PERIPHERAL DEVICE FOR PLAYING TABLETOP GAME WITH CONNECTION TO COMPUTER Russian patent published in 2016 - IPC A63F3/02 

FIELD: games.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to peripheral devices for playing chess, draughts and other types of games, subject to use of different colour and(or) game functionality figures on game planes with coordinate grids with wire or wireless connection to a computer, and can be used in electronic games with a computer, tournaments with logging results, implementing remote forms of training. Peripheral device comprises a game board with at least one game surface, broken into separate cells, and game figures with marks containing a unique identifier or digital code recorded in corresponding memory cells of the mark. In the game board housing there is one or several printed circuit boards, on which antennae are located in such a way that they are distributed under each cell, a microcontroller connected with a specialised microcircuit of polling the marks, a power supply element, a module of wireless communication with a computer or a server, and on the housing there is a panel with indicators of operation and ports to connect the charging device, removable mass storage devices, a computer, a tablet, a smartphone, a chess clock or other recorders together with the device switch-on button.

EFFECT: provides for expansion of functional capabilities of game devices due to wireless data exchange with the possibility of long-term autonomous operation without external power supply sources, fast polling figures, easy adaptation to variation of communication protocols, reduced time required for preparation of the equipment for tournaments with large number of participants, which reduces the cost of organising competitions, simplifies games arrangement over a network, including the one over the Internet, and improves entertaining of games played with this device.

7 cl, 3 dwg