RU2129897C1 - Chess playing device - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: games and amusing equipment. SUBSTANCE: chess-type game has board divided into rows of alternating light and dark cells, two sets of similar playing plugs of different color symbolizing chess pieces, and playing plug selecting member composed of three polyhedrons. First polyhedron is formed as regular hexahedron with symbols of five pieces and pawn on each face. Second polyhedron is formed as regular octahedron with images of four symbols of "knight" and four symbols of "bishop" on its faces. Third polyhedron is formed as regular icosahedron with four images of symbols of all pieces except for "king" on each face. EFFECT: increased entertaining effect by providing modeling of unusual playing situations. 4 dwg

Description

 The invention relates to board games in checkered square fields, namely to chess.

 Existing chess has a number of known disadvantages. Firstly, the game requires knowledge of theory and practice, which takes years, constant training and therefore it is difficult for beginners. Secondly, modern chess has long been a sport for selected intellectuals, and many chess openings are planned dozens of moves ahead, and if you do not follow the rigid logic of the game, then losing is inevitable. This reduces interest in chess creativity. Thirdly, the development of cybernetics, the success in creating high-speed computers with large memory, poses a threat to the existence of modern chess - because the memory and speed of the human brain cannot grow indefinitely, like in computers. The last match of “Deep Blue” with Kasparov showed that one or two generations of computers and the game of modern chess will lose their meaning.

 There are many proposals to eliminate these shortcomings. So, the eleventh world champion R. Fisher proposed before each party to arrange the figures on the last horizontals not in the accepted order, but in an arbitrary way, by lot. The number of options is very large, more than a third of a million, it is almost impossible to execute such a number of computer programs. Each game will start with a clean slate, cheat sheets in the form of hundreds of openings and variations of the games played will be completely useless - only quick wit, reaction, attention, endurance and other sports qualities of athletes will matter. However, this analogue changes some rules of the ancient game, for example, a move called "castling" becomes ambiguous and, at times, even impossible.

 Another analogue of the presented invention is a game method described in the journal "Chess in Russia" N 3, 1998. The formalization of the game is also blocked here, but its rules must be changed.

 The device according to the patent RU, N 2091110, A 63 F 3/02 is also known. Here it is proposed to change the strength and transformation of the pieces, as well as equip chess with two identical means of choosing a game chip to make a move in the form of a polyhedron with symbols of pieces and pawns on its faces. This tool is made in the form of a cube with rounded corners and with symbols of chess pieces and pawns on the edges.

 The disadvantage of the prototype is the need to change the rules of the game of chess, which essentially makes it no longer chess.

 One of the closest analogues is a board game containing a board divided into rows of alternating light and dark cells, two identical sets of game pieces of different colors, symbolizing chess pieces, and a game chip selection tool (US 3794326 A, IPC A 63 F 3/02 02/26/74).

 The disadvantage of the famous game is its low amusement.

 The objective of the invention is to create such a game in which increased amusement due to the ability to simulate unusual game situations.

 The task is achieved by the fact that in a board game containing a board divided into rows of alternating light and dark cells, two identical sets of game pieces of different colors, symbolizing chess pieces, and a game chip selection tool, a game chip selection tool consists of three polyhedra. In this case, the first polyhedron is made in the form of a regular hexagon, on the faces of which the symbols of all five pieces and pawns are shown, the second polyhedron is made in the form of a regular octahedron, on the faces of which are four symbols of the “horse” and four symbols of the “elephant”, and the third polyhedron is made in in the form of a regular hexahedron, on the edge of which four images of symbols of all figures, except for the "king", are plotted.

 The invention is illustrated by drawings.

 In FIG. 1 shows a means for selecting a chip for determining placement, in the form of a regular octahedron, on the faces of which four symbols of “horse” and “elephant” are depicted; in FIG. 2 - a means of simulating a "stupid move" in the form of a regular hexagon (cube), on the edges of which the symbols of all the pieces and pawns are depicted; figure 3 - a means of simulating a "yawn" in the form of a regular twenty-sided (icosahedron), on the faces of which are marked four images of all the pieces and pawns, except for the king. Designations of the figures: “Kr” is the king, “F” is the queen, “L” is the rook, “K” is the knight, “C” is the bishop, “P” is the pawn. In FIG. 4 shows the arrangement of the figures before the start of the batch of the "twin" version, in which the arrangement of the white and black figures is the same; figure 5 is the initial diagram of the "arbitrary" option, where the location of the figures in black and white is arbitrary; figure 6 is the initial diagram of the "opposition" option with the opposition of the figures "elephant" and "horse".

 A board game contains a board, divided into rows of alternating light and dark cells, two identical sets of game pieces of different colors, symbolizing chess pieces, and a means of choosing a game chip. The game chip selector consists of three polyhedrons. One polyhedron is made in the form of a regular hexagon, while on its faces symbols of all five pieces and pawns are depicted. The second polyhedron is made in the form of a regular octahedron, while on its faces four symbols of the “horse” and four symbols of the “elephant” are depicted. The third polyhedron is made in the form of a regular twenty-sided polyhedron, while on its face four images of symbols of all figures, except for the “king”, are applied.

 So, in particular, the board game is equipped with chips to determine the placement of the chess pieces “elephant” and “horse” on the fields belonging to them, which is made in the form of a regular octahedron (oxahedron), on the faces of which are four symbols of the “horse” and four symbols “elephant”, as well as two means of simulating a “stupid move” and “yawn” made in the form of a regular hexagon, on the faces of which all five pieces and a pawn are depicted, and a regular twenty-sided triangle, on the sides of which four images of all symbols fishing figures, except for the "king".

 The resulting combinations of placing the “elephant” and “horse” make it possible to obtain several variants of the game “double”, “arbitrary” and “opposition”.

 The game is as follows.

 1. The "twin" option.

Before the start of the game, an octahedron rushes four times and, according to the symbols “elephant” and “horse”, these figures are sequentially placed on the fields (B ₁ and B ₇ ), (C ₁ and C ₇ ) and (F ₁ and F ₇ ), (g ₁ and g ₇ ). Then the game continues as a regular chess game.

 2. The "arbitrary" option.

Before the start of the game, an octahedron rushes 8 times. The first four drawn figures are arranged sequentially in the fields B ₁ , C ₁ , F ₁ , g ₁ , the following are likewise arranged in the fields B ₇ , C ₇ , F ₇ , g ₇ . Then the game continues as usual.

 3. The "opposition" option.

Before the start of the game, an octahedron is thrown four times and the dropped pieces are placed in the fields in the opposite way, for example, if “Horse” fell on B ₁ - the first throw, then “Elephant” is set on B ₇ , if “Elephant” is dropped on the second throw for C ₁ , then on C ₇ , “Horse” is set, etc. After four throws, the placement of the light pieces is over and the game proceeds as usual.

 The number of possible versions of the game is too large for homework, previously played games, and developed openings to win, although the rules of the game have not changed at all.

 In particularly responsible parties, the following two additional tricks are used to fully guarantee the absence of computer interference.

 1. "The course of fate" (analogue of the weak, "stupid" move). At the party’s predetermined course, say, on the tenth, the judge stops the clock and throws the hexagon twice, for white and for black. Then the watch starts again and the partners make the mandatory moves donated by the fortune with the dropped pieces. If the goddess’s team cannot be used (there is already no such piece on the board, the check is opened or the king falls under the check, the rules do not allow shorter walks), the player walks with any piece at his discretion - a lucky chance. Chess rules are not violated. Everything happens as usual with a weak or stupid move, encountered in a real game - the situation on the battlefield changes dramatically and no pre-programmed plan or plan can help here. Both the person and the computer will have to work, evaluating the possible pros and cons in the created position. And the machine’s gigantic memory is unlikely to save here - you cannot put such situations into it in advance.

 2. "Sword of Fortune" / analogue of "yawn" /. Periodically, say, after every 20 moves, the arbiter throws a twenty-sided figure with the image of all the pieces except the “king”, and determines which one should be removed from the board by each partner. If the figure indicated by the "rock" is no longer on the board, any one removed by the player’s will is removed - again, a happy case. This situation cannot be taken into account by the program. Partners will have to rely only on a quick assessment of the situation and choose the most suitable moves. Help here by pre-programming is not possible.

 Thus, the chances of partners are equalized - the winner will be the one who is better guided in unusual, extreme situations, spends less time and effort on it - in other words, demonstrates quick wits and intelligence, and not the ability to cramming and Talmudism.

Claims (1)

 A board game containing a board divided into rows of alternating light and dark cells, two identical sets of game pieces of different colors, symbolizing chess pieces, and a game chip selector, characterized in that the game chip selector consists of three polyhedra, one of which is made in the form of a regular hexagon, on the faces of which the symbols of all five pieces and pawns are depicted, the second - in the form of a regular octahedron, on the faces of which are four symbols of the “horse” and four symbols of the “elephant”, and the third - in the form of a regular hexahedron, on the edge of which four images of symbols of all figures, except for the "king", are applied.

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