New Game.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Sept., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 26th June, 1894-Accepted, 18th Aug., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New Game.
1 HARRY SIDNEY GRANT 30 Romberg Road Upper Tooting S. W. Commercial
Traveller do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :—
This invention consists of a new game which I call diamond goal. To play this
game I take an ordinary draught board and the opponents play from opposite
corners. The number of men or pieces used by each player are thirteen which
have on one side of them representations in miniature of playing cards the. ace
being high and the two low. Each player moves alternately one square either straight
forward or obliquely. When a man or piece is placed on a square next to an
opponent's piece the higher number must take the lower by jumping over it and
removing it. If one of the players can in this way get his opponents ace out of
the corner where it was first placed and get one of his own men on the same square
he wins the game. On their reverse sides the men or pieces can bear representations
of the usual chess men and I claim the sole right to the use of the combination of
my game of diamond goal with chess or draughts or any other game which can be
played on a draught board.
3000
A. E. JOLLEY,
Agent.
A NOW сташе.
I, HARRY SIDNEY GRANT of 30 Romberg Road, Upper Tooting, London,
Designer 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 consists of a table game played on a chequered board like chess or
draughts, and is a novel combination of draughts or chess with playing cards.
The men used are similar to draughts in appearance and serve for playing draughts
when required. On one side they can have representations of chessmen so that they
can serve for playing chess. This I am aware is not novel and I do not claim to
have invented it. The special feature of my invention is that on one side of the
pieces there is represented twelve of the playing cards of a suit of cards
commencing with the ace and ending with the king but omitting the two so as to
reduce the number of cards to twelve instead of thirteen.
It is obvious that having only twelve pieces on each side of the board or twenty-
four in all, only two of the four suits of a pack can be represented. Any two suits
can be used, but by preference I employ diamonds for one side and spades for the
other.
Each one of the draught pieces will therefore represent one of the cards of the
two suits chosen, and will bear some representation or sign whereby it can be
easily recognised. When playing the card-draught game which I call "diamond
goal" each piece has the value and force so far as possible, of the card which it
represents.

page_text: In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 shows a draught with a three of diamonds represented on its surface.
Fig. 2 shows the reverse of the piece with a castle for playing chess represented
thereon.
Fig. 3, shows a plan view of a draught board with the card-draughts in position
for playing.
The figures on some of the pieces denote cards with that number of pips. These
figures and the honour cards would be red on one suit and black on the other.
It will be seen that the board is used cornerwise.
The pieces can be moved straight forward or obliquely but not directly from
right to left or left to right.
To take an opponent's piece there must be a vacant square behind it, as in
draughts, but there is this important difference that as in cards a piece can only be
taken by one of higher value.
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A piece can be "huffed" or forfeited for omitting to take and this "huffing
may extend to the limit of the loss that would have been sustained had the piece
*been taken.
The object of the game is to invade the opponents territory, and it is won when
his pieces are all taken, or when the ace square is occupied by one of his
antagonists pieces.
When used for chess playing four counters or coins are required to complete the
number of pawns, or four pieces can be left out, as for instance the two bishops
and their pawns.
Having now particularly described & 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:
1. A special game of draught-cards played on a draught board and consisting of
twenty-four men each having a card value and a chequered board of sixty four
squares as herein described and set forth.
2. The combination of the draught-card game as in Claim 1 with chess as herein
described and set forth.