Chess game apparatus

Abstract

The invention relates to a chess-type game for two players, comprising a board and chessmen, the board being uniformly divided into playing positions and having n distinguished boundaries. The chessmen of each player comprise a king, a plurality of pawns and a plurality of major pieces. Each of the major pieces is included in even amounts, the major pieces comprising a prince, a bishop, a rook and a knight. The board is square and is uniformly divided into 81 squares with nine squares on each side. Each player is provided with two of each of the major pieces so that each player has the followiong chessmen: a king, nine pawns and eight major pieces, namely, two princes, two bishops, two knights and two rooks.

I claim: 
     
       1. A chess type game for two players comprising .Iadd.a plurality of chessmen, .Iaddend.a square board, said board being uniformly divided into eighty-one squares, each side of said board being nine squares long, and wherein the chessmen of each player consist of a king, nine pawns and eight major pieces, namely, two princes, two bishops, two knights and two rooks, each of said kings, pawns, bishops, knights and rooks having the same moves and strengths as the corresponding .[.pieces.]. .Iadd.chessmen .Iaddend.in conventional chess, .Iadd.chessmen having identical moves and strengths being of a form which indicate this identicality, and specifically, the pawns being of an undistinguishable form which indicates that every pawn has the same moves and strengths of every other pawn, .Iaddend.each of said princes having the same moves and strengths as the .[.queens.]. .Iadd.queen .Iaddend.in conventional chess, the .[.pieces.]. .Iadd.chessmen .Iaddend.of one player being disposed, at the beginning of each game, with the king of the player in the central square of the first row of one end of the board, the major .[.pieces.]. .Iadd.chessmen .Iaddend.being disposed on said first row in symmetrical arrangement about said king, and the pawns being disposed in the second row at said end of said board, the .[.pieces.]. .Iadd.chessmen .Iaddend.of the other player being disposed, in similar arrangement, at the end of the board opposing said end.