EP1762283A4

EP1762283A4 - Military chess and playing method for said game

Info

Publication number: EP1762283A4
Application number: EP05747273A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Konstantin Alexandrov Krivenko
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Otkritoye Akcionernoe Obshchestvo 'zvezda'
Priority date: 2004-06-18
Filing date: 2005-05-13
Publication date: 2008-01-02
Also published as: EP1762283A1; US20080169604A1; RU2004118443A; CN101001677A; RU2280486C2; WO2006001732A1

Abstract

The group of inventions relates to table games using a two-level play field, wherein the lower level is used is embodied in the form of a chess board. The top level of the playing field is formed by individual supports placed under each dib embodied in the form of a military aircraft model, wherein each support is embodied in such a way that the base thereof is arrangeable on the periphery of the case of the lower level of the playing field. The plying method is characterised in that when the top level dibs strike the lower level dibs they are removed from the supports thereof and placed instead of the lower level dibs. The inventive game is convenient in use, low-sized in storing and is easily handled.

Description

The game of military chess and the method of this game

FIELD OF TECHNOLOGY

The group of inventions relates to the field of board chess games, namely, to a device for playing spatial two-level military chess and to a method of this game.

Classic chess was created as a reflection of a real battle on a flat chessboard.

The armaments and types of troops corresponding to that time — foot soldiers (infantrymen), cavalry, elephants, etc., were transformed on a chessboard into pawns, horses, elephants, rooks, etc. In those days, the participants of the land battle moved only on the ground, they could not fly, so it is natural that the classic game chess board is two-dimensional.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION There are known methods of playing spatial chess in which chess pieces are moved in a playing field consisting of several game layers arranged parallel to one another. Kings are moved in all directions to one cell, both inside one layer, and with a transition to another (lower or upper) layer, the queen in all directions of the king’s movement, but to any number of cells, a horse, in a L-shaped move, inside one layer or with the transition to one or two adjacent game layers. The remaining spatial chess pieces are moved in the same way. The disadvantage of this method is the decrease in amusement due to the inability to analyze the general game situation, because game layers overlap and it is necessary to put forward game layers to conduct a situation analysis.

Patent RU 2123371 describes a method of playing chess and a device for its implementation. The aforementioned known method of playing military chess consists in placing on the playing field with a chess surface figures reflecting the participants of a modern battle, and in moving the figures in accordance with the rules of the game, while figures reflecting ground or naval forces are moved only in their playing layer without transition to a neighboring one, figures reflecting military aircraft or any other aircraft are moved in their game layer and transferred to layers occupied by ground or naval forces, and returned back from battle m or without a fight, i.e. destroy the enemy’s piece or transfer it to pieces reflecting military aviation, don’t move inside the game layer occupied by ground or naval forces and they can be destroyed in it by any ground or naval piece according to the rules of classical chess, and each player moves two of his pieces in turn in one move , reflecting the various types of troops, in any order.

The specified method is taken as the closest analogue of the proposed.

The aforementioned known device for playing military chess comprises a playing field with a chess surface and figures of two players differing in color. The playing field is rotatable, has a multi-faceted checkerboard surface and contains two game layers, each of which consists of parallel game faces displaced relative to each other in the same direction along the axis perpendicular to the faces, the width of one cell. The projection of parallel game faces onto a plane parallel to them is a plane consisting of 64 light and dark cells, the colors of which are different in different game layers, the figures of both players being able to be fixed on the cells of the playing field and include 32 figures for each player reflecting various types of troops and differing in color. The known method and device allows the analysis of the game situation simultaneously on several game layers, however, the game turned out to be difficult to perceive, bulky and difficult due to the voluminous multifaceted element of the playing field, and the need to supply each figure and field with magnets to hold them on mutually perpendicular planes.

US Pat. No. 1,418,409 describes a game comprising a playing field in the form of a chessboard with chips denoting land, naval and airborne combat equipment mounted on supports. Being on the playing field, the chip stand occupies the entire area of the playing field cage, while reducing the number of game situations.

Closest to the proposed design is a war game described in US Pat. No. 1,877,154. It contains chess playing fields of two parallel levels. Regular chess pieces are placed on the lower playing field, and pieces in the form of various airplanes are on the upper playing field. The upper playing field is mounted on the lower one using four support legs located on opposite edges of the field. This game provides the creation of more game situations than the game according to the patent US 1418409, however, it is also cumbersome, and chess pieces destroy the impression of a war game. In addition, the lower level figures are difficult to move.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The proposed game meets the requirement of the integrity of its constituent components, corresponding to military themes and style. In addition, it is compact because the playing field is a folding card, and the stands forming the upper playing level are made collapsible, therefore, to create this level, it is not necessary to use bulky, including packaging structures. At the same time, the game provides a large number of game situations that contribute to increasing its entertainment.

The above advantages that make up the technical result of the invention are achieved by the following set of features.

The game of military chess contains a playing field in the form of a chessboard forming the lower game level, and game chips, some of which are made in the form of aircraft military equipment installed on the tool forming the upper game level, while the tool forming the upper game level, made in the form of removable stands for each game chip, made in the form of a model of aviation military equipment. The specified stand is made with the possibility of placing its base on the periphery of the cell lower level of the playing field. The stand is made of two collapsible elements: a U-shaped base and a stand, one end of which is made with the possibility of connection with the central part of the middle shelf of the base, and the other with a chip. The support, in an advantageous embodiment of the invention, is made of a transparent polymeric material, but it can be made of any material suitable for these purposes, for example, of wood or metal.

The chessboard is made in the form of a folding card and includes 64 dark and light cells.

The game includes four different-colored complex of game chips for two players, each of which consists of 32 figures, of which 16 figures are made in the form of infantry soldiers and models of ground combat equipment, including headquarters, and 16 figures in the form of models of aviation military equipment .

Game chips related to military aircraft, included in one set, are made in the form of eight figures of helicopters, two heavy fighters, two fighters, two attack aircraft and two bombers. The other part of the game chips of one set is made in the form of models of ground combat equipment: two tanks, two armored personnel carriers, two self-propelled artillery and one rocket launcher.

Part of the game chips included in the kit is made in the form of eight figures of infantry soldiers.

One gaming chip, included in one set, is made in the form of a star with a flag symbolizing the headquarters. A method of playing military chess using the device described above is that on the playing field in the form of a chessboard, forming the lower game level, two different color sets of game pieces are placed, including models of ground combat equipment, infantry soldiers and figures in the form stars with flags symbolizing the headquarters, and above them on stands that form the upper game level, set two different-colored sets of game chips, including models of aviation military equipment, while the chips of the upper and lower level during the game move in accordance with the rules of classical chess, and when you hit the chips of the upper level on the chips of the lower level, the first are removed from the stands and installed in place of the latter.

The rules of classical chess have been worked out for a long time and showed their viability when playing on a two-dimensional black-and-white 64-cell board; therefore, such a system of moving pieces and game rules were adopted for playing inside each game level in the proposed solution.

In modern ground combat, tactical aviation destroys ground targets, and ground forces destroy enemy planes and helicopters, so when these actions are reflected at both levels of the playing field, a system for moving figures from one game level to another and vice versa is developed taking into account the differences and features of these figures. According to the proposed game, ground equipment chips can strike aircraft equipment chips only when the latter are removed from the stands and are on the cells of the lower game level. Chips of aviation equipment can be returned to the upper game level in any of the player's subsequent moves, if they were not destroyed during the attack by the chips of the enemy's ground equipment. At the same time, in the process of returning to the upper level, they can destroy enemy chips located at the upper level.

PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION The invention is illustrated by drawings, where Figures 1-6 show the chips included in the set of the lower game level; Fig.7-11 - chips included in the set of the upper game level; on Fig-game field of the lower level with its corresponding chips (view in axonometric view); on Fig-game field of the upper level with its corresponding chips (view in perspective view); in Fig.14 - the chip of the upper gaming level, located on the stand (view in perspective); in Fig.15-16 - stand disassembled.

Each player has 32 game pieces at their disposal, which reflect different types of troops and differ in color in different game levels, a set of chips of the lower game level consists of 16 one-color chips, including eight figures of infantry soldiers 1 corresponding to pawns shown in Figs. 1-6 in classical chess, models of two self-propelled artillery 2 (self-propelled guns) - rooks; two armored personnel carriers 3 (armored personnel carriers) - horses; two tanks 4 - elephants; one rocket launcher 5 (castle light reactive system - MLRS - the queen and one staff figure 6 (star with a flag) - the king. Above the set of chips of the lower game level, painted in the same color, on the stands set of chips of the upper game level, also consisting of 16 chips, painted in a single color and including eight helicopters 7 shown in Figs. 7-11, corresponding to pawns in classical chess, two pieces of 8 strategic bombers - rooks; two figures of attack aircraft 9 - horses; two figures of fighter 10 - elephants and two figures of heavy fighter 11 - queen and king.

The playing field 12 consists of 64 dark and light, staggered cells, with the horizontal field designation of the field of letters of the Latin alphabet from A to H, and the vertical numbers from 1 to 8.

The chips of both players, like classic chess, are placed at the beginning of the game in the first two rows on opposite sides of the field, while the bases (supporting parts) of the supports of the upper level chips cover the lower level cells (Fig. 13), on which the corresponding chips of the ground combat equipment are placed , infantry soldiers and headquarters (Fig. 12). Each stand 13 for each model of aviation military equipment (Fig. 14) is made collapsible and consists of a base 14 (Fig. 15), which, in the preferred embodiment of the game, has a U-shape and a stepped recess 15 made in the central (middle) part horizontal shelf base 14 for connection with a reciprocal shape of the recess 15 of the mounting part 16 (Fig.16) arcuate rack 17, at the other end of which is formed a protrusion 18, intended for connection with the socket (not shown) formed at the bottom of the aircraft model.

In modern ground combat, ground forces and tactical aircraft supporting them are involved. The main participants in the ground forces are: infantry, armored personnel carriers, artillery, tanks, rocket launchers, etc. Tactical aircraft support the offensive or defense of ground forces, destroying enemy ground and air targets. The main participants of tactical aviation are: combat helicopters, bombers, attack aircraft, fighters and heavy fighters.

Associating the main participants of modern land and air battles with chess pieces, the applicant proceeded from the importance of firepower and the nature of the behavior of this “combat unit” in modern combat, and depending on its combat qualities endowed it with a certain movement system and game rules, as is done in classic chess.

In the proposed game, there is the following system of moving chips in the playing field of two levels. The pieces in the form of figures of headquarters 6, like the king in classical chess, are moved in all directions by one square at the lower game level. A chip in the form of a model of a lower-level rocket launcher 5 and two chips in the form of models of heavy fighters of the upper level 11, like a queen, are moved in all directions to any number of cells. Two chips in the form of models of tanks 4 of the lower level and two chips in the form of models of fighters 10 of the upper level, like an elephant, are moved diagonally to any number of cells. Two chips in the form of models armored personnel carriers 3 of the lower level and two pieces in the form of models of attack aircraft 9 of the upper level, like a horse, move the letter "G". Two chips in the form of models of self-propelled artillery systems 2 of the lower level and two chips in the form of models of bombers of the upper 8 level, like a boat, are moved one square forward, backward and to the sides.

An example implementation of the proposed method of the game.

1 turn of the first player.

An armored personnel carrier makes a move on G1-H2 (similar to a horse). 1 turn of the second player.

The fighter walks F1-D6 (similar to an elephant).

2nd turn of the first player, the bomber goes A1-A4 (similar to a rook).

2nd turn of the second player, the fighter goes D6-H2 - destroys the APC (the chip is removed from the game) the fighter is removed from the stand and put in place of the APC.

3rd turn of the first player, the bomber walks A4-A7 - destroys the infantryman, is removed from the stand and put in its place. 3rd turn of the second player, the fighter is placed on a stand and goes H2-D6.

Claims

Claim

1. A game of military chess containing a playing field in the form of a chessboard forming the lower game level, and game chips, some of which are made in the form of aircraft military equipment with the possibility of installation on a tool forming the upper game level, characterized in that the tool forming the upper game level, made in the form of removable stands for each game chip in the form of a model of aviation military equipment, while the stand is made with the possibility of placing its base on the periphery of the cell below him the level of the playing field.

2. The game according to claim 1, characterized in that the stand is collapsible, consisting of two elements - a U-shaped base and a stand, one end of which is made with the possibility of connection with the base, and the other with a chip.

3. The game according to claim 2, characterized in that the stand is made of a transparent polymeric material.

4. The game according to claim 2, characterized in that the stand is made of wood or metal.

5. The game according to claim 1, characterized in that the chessboard is made in the form of a folding card and includes 64 dark and light cells.

6. The game according to claim 1, characterized in that it includes four sets of game chips of different colors, each of which consists of 32 figures, of which 16 are in the form of figures of infantry soldiers and models of ground combat equipment, including headquarters, and 16 - in the form of models of aviation military equipment.

7. The game according to claim 6, characterized in that the game chips, in the form of aviation military equipment, included in one set, are made in the form of 8 figures of helicopters, two heavy fighters, two fighters, two attack aircraft and two bombers.

8. The game according to claim 6, characterized in that the game chips in the form of ground combat equipment, included in one set, are made in the form of 8 figures of infantry soldiers, one headquarters figure in the form of a star with a flag, one rocket launcher, two tanks, two self-propelled artillery mounts and two armored personnel carriers.

9. The method of playing military chess using the device according to any one of claims 1 to 8, consisting in the fact that two different-colored sets of game pieces, including models, are placed on the playing field in the form of a chessboard forming the lower game level ground combat equipment, infantry soldiers and headquarters figures in the form of stars with flags, and above them on stands that form the upper game level, set two different-colored sets of game pieces, including models of aircraft military equipment, with the upper and lower pieces equals in the game is moved through the cells along with the stand, and when hitting the upper level of chips at the chip level of the lower first removed from the racks and installed in place of the latter.