A New Game and Means for Playing the same.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Dec., 1890-Accepted, 21st Feb:, 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATIONR
A New Game and Means for Playing the same.
I, ALFRED COLLIER, of 86, Victoria Park Road, South Hackney, Manu-
facturer of Games, 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:-
The game according to this invention is somewhat between draughts and chess,
which it is proposed to call "Escort."
To enable this game to be properly understood, I have annexed a diagram of the
board used. This board consists of a usual foundation A, having black squares C
on the face and two lines of squares B' of different colour, say red, crossing each
other in the middle of the board forming an X with two extra squares on second
line of each end of board.
Each player has twenty four men similar to draughts white and black and three
differently formed pieces called queens.
Each player to place his queens on the white squ Bon the outer row, and
squares
his twenty four men on the first three outer rows including the red spots B', of the
Black moves first.
second and third lines top and bottom.
The object of the game is to get the queens on the opponents queens squares.
The movement of the queens is only to take place diagonally on the red
squares B. No queen however can be moved until a king has been obtained by getting
a man on one of the opponents six outer spaces when the opponent must place on a
spare man on top thus crowning it and making it a king. The player who first
gets all his queens home, that is, on the opponents queens spaces, to be the winner
of the game, independently of the number of men or kings his opponent may have
on the board.
Each player advances his men to meet his opponents, the men may be moved
to the right or to the left or forward, after they have been started from the margin
but they cannot move back.
"A man in advancing can take one or any number of opponents men or kings
providing there is only one space between each and such moves can be made
either to the right, left or forward.
Any piece that is taken by opponent to be moved off the board.
Kings may be moved either forward or backward, to the right or left but to
take a queen, he must be on a red square immediately before or behind the queen,
and the other red square either before or behind must be vacant.
Queens have the privilege of moving the opponents men that may be in the way
to any space on the board at the option of the mover, but they may not be moved
out of action altogether.
A queen cannot take a queen, or a man a queen. A queen can take a king
if such is on a red square in front but she cannot move backward to do so.
If a player gets his queens across into his opponents side before the queens on
that side have been started he may force them out by placing one of his kings
on the red square in front of a queen, when such queen must take the king or be
"huffed (moved off the board).
do
1:
Any piece may be “huffed
more
for not taking opponent's when in his power to
so, and he can also be huffed for only taking one when he might have taken