Patent ID: 7021628

Claim:
A multiple player board game apparatus, comprising: a game board, having: a central playing area of three hundred twenty-four playing positions of eighteen ranks and eighteen files in a substantially square array having four sides and four corners; said playing positions comprising alternating light colored positions and dark colored positions in a checkerboard pattern; two initial playing extensions, each of the extensions having twenty-four playing positions of three ranks and eight files disposed upon each of the sides of said central playing area, each of the extensions being immediately adjacent a corresponding one of the corners of said central playing area and spaced apart from one another along each of the sides; each of the initial playing extensions further including uniform coloring of the light colored positions therein, the light colored positions being colored differently from one another in each of the different initial playing extensions; eight sets of playing pieces, each of the sets of playing pieces corresponding to one of the initial playing extensions, respectively; wherein each of said sets of playing pieces is colored substantially identically to said light colored positions of said corresponding one of said initial playing extensions.