Patent ID: 6913261

Claim:
A method of playing a modified chess game by two players against each other, comprising the steps of: a) introducing a new piece called Leo in the shape of a lion provided in pair for each player; b) formatting rules for movement wherein each of the lens may move two squares in any direction selected from any of the diagonal directions, the vertical directions or the horizontal directions; c) formatting rules for movement wherein each of the leos may make its move in the forward direction or in the backward direction; d) formatting rules for movement wherein each of the leos may make its move by leaping over other pieces; e) formatting rules for movement wherein each of the leos may capture any of the opponent's pieces that may exist in its destination squares, in addition to the two squares diagonally adjacent to the front of it only; f) providing two sets of light and dark colored playing pieces, each set consists of one king, one queen, two Leos, two bishops, two knights, two rooks and ten pawns; g) providing a game board consisting of 100 squares in alternating light and dark colors arranged in ten horizontal rows by ten vertical columns; h) placing the game board wherein each player should have on his/her side a light colored square at the lower right hand corner of the board; i) placing the set of light colored playing pieces at the start of the game in the first row starting from left to right in the following sequence: rook, knight, bishop, Leo, king, queen, Leo, bishop, knight and rook, whilst the ten pawns are placed in the ten squares of the second row; j) placing the set of dark colored pieces at the start of the game in the tenth row at the opposing end of the game board starting from left to right in the following sequence: rook, knight, bishop, Leo, king, queen, Leo, bishop, knight and rook, whilst the ten pawns are placed in the ten squares of the ninth row; k) the movement rules for each of the queens, bishops and knights are the same rules of movement as its corresponding piece in the orthodox chess game; l) the movement rules of the king and the rook are the same as in the orthodox chess game, except that in the castling move the king moves from its starting position to either of the knights' starting positions in either direction, and the involved rook moves two squares from its starting position to be placed after the king in the square horizontally adjacent to the king's castling position i.e. to either of the bishops' starting positions; m) the movement rules for each pawn are the same rules as in the orthodox chess game except that each pawn, on its first move, can make a forward straight move of one, two or three squares.