Title: Board games for playing draughts and chess

Abstract: Apparatus for playing a game which apparatus comprises a playing surface having marked thereon a plurality of unit areas aligned in three intersecting mutually inclined sets of parallel lines to form a triangular lattice array with the unit areas being spaced apart from each other, in which a first set of unit areas constituted by unit areas separated from each other by two unit areas in each of said lines is distinguished from the remaining unit areas, and at least two distinguishable sets of playing pieces each adapted to be moved over the playing surface from one unit area to another.

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Inventors: Jameson, Michael J.

Application Number: 946637
Filing Date: 1978-09-28
Publication_date: 1980-10-21
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Primary Class(es): 273/261
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US Patent Ref:

1704819	Mar, 1929	Beaman	273/261.
3843130	Oct, 1974	Whitney	273/261.
3963242	Jun, 1976	Treugut	273/261.
3998464	Dec, 1976	Poturalski	273/261.
4045030	Aug, 1977	Strozewski	273/261.

Other Refs: 5578306165721001122

Dec, 1943	GB
Mar, 1949	GB
Aug, 1965	GB

Primary Examiner: Pinkham, Richard C.
Assistant Examiner: Moy, R. Carl
Attorney: Oblon, Fisher, Spivak, McClelland & Maier