Patent ID: 7722471

Claim:
Game equipment for use with a billiard table comprising a plurality of billiard balls, each of said billiard balls having an indicia representative of a chess piece of which each indicium dictates a specific allowable mode of play for said balls and a rack of irregular hexagonal configuration for positioning a portion of said billiard balls into two rows, whereby each ball is equidistantly separated from adjacent balls; wherein said plurality of billiard balls comprise sixteen balls of two differently colored sets of eight balls, each set racked at opposite ends of said billiard table, wherein each of said billiard balls functioning as a cue ball; wherein the two differently colored sets of eight balls in each said set respectively bear representations of chess pieces indicative of a king, queen, bishop, knight, rook and pawn; wherein said billiard balls of said different colored set are racked at opposite ends of a billiard table forming first and second rows, said first row comprising three pawns; said second row comprising a rook, a knight, a king, a queen, and a bishop and wherein said indicia are pictorial symbols which dictate a proper usage or limitation thereof in play of said billiard balls.