Football board game
OwnerJermaine Lajuan Bay Shiversinventor
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Abstract
A football-style chess game and method for opposed players includes an eight-by-eight checkerboard-style game board having an End Zone at each player end of the board, two sets of game pieces, each set including conventional chess pieces, e.g. a Quarterback (QB), a Fullback (FB), a Running Back (RB), a Wide Receiver/Defensive Back (WR/DB), a Linebacker (LB), and eight Front Line (FL) pieces. A method is also disclosed wherein the chess game is played for a fixed duration of time, and points (dollar values) are awarded to the players. The player having the highest cumulative point total at the end of the game is then declared the winner. A method is also disclosed for adapting the chess game for play electronically, such as through a global network of computers.
Claims18
A game comprising:
- a game board having a rectangular grid array annotated with football field markings;
- game pieces having football related shapes;
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- an electronic banking/game clock (EBGC) device that enables timed use and scoring of the game pieces on the game board during game play, the EBGC device comprising:
- a game clock comprising:
- (i) a game time clock that displays remaining time until conclusion of a game;
- and (ii) at least one play clock that displays a countdown of a predetermined number of seconds from an end of a previous player's turn;
- a score-keeping user interface comprising two score displays for competing players;
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- an electronic information system communicatively coupled to the two score displays, the electronic information system records values for each game piece that is removed from the game board for each player, computes a change in a player score based on the values, and displays the player score on a corresponding one of the two score displays;
- a housing to which the game clock and the score-keeping user interface are attached;
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- one or more dedicated controls attached to the housing that are responsive to manual user entry to affect operation of the game clock.
A method comprising:
- providing a game board having a rectangular grid array annotated with football field markings;
- providing game pieces having football related shapes;
- timing use of the game pieces on the game board during game play using an electronic banking/game clock (EBGC) device by:
- displaying remaining time until on a display of a game time clock of the EBGC device;
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- displaying a countdown of a predetermined number of seconds from an end of a previous player's turn on at least one display of a play clock of the EBGC device;
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- recording values, in an information system of the EBGC device, for each game piece that is removed from the game board for each player;
- computing, by the information system, a change in a player score based on the values;
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- displaying the player score on a corresponding one of two score displays of the EBGC device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.