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Title: Board games for playing draughts and chess
Claims: What is claimed is: 1. A game board for playing draughts and chess, said board comprising a hexagonal playing surface having marked thereon 163 discrete unit areas aligned in three intersecting mutually inclined sets of parallel lines with the unit areas being spaced apart from each other by equal distances to form a regular equilateral triangular array, each set of lines of unit areas being parallel to a respective pair of opposite sides of said hexagonal playing area, each side of said hexagonal playing area having six unit areas spaced apart therealong, a single unit area being omitted from each of the corners of said hexagonal playing area and the unit areas being arranged in three mutually distinguishable sets so that in each set the unit areas are separated from each other in each of said lines by two unit areas belonging one to each of the other sets, the unit areas of said playing surface arranged in a plurality of files, each file beginning with a unit area along one side of said playing surface and ending with a unit area at the side opposed to said one side, each file having end unit areas of the same distinguishable set of unit areas at opposed sides of said playing surface, there being a total of eight unit areas of the same distinguishable unit area set as said file end unit areas arranged along each file. 2. A game board as claimed in claim 1, in which said board is foldable for storage. 3. A game board as claimed in claim 2, in which said board is rectangular in shape. 4. A game board as claimed in claim 1, in which said sets of unit areas are distinguished from each other by design. 5. A game board as claimed in claim 1, in which said unit areas consist of circles and in which said sets of areas are distinguished from each other by color. 6. A game board according to claim 1 further comprising: said three mutually distinguishable sets of unit areas arranged in a plurality of ranks formed by lines of immediately adjacent unit areas parallel to the opposite sides of said board, wherein each rank along the sides of said board has an end unit area at opposite ends thereof with only the unit areas of two of said mutually distinguished sets being used at the rank end unit areas along the sides of said game board; and, a unit area of the third mutually distinguishable set not used at the ends of the ranks along the sides of said game board disposed at the geometric center of said playing surface. 7. A game board according to claim 6 wherein said unit areas at the ends of each rank along the sides of the game board are colored red and white, respectively, and the unit area at the geometric center of the playing surface is colored black. Other info: Inventors: Jameson, Michael J. Application Number: 946637 Filing Date: 1978-09-28 Publication_date: 1980-10-21 Assignee: Primary Class(es): 273/261 Other Classes: US Patent Ref:
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Primary Examiner: Pinkham, Richard C. Assistant Examiner: Moy, R. Carl Attorney: Oblon, Fisher, Spivak, McClelland & Maier |
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