CHESS PLAYING DEVICE Russian patent published in 1999 - IPC

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