US611450A

US611450A - Tripartite game-board

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Publication number: US611450A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1898-09-27
Anticipated expiration: 1915-09-27

Description

N0. 6Il,450. Patented Sept. 27, I898.

a. F. GRUVERQ THIPABTITE GAME BOARD.

(Application filed Mar. 3 8.,

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TRIPARTITII GAME-BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 611,450, dated September 27, 189 8.

Application filed March 3, 1898. Serial No. 672,860. (No model.)

will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and tention being called to drawing,

use the same, atthe accompanying with the reference-letters marked thereon, which forms a part of this specification.

This invention relates to games of the kind where a number of markers or checkers are moved upon a board in accordance with certain established rules. These latter are based upon certain lines, figures, subdivisions, &c., arranged upon the board and govern the moves of the checkers to and from and between the parts mentioned.

My invention relates particularly to the game-board and to the provision of certain lines, figures, fields, and subdivisions there on, the leading feature of which is an arrangement whereby three players are enabled to play at the same time.

In the following specification and particularly pointed out in the claims is found a full description of the invention and its manner of use and arrangement, which latter is also illustrated in the accompanying drawing, which shows a plan View of the game-board.

The-shape of the board is substantially that of a triangle with the corners removed. It contains three sections a, one for each'player, and a center section 6, connecting all three sections a, and by moving over which one player is enabled to enter ,either one of the two sections of his opponents. These main sections are again subdivided to form smaller parts, figures, or fields upon which the check? ers, one of which is shown at o, are placed and between which they are manipulated by being moved from one to the other. By preference sections (1. are subdivided like a checker-board, the alternate squares being colored differently, as indicated in lines, the colors being any suitable combination as, for instance, gold or silver, or otherwise.

A suitable number of checkers c are usedas, for instance, eleven-which are placed on the darker fields of the two" outer rows, the outermost or longer one of which is designatedby cl and may be termed the baseline of each section. In general the rules of checkers may govern, the general aim of a player being to advance his checkers with as little loss as possible over the center field into either one or the two fields of his adversaries until he reaches the base-lineof a section, when he obtains what is termed a F king, which is formed by two superposed checkers and the advantage of which is a greater scope as to moves and power to take away the ad- Versarys checkers. The difficult feature of the gameconsists of moving through the cen ter section, whichcan only be entered over a field c, which I call entrance. From here to gain one of the entrances to the opponents sections he may move to right or left over one of the circular fields f or to and over the center field g. In place of moving in this manner the advance may be accomplished by jumps -that is, by jumping over an opposing checker in front to anempty field behind, in case there be one, the jumped checker being in such case taken. Thus, for instance, a checker mayenter the center section by a jump onto entrance-field e or by a jump from either one of the squares in the last row and over entrance-field e onto one of the fields f, provided such latter be empty and a checker occupies e, in which case this latter is confiscated by the one jumping it. For the moves and jumpswithin the central section I sug gest the following rules: A checker may move or jump all over in this section from field to field and also out of it, but in. this latter case only in the direction of either one of the adversarys sections and never back to the sec tion from whence it came, unless it be a king. Thus a jump out'may be made from one of fields 6, but not from one of the fields f, or vice versa, nor shall the center field g be jumped from one of the fields f. These rules of course are subject to modifications as may be determined by the players. The board may also be used by only two players, in which case the third and unused section is simply barred to either one.

The unused parts it between the sections a, as well as all spaces between fields in the center section b and the border is, surrounding the whole, may be used in a suitable manner to ornament and embellish the game-board. I do this in this case by using colors, and particularly red, white, and blue, which I arrange alternately, as shown, the blank spaces indicating white, those filled with dotted lines red, and the ones filled with broken lines blue.

Having described my invention, I claim as new- 1. A game to be used in connection with markers having the three sections a, a, a, divided in squares, the section b, which connects