Method of weighting chess pieces
AssigneeThe House of Staunton, Inc.
InventorFrank A. Camaratta, Jr.
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Abstract
A method of weighting a chess piece, comprising the steps of creating a first cavity in a base of the chess piece, and filling the first cavity with a powdered metal. The method also includes the step of creating a second cavity in the base, and filling the second cavity with an electronic sensor so that the piece may communicate electronically with a sensory chess board.
Claims10
A method of weighting a chess piece, comprising the steps of:
- creating a first cavity in a base of said chess piece;
- filling said first cavity with loose particles of metal thereby forming a weighted chess piece;
- creating a second cavity in the base of said chess piece, in a different location than said first cavity;
- and,
- filling said second cavity with a sensor operatively arranged to communicate with a chess board.
A method of weighting a set of chess pieces, said set comprising a subset of white pieces and a subset of black pieces, where the white pieces are made of a first species of wood, and the black pieces are made of a second species of wood, where the two species of wood have different densities, the method comprising:
- weighting each piece of said subset of white pieces with loose particles of metal of a first average particle size;
- and,
- weighting each piece of said subset of black pieces with said loose particles of metal but of a second average particle size.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.