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US 4,045,030 AGranted
Chess game apparatus
OwnerCasimir S. Strozewskiinventor
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Abstract
A game board having a generally rectangular or square playing surface whereon hexagonal spaces are contiguously arranged along axes at right angles to each other and along an axis at 45.degree. to each of the other axes. Each such hexagonal space is elongated along a longitudinal axis which intersects a pair of opposite sides, said opposite sides being shorter than the other four sides of the hexagonal space. The spaces may be provided with different colors to distinguish them, as desired.
Claims8
A game comprising in combination,
- a game board having a playing surface,
- a playing configuration formed on said surface comprising contiguously arranged hexagonal spaces each side of which is aligned with the corresponding side of other spaces along axes at 90.degree. or 45.degree. to each other, and two sets of playing pieces, each set of which comprises a king, a queen, three bishops, two knights, two rooks, and nine pawns, all of the pieces in each set having indicia of only the respective set of pieces.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.