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US 2013/0157740 A1Published application
System and method for an extended chess game
OwnerRick Steven Louieinventor
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Abstract
A chess-type game played on a game board of ten columns and eight rows, or ten columns and ten rows. The game is played with traditional chess game pieces plus additional wizard game pieces. During a turn the wizard game pieces can be moved one space away in any direction, or alternately can be exchanged with any other game piece on the board belonging to the same set.
Claims13
An extended chess game, comprising:
- a game board comprising spaces arranged in rows and columns;
- two sets of game pieces, each set of game pieces comprising:
- ten pawns;
- two rooks;
- two knights;
- two wizards,
- wherein said two wizards have a set of permissible movement patterns selected from the group of movement patterns comprising a standard movement and an exchange movement,
- wherein said standard movement comprises moving either wizard of said two wizards one space in any direction,
- wherein said exchange movement is exchanging either wizard of:
- aid two wizards with any other game piece belonging to the same set of game pieces;
- two bishops;
- one queen;
- and
- one king.
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A method for playing an extended chess game, comprising the steps of:
- providing a game board comprising spaces arranged in rows and columns;
- providing two sets of game pieces, each set of game pieces comprising:
- ten pawns;
- two rooks;
- two knights;
- two wizards, wherein each of said wizards is permitted during a turn to be exchanged with any other game piece belonging to the same set of game pieces or alternately to move in any direction to a space one space away;
- two bishops;
- one queen;
- and
- one king;
- placing a first set of said two sets of game pieces on an opposite side of said game board from a second set of said two sets of game pieces, with each piece being located in one space of said game board;
- exchanging a game board position of one wizard from said first set of two sets of game pieces with one other game piece of said first set of two sets of game pieces.
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