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US 6,279,907 B1Granted
Spacial game board with spacial chess and spacial checkers
OwnerMarvin Douglas Hullingerinventor
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Abstract
The Spacial Game Board is a contiguous, multi-level (variable quantity and variably locatable in some cases) game board of squares with the quantity of simultaneous players determined by the quantity of squares being played on (2 players˜64 squares, 4 players˜133, or 144 squares, multiple player pairs additional to 2 add 72 squares for each pair) used for playing Spacial Chess and Spacial Checkers (Two Kingdom, Four Kingdom, etc., where Kingdom quantity matches the number of simultaneous players) that has additional rules to the traditional rules of chess and checkers when four or more simultaneous players are conducting a match whether on hardware (real life playing surface) or via computer generated Spacial Game Board with Spacial Chess and Spacial Checkers software packages.
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A four-player board game for playing chess or checkers comprising:
- a plurality of playing pieces;
- a plurality of elongated lumber pieces each having a length, a height and a width, said width and height of each lumber piece defining surfaces along the sides of the lumber pieces, said lumber pieces all having the same length and width;
- said lumber pieces having different heights, wherein a first set of lumber pieces having a first height, a second set of lumber pieces having a second height which is greater than said first height, a third set of lumber pieces having a third height which is greater than said second height, and a fourth set of lumber pieces having a fourth height which is greater than said third height, said length of said lumber pieces is greater than said width and said heights;
- said surface along the width of each lumber piece having demarcations defining a row of equally sized squares along the entire surface, said squares sized to receive said playing pieces;
- said lumber pieces assembled together to form a game board having a playing surface with rows and columns of squares wherein the side surfaces of the lumber pieces, defining the different heights, being adjacent to one another, and the side surfaces of the lumber pieces, defining the widths, being placed face up to create the playing surface;
- said playing surface having rows of different levels, wherein said first set of lumber pieces placed adjacent each other define innermost rows having a lowest level, said second set of lumber pieces placed on two opposite sides adjacent and outside of the first set of lumber pieces define second rows having a higher level than said innermost rows, said third set of lumber pieces placed on two opposite sides adjacent and outside of the second set of lumber pieces define third rows having a higher level than said second rows, and said fourth set of lumber pieces placed on two opposite sides adjacent and outside of the third set of lumber pieces define outermost rows having a highest level.
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A four-player board game for playing chess or checkers comprising:
- a plurality of playing pieces;
- a solid one-piece game board formed from a plurality of lumber pieces attached together, said solid one-piece game board having a pyramidal shape with a four-sided square base, said game board having playing surfaces formed from said lumber pieces attached together to form a plurality of four-sided square shaped rings, each square shaped ring having a different side length, and each square shaped ring arranged concentrically to form a plurality of ringed steps of different vertical levels to create said pyramidal shape;
- said game board having two playing surfaces on opposite sides of the game board comprising:
- a first playing surface which steps upward from the outermost concentric ringed step, which is the lowest step, to the inner-most concentric ringed step which is the highest step at the center of the first playing surface;
- and a second playing surface which steps downward from the outermost concentric ringed step, which is the highest step, to the innermost concentric ringed step which is the lowest step at the center of the second playing surface, wherein a particular playing surface is chosen for play by flipping over the pyramidal shape game board so that either the first playing surface or the second playing surface is positioned face-up;
- said surface along each step is demarcated into squares, said squares are sized to receive said playing pieces.
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A four-player board game for playing chess or checkers comprising:
- a plurality of playing pieces;
- a plurality of elongated lumber pieces each having a length, and square cross-sectional area;
- said lumber pieces assembled together to form a game board having a playing surface, wherein each lumber piece stands upright on its cross-sectional area, the top square cross-sectional area on each lumber piece defines a playing square on the playing surface, and sized to receive a playing piece, and the length of each lumber piece determines the height of the playing square;
- said lumber pieces having different heights, wherein a first set of lumber pieces having a first height, a second set of lumber pieces having a second height which is greater than said first height, a third set of lumber pieces having a third height which is greater than said second height, and a fourth set of lumber pieces having a fourth height which is greater than said third height, and a fifth set of lumber pieces having a fifth height which is greater than said fourth height;
- said playing surface consisting of 136 playing squares of different heights, and said playing squares arranged in rows and columns consisting of eight rows of various height variation and seventeen columns of various height variation and a base for supporting said game board.
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