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- JVl 218607 - CLASS 77 d. GROUP

ARMAND FORMSTECHER in BERLIN.

Game board with fields arranged like a chessboard.

Patented in the German Empire on September 10, 1908.

The subject of the invention is a game board with fields arranged like a chessboard, and the novelty consists in the fact that symmetrical side parts are attached to a flat central part connect, which gradually rise or fall, which enables a new way of playing will.

The new game board is shown in the drawing in several embodiments.

ίο According to Fig. ι and 2 it has the shape of a rectangle and has i6 rows of eight fields. The four rows of fields a at one end of the board and the four rows of fields a at the other end of the board rise step-wise at c from the square, eight-row middle part b of the board and are thus physically separated from it in such a way that the players make a mistake over the transition of the stones from the middle part to one of the side parts and vice versa cannot take place. Instead of the several steps, a single surface raised above the middle part b could also be used.

Another embodiment of the new game board is shown in FIG. 3. Here the game board is designed round; the fields are arranged as circular segments radially around the center of the board. Again, the four outer rows of fields a ² at c ² rise in steps from the inner flat part b ^{2 of} the board to the outside, being divided into two parts by transverse lines d ^2. This board has the shape of an amphitheater.

A modification of this round board shape results in the game board according to FIG. 4. Here the flat middle part b ^{3 is} raised on a base, and the outer rows of fields are arranged on three steps a ^{3 leading up to the middle part.} Here, too, the stages are again divided into two parts by dividing lines d ^3.

In place of the dividing lines d ² , d ³ , physical obstacles (grids, trenches, etc.) can also appear.

The game board described here allows in all its embodiments the known manner of playing, in which the stones of the two parties, which are expediently placed on the outer rows of fields (levels) a, a ² , a ³ , are converted into the position of the enemy stones need to after passing the midsection. Here, however, different rules of the game can apply to the middle part than to the outer parts, and the step-shaped design of the board parts certainly reminds the players of these differences in the rules of the game. So z. B. the hitting of foreign parts is allowed in the middle part, but prohibited on the outer parts or only allowed when advancing in one direction, etc.

While the embodiments shown in the drawing and described above are only intended for two opponents the new board can easily be set up for more than two players become that ζ. B. in the form of FIG

and 2 are also attached to the free sides of the square central part b side parts α in the shape of a staircase. In the case of the forms according to FIGS. 3 and 4, a division into three or four can be carried out even more easily by merely attaching corresponding dividing lines d ² or d ³ .

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Patent claim: Game board with fields arranged like a chessboard, characterized in that that connect to a flat middle part symmetrical side parts that increase or decrease in steps. 1 sheet of drawings.