RU2097086C1 - Device for three-dimensional logical space chess type games - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: games, puzzles. SUBSTANCE: device has three-dimensional construction containing four chessboards, arranged in tiers and fastened one relative to the other by tightening and spacing members, and set of playing pieces. Chessboards are divided into playing fields made in the form of staggered cells of different colors. Chessboards are made from transparent or netted material so that adjacent chessboards may be viewed through them. Playing fields of similar color are positioned in common vertical line and spaced by distance equal to side of playing field. Each chessboard is divided into 16 playing fields. Initial set of playing pieces of three-dimensional construction for space chess type game, i.e. set of spatial or cosmic chess pieces, includes one "king" and odd number of pieces, such as one "bishop", one "knight", one "rook', four pawns of respective color for each player. Tightening member may be formed as central pin and spacing members may be formed as cross-pieces mounted on central pin between chessboards. Computer version of tree-dimensional construction with playing pieces may be formed as three-dimensional projection of device on screen (or hologram). In this version, tightening and spacing members between tiers may be omitted from image. EFFECT: increased amusing effect and simplified construction. 3 cl, 4 dwg

Description

 The invention relates to intellectual, logical, volumetric games and can be used for general education, developing volumetric logical thinking of the game.

A known device design for the logical game of "chess", made in the form of a flat square chessboard [1] with alternating black and white playing fields, comprising a total of 64 playing fields. Each of the two partners has 8 pieces and 8 pawns in white or black. It is well known that this game can be played by moving chess pieces with the hands of players, and when playing with a computer, the player’s hands both for himself and for the computer’s progress displayed on the indicator [2]
A disadvantage of the known design is the inability to play the game equally in three dimensions.

 The volumetric design [3] is also known, which allows moving pieces in three dimensions with the help of long pins mounted on top of each chess piece. Moving through holes in the playing fields of all 7 upper tiers. Each chess piece is fixed on the hole of its playing field with the help of an elastic flexible “skirt”, bent by the force of pushing the piece with a pin. The game is played by the same number of pieces as in ordinary chess and according to the same rules, but instead of a maximum of four degrees of freedom / such as, for example, a figure like a “queen” in traditional chess / in volume, a maximum of 13 degrees of freedom appears.

 The disadvantage of this device is the complexity of its design, which has increased the number of playing fields by an order of magnitude compared to the well-known 64-cell chess, as it provides 64 cells on each tier.

 Another significant drawback is the difficulty of visual perception of the situation in the bulky game volume, in most cases not allowing the player on his side of the board to see the game situation without going around the whole structure.

 At the same time, in addition to tiers and figures, 32 more pins and numerous racks of the device itself impede the view, and to remove a lower figure when moving it, it is necessary to remove and then put all the higher ones in place, and the probability of tipping over / due to long pins / figures of the upper the tier is very high.

 The prototype of the proposed device is the solution described in the French patent: "Playing chess using three directions in space" [4] made in the form of 8 ordinary 64-cell chessboards arranged one above the other, in which the "white" cells are transparent, and " black "with the strokes put on them are translucent. The principle of the game remains the same as on a flat board, and the third direction allows you to significantly increase the number of possible moves.

 This device eliminates the use of pins, which simplifies the overview, but does not allow to overcome the difficulty of moving the figures in their game volume. So, it remains a problem to move the figures in the central and opposite parts of the volume from the player without additional devices.

 The indicated reasons, consisting in the bulkiness of the prototype device itself, combined with a significantly increased number of degrees of freedom of game figures, when implementing the method of playing in three-dimensional space, but remaining, as in traditional chess, an unchanged set of game figures impedes obtaining the required technical result.

The essence of the invention is the creation of the simplest volumetric space-based gaming device, allowing with sufficiently comfortable visibility and convenient for players moving game pieces or installing checkers on the playing fields inside the device to carry out voluminous logic games, such as chess, or renju [5 ]
The solution to the problem of creating the simplest and nevertheless sufficient effect for a voluminous, exciting, intellectual game is achieved by the fact that in the Space Chess device the game volume is made in the form of four chess boards-tiers of transparent material with 16 game fields marked on each of them moreover, the tiers can be fastened by means of one central tie-rod with a nut and three spacers installed in the center of the chessboards-tiers, at the borders of the playing fields, and also possibly reinforced a fastening for the game of young children with two coupling pins with nuts and, accordingly, six spacers, also located on the borders of the extreme and the next playing fields along the diagonal of the board or along the center line dividing the square of the board into two equal rectangles, which is practically Does not interfere with the installation and review of figures.

 The Space Chess device is distinguished by an unpaired set of figures, i.e. one king, one queen, one elephant, one horse, one rook and four pawns for each player.

 In FIG. 1 shows a device for volumetric logic games "space chess" in assembled form, in the embodiment with a housing and a drawer for storing removable parts and game figures, the figures themselves are not shown; in FIG. 2 is a section through a unit in which a pulling pin with a nut connects the upper and the next tier through distance crosses; the locking protrusions of the crosses protect the tiers from turning; in FIG. 3 variant of the remote cross made of an opaque material, such as metal.

 The device includes a game volume made in the form of four chessboards-tiers 1, on which the playing fields 2 and 3 differing in color in the amount of 16 fields for each tier are staggered. The tiers are fastened by means of a central tie pin 4 and three spacers 5. The device is mounted on the housing 6 with a drawer 7, used to fold the device to the transport and storage of the figures.

 The game volume is fixed with a nut 8, and the locking tabs 9 included in the holes of the tiers prevent the tiers from turning relative to the central stud.

 The assembly “Space Chess” begins with fixing the lower end of the hairpin 4 (Fig. 2), in the center of the housing 6, then the distance crosspieces 5 and tiers 1 are sequentially put on it so that the “black” playing fields of all four tiers are, respectively, over the “blacks”, and the “whites” over the “whites”. The protrusions of 9 distance crosses are fixed in the holes of the tiers, the assembly ends.

 Embodiments of a cross made of an opaque material, such as metal or plastic, are shown in FIG. 3.

 Each of the 64 playing fields has its own designation for recording moves, similar to conventional chess in the form of letters a, b, c, d and numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 (Fig. 1), and before the field designation, the Roman number indicates the tier number . Numbering is made from bottom to top.

An example of the initial construction of figures:
White pieces: Rook Ia1, Horse Ib1, Elephant Ic1, King Id1 Pawns: IVa1, IVb1, IVc1, IVd1.

 Black pieces: Rook Ia4, Horse Ib4, Elephant Ic4, King Id4 Pawns: IVa4, IVb4, IVc4, IVd4.

 According to the rules of each other, according to the rules of each other, the white and black rooks can never “take” along the line Ia1 Ia4, the white bishop moves only along the “black” diagonal, and the black only along the “white” diagonal.

 For White, the “queen” appears when any of the four pawns is moved from the starting position to the Ia4 Id4 line, for Black, respectively, in the opposite direction.

The game is played in the entire cubic volume by the mechanical movement of the figures manually in the normal version of the game or through the remote control in the computer version with a normal display screen or with a holographic image [6]
The game "Space Chess", or "space chess", can be played either by ordinary chess pieces or stylized for young chess players, in this case the game can be made of various materials that are allowed for the production of games, including edible ones.

An example of stylized execution:
1. The pawn is “humanoid”, the top of the pawn is carried out in a transparent ball, with the face of an “alien” inside.

 2. Rook "UFO", at the top, instead of the battlements of the rook, a disk-shaped UFO is made.

 3. The horse "Pegasus", with additional small wings to the usual chess horse.

 4. Elephant Shuttle, portrayed as a space shuttle Space Shuttle.

 5. King "King", the main chess piece.

 6. Queen "Superman", portrayed in the form of a fantastic figure.

 A volumetric logic game of the "Renju" type is carried out in a similar way, but with the difference in that the checkers are placed on the playing fields without their subsequent movement until a full chain of four checkers of the same color is built in any direction.

The Space Chess device can also be transformed for other voluminous logic games in which the "black" playing fields alternate vertically with the "white", for this it is enough to turn the second and fourth tiers 90 ^° and fix this position.

 For the convenience of visual observation of the game, the 2nd, 3rd and 4th tiers are made of flat transparent material, such as plastic, and the "black" playing fields are tinted in any color, and it is possible to make tiers of a transparent, for example, plastic mesh.

 A distinctive feature of the Space Chess device is that the game volume is made in the form of four game boards-tiers according to the type of chess with 16 playing fields marked on each of them and an asymmetric set of figures is applied, including initially one king, one elephant, one knight, one rook and four pawns of each color for each player, and the “queen” piece in the “space chess” device can appear only during the game by posting the pawn to the initial line of the opponent’s pieces.

 The proposed device simultaneously solves two problems that are not solved in the analogues and prototype.

 The first task: when moving the figures with the player’s hand, both to the right of the cross and to the left of it there is not a single interference in the form of racks.

 The second task: the amount of visual interference from multiple racks and pins is greatly reduced.

 The space chess device, unlike the prototype, is not based on a simple repetition in the third dimension of the well-known chess game for the sole purpose of giving the game volume.

 The achieved result is the creation of a new game that preserves the main advantages of traditional chess and "Chess using three directions in space."

The main advantages of the proposed device "Space Chess":
verified by a centuries-old history as normal for the perception by the gamers the number of game cells equal to 64;
giving the game by analogy with the prototype of the third dimension for the development of volumetric thinking of the players;
achieving the optimal ratio in one space clock device of such conflicting requirements as sufficient for an interesting game, but at the same time clearly visible to the gamers, which is only 1/8 of the prototype volume;
the relative simplicity of the “Space Chess” design in comparison with the prototype allows players to move figures without special devices, and also to easily assemble and disassemble the entire simple, voluminous structure with just one stud with a nut;
the simplicity of the “Space Chess” design allows for its three-dimensional image to be made using a computer or on a television screen using the well-known computer graphics method [7] or the holographic image method [6]. In these cases, there is no need even for a support for the tiers, but an additional opportunity for a stylized image an enlarged four-tier construction of the Space Chess against the background of open space, and in two fundamentally different versions:
option 1, the design is traditionally depicted from the side of the player looking at the space chess device with the figures located on it;
option 2 with the effect of presence, when the entire structure is depicted from the inside, that is, from the location of any figure, for example, the "king". In this embodiment, the review of the "top", "bottom" and other directions and taking figures is carried out according to a predetermined algorithm or using the remote control [7] designed to control the cursor on the monitor screen in three-dimensional projections.

 An embodiment of a computer embodiment of the space clock device is given in FIG. 4.

 In FIG. 4 block 2 "Downloading the coordinates of the installation" Space Chess "in the computer's memory" is a sign that characterizes the specific design of the device of the game "Space Chess" for playback in a computer version / the block number may be different /.

 Blocks from 3rd to 10th are not a block diagram of a computer program, but can be included in it and are given to understand the implementation of the proposed device in a computer version.

 The technical result of the use of the device "space chess" is the ability to implement on it and other voluminous logic games.

 An example of such a proposed volumetric game is a Renju game. Its significant differences are, in addition to the three-dimensionality of the game, also the reduction of the chain to “four in a row” when the checkers are placed not on the intersecting lines [5] but directly on the playing fields of the space chess device, both “white” and “black” . The volume of the game makes it possible, while reducing the length of the chain, to simultaneously increase the orientation of the chains to thirteen directions. A Renju-style game is conducted according to simple rules, which makes it accessible to a younger age.

Sources of information
1. Zack V. Dlugolensky I. "I play chess", L. 1985.

 2. Geek E. Man and the computer. 64 Chess Review, N 13, 1991.

 3. Auto N 889021, CL A 63 F 3/00, publ. 12/15/81.

 4. French patent N 2055573, cl. A F 3/00, publ. 1971.

 5. Sapronov V. From tic-tac-toe to renju drafts. Science and Life, 1980, N 9 / 108-110 /, N 10 / 113-115 /.

 6. Safronov V. Ghosts on blue screens, Evening Kharkov, 13.6.89.

 7. Microinformation 1215, Inventor and Rationalizer, N 12/23 /, 1991.

Claims (3)

 1. Device for volume logical games, for example, a type of chess, comprising a three-dimensional structure of chess game boards, fastened together by tiers by means of pulling and spacer elements and with playing fields marked out in a checkerboard pattern and different in color and made with the possibility of visual observation through them adjacent game boards, the playing fields of the same color being located on the same vertical line with the distance between them equal to the side of the playing field, and the set of game figures which consists in the fact that the three-dimensional structure consists of four game boards of the type of a chessboard made of transparent or mesh material, but with 16 different-colored playing fields in the form of cells marked on each of them, and the initial set of figures of the three-dimensional structure for playing in the “space” Chess ", i.e. spatial or space chess, includes one king and an unpaired number of pieces: one elephant, one horse, one rook and four pawns of the corresponding color for each player.  2. The device according to claim 1, characterized in that the tightening element is made in the form of a central pin, and spacer elements in the form of crosses mounted on a central pin between the game boards.  3. The device according to claim 1, characterized in that the three-dimensional structure with game figures in the computer version is made in the form of a three-dimensional projection of the device on the screen or holographically, consisting of four game boards-tiers of the type of chess with 16 playing fields each and a set of game figures, and the tightening and spacer elements between the tiers may not be depicted.

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