus to be used in Playing same.
I, THOMAS PENNEY CHITTENDEN, 133 Westbourne Terrace, Hyde Park,
London W. in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to a game of skill intended for one or more players who
may play according to several modifications of rules employing a specially con-
structed apparatus or board somewhat resembling a draught board without limit to
number of playing spaces, though the ordinary 64 playing spaces as used in the
game of chess is preferred for the game in question. The playing spaces are of
two different colours as on. a chess board but each square is fitted with some form
of indicator by which each playing space used for one of the moves may be
distinguished from the remaining spaces not so used; the indicator being such, if
required, as to indicate by which player each indicated playing space was so used.
The apparatus or board is shown in the accompanying drawings in which
Figure 1 is a plan of a portion of a board fitted with indicators;
Figure 2 is a section of Figure 1 taken upon the line A B.
Figures 3, 4 and 5 show modified forms of indicators.
In Figure 1 the apparatus or board is shown resembling an ordinary chess
board but each playing space is centrally bored through and fitted with a disc A
capable of rotating upon a pin or wire B passing therethrough horizontally. One
side of the disc is coloured correspondingly with the playing space in which it is
fitted and the opposite side is distinctively coloured. Thus the disc indicators
being all set to show the colour of the playing space in which each is fitted any
one of them may be reversed to show the distinctive colour at its other side and
thus indicate that the playing square in question has been used for a move in a
game hereinafter described.
It is obvious that instead of the pivoted indicators flat counters placed upon
the squares of the board might be employed to obtain the same result but they
would be liable to derangement during the progress of the game whereas the
pivoted indicators forming part of the board are not thus liable to aderangement.
Instead of the disc indicators A rotating vertically upon horizontal axes as
shown in Figure 1 indicators C coloured correspondingly with the playing squares
may be fitted in a recessed space made in each playing space so as to turn horizontally
upon a vertical axis to expose to view portions of the recessed space coloured
correspondingly with the playing space or to cover the same and expose to view
portions of the recessed space coloured distinctively therefrom.
With the apparatus or board constructed as hereinbefore described the game
may be played as follows:-
With a pointer suitable for turning the indicators the player starts from any
playing space he chooses to select and describes the move well known as the
inove of the knight in the game of chess that is to say a movement at right
angles across one of the four border lines of a playing space continued diagonally
to either of the two next adjoining spaces. By reversing the indicator of the
playing space so arrived at, the player marks that space as one not to be stopped
upon again and moves again (the knight's move) to another point indicating the
space as before and continuing in the same way as long as he can perform the
required move. The object of the player is if possible, to touch every playing
space of the board by the move hereinbefore described thereby showing every
indicator inverted, a record being taken of any number of playing spaces not
indicated when the play of a player is stopped for comparison with the subsequent
performance of another player.
The game may however be played by two players moving alternately as players

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do in the game of chess. For this purpose it is necessary to provide a "piece
which may resemble the knight of the game of chess or any other figure made
with a peak, beak or point suitable for turning the indicator as well as serving to
mark the last move of each player alternately. In such a case the loser of the
game is the one who first becomes stopped from taking another of the prescribed
moves it being agreed that a player shall not move upon any square to which his
adversary's piece could be moved if it were then his turn to play. In Figure 11
have shown a first move from E to the indicators of these playing spaces being
inverted.
Instead of the indicator represented in Figure 1 a triangular indicator D may
be employed to rotate upon a pin or wire B in the same way as the disc indicator Á.
and in that case three indicating surfaces being obtained two of them may bear
distinctive colours to represent each of two players and the third may be coloured
correspondingly with the playing space in which the indicator is fitted. The
double indicator thus produced enables modifications to be introduced into the
game. Thus each player may be barred from stopping on a playing space which
as shown by the indicator, he had stopped upon before; but he may be free to
use a space which, as shown by its indicator, his adversary had stopped upon
before; or if the game is to be won by the player who shows upon the board the
greatest number of indicators turned to his colour when the game is stopped by
either player being unable to move, then he may claim to change the indicator
to indicate his own colour so as to give his adversary the trouble or disadvantage
of having by a subsequent move to reverse that indicator again.
The indicator C represented by Figures 3 and 4 may be made to serve the same
purpose as the indicator D. As shown in Figures 3 and 4 the indicator C is a
white indicator fitted in a recess upon a white playing space. In Figure 3 the
space is shown as normally indicated before beginning to play and in Figure 4
it is shown turned into position to cover the white portions in the recess and
expose the distinctively coloured portions. To make it serve the purpose of the
double indicator D it is only necessary to colour two adjoining quarters of the
recessed space dissimilarly instead of colouring two opposite quarters similarly,
and to shape the indicator to cover adjoining quarters instead of two opposite
quarters. Then by turning the indicator, both or only one of the dissimilar
indicating colours may be covered as required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
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1. A board or apparatus divided into playing spaces resembling the playing
spaces of a chess board but being provided with a suitable indicating device to
show those squares which have been used for moves substantially as described.
2. A board or apparatus divided into playing spaces resembling the playing
spaces of a chess board but being provided with a suitable double indicating
device to show those squares respectively which have been used for moves by each
of two players and remain not reclaimed by the other of the same two players
substantially as described.
3. A. game consisting in following a prescribed move upon a board resembling
a chess board and indicating each move so taken in accordance with the rules and
modifications of the rules all substantially as described.
Dated this 10th day of November 1891
AYRTON & THOMAS,
Agents for the Applicant.