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US 11,465,035 B2Granted
Nesting chess set
AssigneeEtho LLC
InventorDavid J. Fustino
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Abstract
A nesting chess set with two teams of chess pieces. Each team includes one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, and eight pawns. The pieces of each team are configured such that they can be organized into two nests, each nest comprising eight pieces, wherein the only difference between the two nests is that one has the king and one has the queen, while otherwise each nest has a rook, a bishop, a knight, and four pawns. The queen is the outside piece of one nest. The king is the outside piece of the other nest. The rest of the pieces are sized and shaped to nest within the king or queen. Each nest is held together by a magnetic base.
Claims17
A nesting chess set, comprising:
- two teams of chess pieces, wherein each team comprises one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, and eight pawns;
- wherein the pieces of each team are configured such that they can be organized into two nests, each nest comprising eight pieces, wherein the only difference between the two nests is that one has the king and one has the queen, while otherwise each nest has a rook, a bishop, a knight, and four pawns;
- wherein the queen is the outside piece of one nest, the king is the outside piece of the other nest, and the rest of the pieces are sized and shaped to nest within the king or queen;
- and
- wherein each nest is held together by a magnetic base and the magnetic bases of the two nests are configured such that they attract to each other such that the two nests are configured to be held together end-to-end in a generally tubular team shape.
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A nesting chess set, comprising:
- two teams of chess pieces, wherein each team comprises one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, and eight pawns;
- wherein the pieces of each team are configured such that they can be organized into two nests, each nest comprising eight pieces, wherein the only difference between the two nests is that one has the king and one has the queen, while otherwise each nest has a rook, a bishop, a knight, and four pawns;
- wherein the queen is the outside piece of one nest, the king is the outside piece of the other nest, and the rest of the pieces are sized and shaped to nest within the king or queen;
- wherein each nest is held together by a magnetic base;
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- wherein a nest is configured such that the bottoms of the bases of the king or queen, the bishop, the knight, and the rook, are all generally coplanar and the nest is further configured such that the bottom of the base of one pawn sits below the plane in which the bottoms of the bases of the king or queen, the bishop, the knight, and the rook sit.
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A nesting chess set, comprising:
- two teams of chess pieces, wherein each team comprises one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, and eight pawns;
- wherein the pieces of each team are configured such that they can be organized into two nests, each nest comprising eight pieces, wherein the only difference between the two nests is that one has the king and one has the queen, while otherwise each nest has a rook, a bishop, a knight, and four pawns;
- wherein the queen is the outside piece of one nest, the king is the outside piece of the other nest, the rest of the pieces are sized and shaped to nest within the king or queen, the four pawns are stacked one on top of another, and the stack of pawns sits in part inside of the rook, with the bottom of the base of the innermost pawn located lower than the bottom of the base of the rook;
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- wherein each nest is held together by a magnetic base.
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A nesting chess set, comprising:
- two teams of chess pieces, wherein each team comprises one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, and eight pawns;
- wherein the pieces of each team are configured such that they can be organized into two nests, each nest comprising eight pieces, wherein the only difference between the two nests is that one has the king and one has the queen, while otherwise each nest has a rook, a bishop, a knight, and four pawns;
- wherein the queen is the outside piece of one nest, the king is the outside piece of the other nest, and the rest of the pieces are sized and shaped to nest within the king or queen;
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- wherein each nest is held together by a magnetic base that is generally circular and comprises a generally annular magnet.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.