Patent ID: 8678390

Claim:
A chess game implement which comprises: a diamond-shaped game board having pair of opposite lateral tips and a pair of opposite longitudinal tips, said board consisting of: an assemblage of clustered, hexagonal, play locations including: a short, median latitudinal first sequence of contiguous, side-by-side locations, beginning at a first one of said opposite lateral tips and ending at a second one of said opposite lateral tips; a long, median, longitudinal second sequence of similarly colored and spaced-apart, angle-facing locations, beginning at a first one of said opposite longitudinal tips and ending at a second one of said opposite longitudinal tips; wherein each of said sequence consists of seven locations; two sets of differently colored chessmen, each of said sets consisting of: one chessman of a first kind; one chessman of a second kind; one chessman of a third kind; one chessman of a fourth kind; one chessman of a fifth kind; and five chessmen of a sixth kind; and, wherein a first one of said sets is positioned on a first triangular cluster of ten contiguous locations at said first one of said opposite longitudinal tips; and, wherein a second one of said sets is positioned on a second triangular cluster of ten contiguous locations at said second one of said opposite longitudinal tips: and, a redeemable one of said chessman of said sixth kind being redeemable for a captured one of said set of chessman when said redeemable one has moved onto a redeeming location in an opposing one of said triangular clusters.