US 12,226,706 B2
Apparatus and method for playing modified chess game with players of different proficiency levels
Arsenio P. Santos, Jr., Beaverton, OR (US)
Filed by Arsenio P. Santos, Jr., Beaverton, OR (US)
Filed on Oct. 3, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/958,798.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/251,780, filed on Oct. 4, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0107656 A1, Apr. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. A63F 3/02 (2006.01); A63F 13/798 (2014.01); A63F 13/822 (2014.01)
CPC A63F 3/02 (2013.01) [A63F 13/798 (2014.09); A63F 13/822 (2014.09)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for playing a modified chess game with players of different proficiency levels, the apparatus comprising:
an expandable game board configured to operate in at least one of a conventional mode and a powered mode;
two sets of playing pieces, visually distinguished from each other, configured to be mounted at the expandable game board;
a switching member in at least one playing piece of the two sets of playing pieces, the switching member of a playing piece configured to convert the playing piece to a powered playing piece in the powered mode; and
a power zone configured at least on a portion of the expandable game board to regulate movement of powered playing pieces based on a set of powered rules.