RU2123371C1 - Method and device for playing "war" chess - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: table games. SUBSTANCE: method involves placing chess pieces presenting participants of advanced battle on playing field; moving chess pieces in accordance with regulations. Pieces of both players may be fastened to playing field cells. Each player has 32 pieces presenting fighting arms and differing in color. Chess pieces are placed and moved across many-sided playing field surface composed of two playing layers. Each playing layer has playing faces arranged in parallel and offset relation one with respect to another in one direction along axis, extending perpendicular to faces, for distance equal to cell width. Projection of playing faces on plane extending in parallel with these playing faces defines surface composed of 64 light and dark cells, whose colors in different playing layers differ one from another. Device has playing field with chess surface and pieces of different color for two players. Playing field is adapted for rotation and provided with many-sided chess surface. Method and device allows play situation to be analyzed simultaneously in several playing layers. EFFECT: simplified construction and increased entertaining effect. 3 cl, 9 dwg

Description

 The invention relates to board games and can be used to play spatial chess.

 A known method of playing spatial chess, V.I. Vinnichenko and A.N. Vasiliev "Board game", RF patent N 1734806, A 63 F 3/02, published in BI N 19, 1992. Chess pieces are mixed in the playing field, which consists of several game layers located 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 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 each other and it is necessary to extend the game layers to analyze the situation.

 A device for playing spatial chess, M. M. Kalinin "Chess" as well. from. N 889021, A 63 F 3/02, published in BI N 46, 1981. Chess consists of a block located one above the other game boards and chess pieces. The boards are connected to one another by racks. In each cell of the game boards, a hole is made to accommodate a pin of a chess piece. A disadvantage of the known device is also an inconvenience when playing due to a limited analysis of the game situation in all game layers at any given time and a decrease in amusement.

 The game concept of spatial chess described above is not sufficiently developed and developed, since the introduction of new game layers located one above the other is equivalent to the introduction of new game spaces (fields). Classic chess was created as a reflection of a real battle on a flat chessboard. The armament and type of troops corresponding to that time — foot soldiers (infantrymen), cavalry, elephants, etc., were displayed on a chessboard in pawns, horses, elephants, a rook, 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 game chess board is two-dimensional. The introduction of even one new game layer located above the first requires the introduction of qualitatively new figures that can move in their game space and move into the space below it. Each new game layer is a new space that requires a completely new kind of game figures and a new system for moving figures, and the rules of the game between game layers, i.e. new game concept.

 Chess pieces, even in spatial chess, should reflect the real participants in the battle. In modern ground combat, ground forces and tactical aviation supporting them participate. Naval combat involves warships, submarines, boats and aircraft based on warships of aircraft carriers. If you display a modern ground battle on a chessboard, then the ground forces will be placed on the lower game layer, and aviation will occupy the upper game layer. For the game, it’s enough to come up with a new system for moving the figures and rules of the game inside each game layer and between two layers. Similarly for naval combat.

 If we carry out similar considerations further, the third game layer should occupy a completely new, as yet non-existent, type of troops with new weapons, for example, space-based troops, etc.

 In addition, spatial chess, consisting of game layers (boards) located one above the other, is not convenient to use and does not make it possible to conduct a simultaneous theoretical analysis of the situations prevailing in all game layers and the analysis of the game as a whole, since the layers overlap each other . It is impossible for a player to play such chess to simultaneously assess the situation prevailing in all game layers. He must either peek between the layers, or push out the lower game layer for analysis, or make holes in the upper game layer and enter the figures on the pins. All this makes it impossible to conduct a simultaneous analysis of the situation prevailing in all game layers at any given time and leads to the inconvenience of using spatial chess.

 Closest to the claimed is a method of playing military chess, M. King "Military chess game", US patent N 5484157, cl. NKI USA 273-260, cl. IPC A 63 F 3/02. The method consists in placing figures reflecting the participants of a modern battle on a playing field with a chess surface and in moving the figures in accordance with the rules of the game. The figures reflecting military aviation are moved in a single game layer along a two-dimensional flat chessboard, as are the figures reflecting ground forces. This refers to the significant disadvantages of the method of the prototype for entertainment, because on a two-dimensional chessboard there are already very popular classic chess.

 Closest to the device for playing military chess is the device, M. King "Military chess game", US patent N 5484157, CL. NKI USA 273-260, cl. IPC A 63 F 3/02, with a playing field with a chess surface and chess pieces that differ in color, for two players.

 The disadvantage of the prototype device is also a decrease in amusement due to the use of the classic playing field with a chess surface, used for popular classical chess, and not introducing an additional playing layer for aviation figures.

 When creating this invention, the problem was solved of creating spatial military chess with a playing field with a multifaceted chess surface so that it had non-overlapping game layers and that it was possible to conduct a simultaneous analysis of the situation in the game layers at any time to increase ease of use and rearrangement of pieces, as well as the introduction into spatial chess of new pieces reflecting the main participants in modern land or naval combat, and the development of a new system of moving eniya shapes and rules of the game within the game of each layer and between the layers to enhance entertaining.

 This result is achieved in that, in comparison with the known method of playing military chess, which consists in placing pieces reflecting the participants of a modern battle on a chessboard with a chess surface, and in moving the pieces in accordance with the rules of the game, the new thing is that the pieces of both players made with the possibility of fixing on the cells of the playing field and including 32 pieces for each player, reflecting different types of troops and differing in color, place and move on a chess surface made of many face and containing two game layers, each of which consists of parallel, offset relative to each other in the same direction along the axis perpendicular to the faces, the width of one cell, game faces, the projection of which onto a plane parallel to them, makes up a plane consisting of 64 light and dark cells, the colors of which in different game layers are different.

 This result is achieved in that, in comparison with the known device for playing military chess, containing a playing field with a chess surface and differing in the color of the figures of two players, it is new that the playing field is rotatable with a multifaceted chess surface and contains two game layers, each of which consists of parallel game faces displaced relative to each other in the same direction along an axis perpendicular to the faces, by the width of one cell, while the projection of parallel and The flat faces on the plane parallel to them is a plane consisting of 64 light and dark cells, the colors of which in different game layers are different, and the figures of both players made with the possibility of fixing on the cells of the playing field and include for each player 32 figures reflecting different military branches and differing in color.

 In FIG. 1 shows the inventive device for playing military chess.

 In FIG. 2a shows the projection of the main (first) game layer on a plane parallel to its faces, and 2b shows the projection of the second additional game layer on a plane parallel to its faces.

 In FIG. 3 shows a set of figures for the game "Land battle"; 3a - land figures; 3b - aviation figures.

 In FIG. 4 shows the arrangement of the figures at the beginning of the game; 4a - on the main game layer; 4b - on an additional game layer.

 In FIG. 5 arrows show the movement of a figure reflecting a combat helicopter from one game layer to another game layer; 5a - without a fight and 5b - with a fight.

 In FIG. 6 arrows show the movement of a figure reflecting a fighter-bomber from one game layer to another game layer with and without combat.

 In FIG. 7 arrows indicate the movement of a figure reflecting a reconnaissance aircraft from one game layer to another game layer with and without combat.

 In FIG. 8 arrows show the movement of a figure reflecting an attack aircraft from one game layer to another game layer with and without combat.

 In FIG. 9 arrows show the movement of a figure reflecting a fighter from one game layer to another game layer with and without combat.

A device for playing military chess is not made in the form of a block of game layers (boards), but in the form of a multifaceted surface 1, FIG. 1. Such a device has a playing field consisting of game faces 2. Parallel game faces form one game layer 3, parallel game faces located at an angle to the first game layer (the most optimal angle is 90 ^o ) form a second game layer 4. When viewed on top of FIG. 2a, the player sees a projection of parallel game faces onto a plane parallel to these faces. He sees in the projection an ordinary chess plane, consisting of 64 dark and light cells that make up the first (main) game layer, the horizontal letters of which are latin letters from A to H, and the vertical numbers from 1 to 8. When you rotate a multifaceted game surface around the axis - 5 of FIG. 1 at an angle of 90 ^° , the player again in projection onto a plane parallel to other faces will see a checkerboard plane consisting of 64 dark and light cells, different in color from the cells of the first layer, and making up the second playing layer of FIG. 2b, the horizontal of which the letters of the Latin alphabet from A 'to H' (letters with a stroke) are postponed, and the digits from 1 to 8 remain vertically.

 To alternate the color of the cells between the game layers and the difference between the game layers, the cells of the first game layer are colored, for example, in black and white, and the cells of the second game layer are painted in any two contrasting colors, for example, red-blue or yellow-green, etc. The figures of different game layers should differ not only in shape, but also in color. Black and white pieces play in the black and white game layer, red and blue play in red and blue, etc.

Then, when analyzing the situation, the player, when viewed from above, simultaneously sees the projection of the first black-and-white game layer and the black-and-white figures located on it, as well as the projection of the side view of the red-blue figures located in the red-blue game layer not visible when viewed from above on a black and white field. When the game board rotates around an axis - 5 of FIG. 1 at an angle of 90 ^{o the} situation will change to the opposite. If the player deviates slightly from the top view towards the invisible edges of FIG. 1, he will see both black-and-white and red-blue game layers and the isometric figures located on them at the same time.

The rotation of the chessboard by an angle of 90 ^o around the axis 5 of FIG. 1 will allow the player to more carefully assess the situation prevailing in each game layer and see the threat of attack by the figures of the second layer. And the isometric projection will allow him to assess the situation as a whole, i.e. the situation in both game layers.

 A chessboard of this form makes it possible to conduct a simultaneous analysis of the situation in each game layer, in both game layers at any given time, and they are convenient for rearranging pieces.

 To keep the figures on the playing surface, any reliable system for fastening figures can be used. For example, to hold the pieces in an upright position, it is enough that the surface of the piece touching the board is with a built-in magnet, and the playing surface of the board is metal.

 In addition, new pieces are introduced into spatial chess, reflecting the main participants in modern land or sea combat, and a system is developed for moving the pieces and rules of the game within each game layer and between two layers. As an example, here are two games called Ground Combat and Sea Battle.

 1. The game "Ground battle".

 In modern ground combat, ground forces and tactical aviation supporting them participate. The main participants in the ground forces are infantry, armored personnel carriers, artillery, tanks, guards mortars, 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, fighter-bombers, attack aircraft, fighters and reconnaissance aircraft (such as "Stelz", USA).

 Reflecting the main participants of modern land combat into chess pieces, it is necessary to proceed from the importance, firepower and nature of the behavior of this “combat unit” in modern combat, and depending on its combat qualities, give it a specific movement system and game rules, as is done in classic chess. In FIG. 3a, b depicts the main figures intended for playing in the "Ground battle".

 Classic chess has a harmonious system of moving pieces and strict rules of the game. These rules have been worked out for centuries and reached their perfection when playing on a two-dimensional black-and-white 64-cell board, therefore it is impossible to come up with the best system for moving pieces and game rules for playing inside one game layer. But in modern ground combat, tactical aviation destroys ground targets, and ground forces destroy enemy planes and helicopters, so when these actions are reflected on a chessboard, it is necessary to develop a system for moving pieces and rules of the game only for moving pieces from one playing layer to another and back their differences and features.

1. For each player, 32 pieces were introduced, reflecting different types of troops and differing in color, and placed at the beginning of the game in the first two rows on one side of the board, but in different game layers, and the figures of the other player in the two first rows on the opposite side of the board , and also in various game layers of FIG. 4 a, b,
2. inside one game layer, the system for moving the pieces and the game rules adopted in classical chess operate only for figures belonging to this game layer.

Let us take into account the fact that land equipment and infantry cannot fly, and aviation, when destroying ground targets, can very close to them and can land and take off from it. With this in mind, we assume that
3. land chess pieces play only in a black and white game layer,
4. figures depicting aviation play in their own, for example, red-blue, game layer and can go into a black and white game layer and back with battle and without battle, that is, destroying the enemy’s figure, or move to a free cell.

Note that when an aircraft lands, it doesn’t fight and that when attacking a ground target, combat aircraft approaches the target for delivering a fire attack, at that moment she herself is attacked by a ground “combat unit”, therefore, displaying these actions on a chessboard , we believe that
5. chess pieces depicting aviation can move from their playing layer to black and white and vice versa, with or without a fight, only to the black and white (red-blue) cell closest to it; FIG. 5-9,
6. Aviation pieces cannot walk inside a black and white game layer and can be destroyed in it by any land piece according to the rules of classical chess.

For the convenience of analyzing situations occurring in all game layers at any time, it is necessary that the figures depicting aviation differ from land figures not only in shape but also in color, for example, red-blue, then
7. white ground figures will accompany the blue figures representing aviation, and together they will form a single army,
8. Black will accompany the pieces painted in red, and together they will form the army of the opponent.

 9. The game begins with a white-blue move, and the player makes a move either with a white ground piece, then with a blue aviation one, or vice versa, the priority does not matter. The opponent answers the same, also makes two moves with black and red pieces in any sequence.

Inside one game layer there is a system for moving pieces and game rules adopted in classical chess, only for pieces belonging to a given game layer, i.e. black and white figures representing ground forces inside the black and white game layer play according to the principle of classical chess:
10. modern infantrymen will replace pawns and will go with or without combat according to the same rules as pawns in classical chess, only inside the black and white layer;
11. the tank will replace the rook and will move along the black-and-white playing layer with or without a fight, just like a rook in classical chess;
12. an artillery cannon or mortar will notice the horse and will move with or without combat in the same way only inside the black and white game layer;
13. an armored personnel carrier will take the place of an elephant and will move with or without combat in the same way only inside the black and white game layer;
14. The Grad rocket launcher will take the place of the queen and will move with or without battle, like the queen, only inside the black and white game layer;
15. The king will be replaced by the supreme commander’s headquarters (combat headquarters) and will move with or without combat, like a king, only inside the black and white game layer.

Red-blue pieces depicting tactical aviation inside the red-blue game layer also play according to the principle of classical chess;
16. combat helicopters will take the place of pawns and will move with or without combat, like pawns, only inside the red-blue playing layer;
17. fighter-bombers will take the place of the rook and will move with or without combat, like a rook, only inside the red-blue playing layer,
18. reconnaissance aircraft will take the place of horses and will move with or without combat, like a horse, only inside the red-blue playing layer;
19. stormtroopers will take the place of elephants and will move with or without battle, like an elephant, only inside the red-blue game layer.

 In aviation figures there is no figure acting as a king. This is due to the fact that tactical aviation supports the actions of ground forces, which are considered the main ones in ground combat, destroying enemy ground and air targets.

 20. Two fighters will replace the queen and the king and will move with or without battle, like the queen, only inside the red-blue game layer.

 The goal of the game is the same as in classical chess - the destruction of the opponent’s pieces and the installation of a mat to the general staff of the opponent or the conclusion of a peace agreement in the event of a tie.

 Red-blue figures depicting aviation move from their playing layer, from red or blue cells, to black-and-white and vice versa, with or without a fight, only to the black or white (red or blue) cell closest to it.

21. Combat helicopters switch from their game layer to black and white and vice versa as follows:
a) without a fight, they go horizontally left or right to the adjacent cell of the black and white game layer, with the reverse moving horizontally left or right to the adjacent cell of the red and blue game layer, FIG. 5a;
b) fight diagonally to the left or right and only forward to the adjacent cell of the black and white game layer, with the reverse diagonal to the left or right and only forward to the adjacent cell of the red and blue game layer, FIG. 5 B.

 22. A fighter-bomber switches from its playing layer to black and white and vice versa with combat and without combat only horizontally left or right to the adjacent cell of the black and white game layer, with the reverse moving horizontally left or right to the adjacent cell of red-blue game layer, FIG. 6.

 23. A reconnaissance aircraft moves from its playing layer to black and white and back with and without combat, first taking a step through the cell vertically forward or backward inside its playing layer, and then horizontally left or right to the adjacent cell in black and white the game layer, upon the reverse transition, first steps through the cell vertically forward or backward along the black and white game layer, and then horizontally left or right to the adjacent cell of the red-blue game layer, FIG. 7.

 24. An attack aircraft moves from its playing layer to black and white and back with and without combat only diagonally forward or backward left or right to the adjacent cell of the black-and-white playing layer, with a reverse transition - diagonally forward or backward left or right to the adjacent cell of the red-blue playing layer, FIG. eight.

 25. A fighter moves from his playing layer to black-and-white and vice versa, with and without combat, diagonally forward or backward left or right and horizontally left or right to the adjacent cell of the black-and-white playing layer, with a reverse transition, diagonally forward or back left or right and horizontally left or right to the adjacent cell of the red-blue game layer, FIG. nine.

 2. The game "Sea battle".

 Modern naval combat involves warships, submarines, boats and tactical aircraft, based on warships, aircraft carriers. Tactical aircraft support the offensive or defense of the naval forces, destroying surface, underwater and air targets of the enemy. In the game "Sea battle" you can leave the same participants in tactical aviation as in the game "Land battle" - these are combat helicopters, fighter-bombers, attack aircraft, fighters and reconnaissance aircraft (such as "Stelz" of the USA).

 Displaying the main participants in modern naval combat into chess pieces, it is necessary to proceed from the importance, firepower and behavior of this “combat unit” in modern combat, and depending on its combat qualities, give it a specific movement system and game rules, as is done in classical chess.

In the game "Sea Battle", warships, submarines and boats will replace ground figures, and the main participants in tactical aviation will remain the same, so we will assume that
1. in the game "Sea Battle", the points of rules 1 through 9 inclusive, adopted in the game "Land Battle", are fulfilled only for figures representing warships, submarines and boats, as well as for figures representing tactical aviation,
2. In the game "Sea battle" the points of rules from 16 to 256 inclusive, adopted in the game "Land battle", designed for figures representing tactical aircraft, are fulfilled.

The system of moving the pieces and the rules of the game adopted in classical chess operate within one game layer only for figures belonging to this game layer, i.e. black and white figures representing warships, submarines and boats inside the black and white game layer according to the principle of classical chess:
10. modern torpedo boats will replace pawns and will go with or without battle according to the same rules as pawns in classical chess, only inside the black and white layer;
11. the modern destroyer (destroyer) will replace the rook and will move along the black and white playing layer with or without combat, just like a rook in classical chess;
12. a modern submarine will replace the horse and will move with or without combat in the same way only inside the black and white game layer;
13. A modern missile boat will take the place of an elephant and will move with or without combat in the same way only inside the black and white game layer;
14. The modern cruiser will take the place of the queen and will move with or without battle, like a queen, only inside the black and white game layer;
15. The king will be replaced by a modern aircraft carrier and will move with or without combat, like a king, only inside the black and white game layer.

 The goal of the game is the same as in classical chess - the destruction of the opponent’s pieces and the installation of a mat for an enemy aircraft carrier or the conclusion of a peace agreement in the event of a tie.

When implementing the inventive chess and playing in them, the following must be considered:
figures belonging to the same military branch, especially for figures depicting combat aircraft and naval surface ships, must be different in shape from each other, so models for military aircraft, ships and boats, which vary greatly in shape, should be selected;
the length of the figure should not exceed 3/4 of the width of the cell, the width of the figure should not exceed 2/3 of the width of the cell and the height of the figure should not exceed 1/3 of the width of the cell. This is due to the fact that the pieces do not clutter the board and do not overlap each other;
a multifaceted chessboard can be made in a collapsible and portable version with a set of pieces, or in a stationary one on a special table with fixed axes around which the board rotates, and a set of pieces.

Thus, in comparison with the prototype method, in which new figures are introduced that reflect the main participants in modern combat, and game rules for a two-dimensional chessboard are developed, the game concept developed in the present method allows:
introduce for each player 32 pieces that reflect different types of troops and differing in color, and place them at the beginning of the game in the first two rows on one side of the board, but in different game layers, and the figures of the other player in the two first rows on the opposite side of the board , but also in different game layers;
to develop a system for moving figures and game rules inside each game layer and between layers to increase entertainment;
place various types of troops, for example, ground forces and aviation, in different game layers to increase ease of use;
distinguish in color the various types of troops that make up a single army to improve ease of use;
both one and the other player, immediately to do in the course of the figures of various branches of the armed forces in any sequence to increase entertainment.

Compared with the prototype of the device, the creation of a checkered surface of a multifaceted shape makes it possible:
introduce two non-overlapping game layers, which allows you to simultaneously analyze the situation in each game layer, and in both game layers at any time;
convenient access to figures and rearrangement of figures inside both game layers and between layers;
introduce the second not black and white, but, for example, a red-blue game layer for alternating the color of cells between layers and differences between game layers;
rotate the chessboard by the angles necessary for the players to analyze the situation in each game layer and on the chess surface as a whole.

Claims (2)

 1. The method of playing military chess, which consists in placing on the playing field with a chess surface figures that reflect the participants of a modern battle, and in moving the pieces in accordance with the rules of the game, characterized in that the figures of both players, made with the possibility of fixing on the cells of the playing field and including for each player 32 pieces, reflecting different types of troops and differing in color, place and move on a chess surface made of many-sided and containing two game layers, each of which consists of parallel, spaced relation to each other in one direction along an axis perpendicular to the faces, the width of one cell, game facets whose projection on a plane parallel to them, is a plane consisting of the 64 light and dark cells whose colors are different gaming layers are different.  2. A device for playing military chess, comprising a playing field with a chess surface and different color figures of two players, characterized in that the playing field is rotatable with a multifaceted chess surface and contains two game layers, each of which consists of parallel game the faces displaced relative to each other in the same direction along the axis perpendicular to the faces, the width of one cell, while the projection of the parallel game faces on a plane parallel to them is a plane, consisting of 64 light and dark cells, the colors of which in different game layers are different, and the figures of both players, made with the possibility of fixing on the cells of the playing field, and include 32 figures for each player, which reflect different types of troops and differ in color.

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