Patent ID: 7410418

Claim:
A method for enabling players to play a chess-like game, the method comprising: providing a player with information about said game, where said information includes positions and types of game pieces on a) squares that are occupied by game pieces belonging to said player and squares that are diagonally adjacent thereto, b) squares to which one or more of said game pieces belonging to said player can move according to their respective movement patterns and which are not occupied by an enemy game piece and squares that are diagonally adjacent thereto, and c) squares occupied by enemy game pieces that can be captured or put in check by one or more of said game pieces belonging to said player according to their respective movement patterns, and where said information excludes positions and types of game pieces on any other squares; and upon performing a move of a particular game piece by said player to a new position, updating said information to account for said new position of said particular game piece yet temporarily excluding from said updated information, for a duration that depends on a rate of play of said player, positions and types of game pieces on certain squares.