Football board game

A method of playing a game of chess by opposed players;

• the game consisting of
• (a) an eight-by-eight checkerboard-style game board having first and second ends, a pair of opposed sides, and a playing surface comprising a plurality of alternating dark and light field squares to form a checkerboard pattern;
• the squares forming a plurality of rows extending between the sides, and a plurality of columns extending between the ends;
• wherein the game board further comprises a row made up of a single space creating a first End Zone and a second End Zone space that is immediately adjacent the first and second end of the game board thereby creating a total of sixty-four field squares and two End Zone rectangles;
• and
• (b) two sets of distinguishable game pieces, including a set of light colored pieces for one of the opposed players, and a set of dark colored pieces for the other of the opposed players;
• each the set of game pieces consisting of one Quarterback (QB), one Fullback (FB), two Wide Receivers/Defensive Backs (WR/DB), two Running Backs (RB), two Linebackers (LB), and eight Front Line (FL) pieces;
• the method comprising the steps of:
• (i) placing each player's set of playing pieces on the game board so that the Quarterback (QB), the Fullback (FB), the Running Backs (RB), the Linebackers (LB), and the Wide Receivers/Defensive Backs (WR/DB) of the set of light-colored game pieces having initial locations in respective squares in the first row of squares immediately adjacent the first End Zone of the first end of the gameboard;
• the Quarterback (QB), the Fullback (FB), the Running Backs (RB), the Linebackers (LB), and the Wide Receivers/Defensive Backs (WR/DB) of the set of dark-colored game pieces having initial locations in respective squares in the first row of squares immediately adjacent the first End Zone of the first end of the gameboard in mirrored relation to the initial locations of the light-colored game pieces;
• and the light-colored Front Line (FL) pieces having initial locations in the respective squares in the second row adjacent the first end;
• the dark-colored Front Line (FL) pieces having initial locations in the respective squares in the second row adjacent the second end;
• (ii) the players taking turns consisting of one or more alternating moves of the pieces;
• the alternating moves continuing until one player places the opposing player's Quarterback (QB) in sacked or checkmate, or the expiration of a predetermined period of time;
• (iii) the moves of the Quarterback (QB), the Fullback (FB), the Running Back (RB), the Wide Receiver/Defensive Back (WR/DB), the Linebacker (LB) and the Front Line (FL) being conducted according to the rules of conventional chess except that a player may move the Quarterback (QB) into the End Zone.

An electronic chess game, the game including (a) an eight-by-eight checkerboard-style game board having first and second ends, a pair of opposed sides, and a playing surface comprising a plurality of alternating dark and light field squares to form a checkerboard pattern;

• the squares forming a plurality of rows extending between the sides, and a plurality of columns extending between the ends;
• wherein the game board further comprises a row made up of a single space creating a first End Zone and a second End Zone space that is immediately adjacent the first and second end of the game board thereby creating a total of sixty-four field squares and two End Zone rectangles;
• (b) two sets of distinguishable game pieces, including a set of light colored pieces for one of the opposed players, and a set of dark colored pieces for the other of the opposed players;
• each the set of game pieces consisting of one Quarterback (QB), one Fullback (FB), two Wide Receivers/Defensive Backs (WR/DB), two Running Backs (RB), two Linebackers (LB), and eight Front Line (FL) pieces;
• comprising:
• (a) a display device for displaying visual images of the playing pieces and the game board to a human observer;
• (b) an input device for inputting input data;
• means for processing the data to allow a player to move the playing pieces about the game board on the display;
• (c) a memory device for storing data;
• the memory device having an application program stored therein;
• the memory device being operative to transfer the application program out of the system memory and display a graphical user interface (GUI) on the display device;
• and (d) a bus for transporting input and output signals between the input device, the display, and the memory device.