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...that Charles Goodyear performed some of his experiments on rubber while in debtor's prison? He was there so often he referred to it as his "hotel". Chronically in debt because of poor business sense and ill health, Goodyear depended on the generosity of friends and family. Even after he unlocked the secret to vulcanizing rubber, he was unable to improve his financial situation. When he died, his estate was $200,000 in debt.
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| 20100022289 | DETERMINATION OF GAME CHARACTERISTICS FOR A GAME OF SKILL A method and associated system for automatically determining game characteristics for a game of skill, the method comprising: (a) determining or accepting a first numerical rating associated with said first participant; (b) determining or accepting a further numerical r... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20090270183 | GAME PERFORMANCE SYSTEMS AND METHODS Game performance systems and methods are provided. The game performance system includes a display unit, an image capture unit, and a processing unit. The display unit displays at least a board corresponding to a board game, wherein at least one game accessory is placed ... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090227313 | Determining Relative Skills of Players There is a desire to provide a way to determine relative skills of players of games such as computer games, chess, tennis and any other suitable type of game. Our earlier Bayesian Scoring system is implemented in Xbox Live (trade mark) and is currently commercially avai... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090143131 | GAMING MACHINE ARRANGING SCATTER SYMBOL AND SPECIFIC AREA IN ARRANGEMENT AREA AND PLAYING METHOD THEREOF In a bonus game, one or more scatter symbols 180 and zero or more specific areas 190 are displayed (arranged) in display windows 151 to 155 forming a matrix shape and a prize is awarded according to the one or more scatter symbols 180 ... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090017889 | CHESS PLAYING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CARRYING OUT SAID METHOD The invention relates to chess game playing method, in particular to a novel type of a chess game between two pairs of players. The inventive chess game playing device comprises at least two playing fields (7) which are divided into squares of two alternating col... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20080300035 | Clear Path Electronic Game A clear path electronic game is described in which one or more vessels are placed adjacent a mines of various sizes on rows of a grid. The game player then activates one mine at a maximum size to shoot a projectile at another mine. The mine shooting the projectile is re... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080227515 | Recursive Team-oriented Chess-like Game for Entertainment and Training This invention is a networked board game apparatus and method of playing a customized game for 2 or more players on recursively organized boards, and a method for applying the aforementioned to leadership, communications, and team building education, and further to appl... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080214260 | Board game system utilizing a robot arm A board game system comprises a touch screen, a computing device and a robot arm. The computing device comprises a processor and a memory. At least one type of board game program is stored in the memory so that the processor can execute the board game program present a ... | 09/04/2008 |
| 20080197569 | Inverse Chess This invention describes a game of inverse chess, with a pre-identified start position, and end position and arbitered moves chosen amongst a set of possible moves, played between two opponents on a chess board. This differs from normal chess in that it is played backwa... | 08/21/2008 |
| 20080161086 | Pawn With Triggerable Sub Parts A pawn (10) for use on a board (21) is provided. The pawn (10) is arranged to provide a trigger signal upon a touch of a triggerable part of the pawn (10) by a user, and comprises communication means for communicating the trigger signal to a ... | 07/03/2008 |
| 20080136100 | BOARD GAME The invention relates to a game apparatus and a corresponding method, where the game apparatus comprises a game board (1, 4) comprising a plurality of rows (R) and a plurality of columns (CO), said rows and columns defining fields (2) on said game board (<... | 06/12/2008 |
| 20070184886 | Video based strategic board game A video game and related game playing method is described herein. The video game is played on an overall playing field that includes a plurality of rotating square-shaped fields, each having a grid of playing positions. The objective of the game is to be the first to cr... | 08/09/2007 |
| 20070117602 | Game mobile element, such as a game piece, and related game system The invention concerns an element such as a game piece (10) or the like designed to be placed on a game board, the game being electronically controlled. The invention is characterized in that it comprises means (100, 102) for wirelessly receiving game cont... | 05/24/2007 |
| 20070037622 | Simultaneous move chess system and method A system and method of playing of a game of simultaneous move chess involve receiving intended move commands from at least two players, determining the results of the intended move commands after intended move commands are received for all players in the game. The deter... | 02/15/2007 |
| 20070013131 | Chess-like game involving hidden information A chess-like game involves hidden information. The information provided to a player of the game includes positions and types of game pieces on a) squares that are occupied by game pieces belonging to the player and squares that are diagonally adjacent thereto, b) square... | 01/18/2007 |
| 20060240886 | Omnipotent Opponent Traditionally, a computer chess program will take the current state of the board (the position of the pieces in play) and using a database of moves, it will select what it feels is the best move. This is how every computer chess program works. The Omnipotent Opponent us... | 10/26/2006 |
| 20060217168 | Logical board game and game of chance on 6X6 and 5X7 boards The present invention is directed to a logical board game having a rectangular playing area made up of primary playing fields, the primary playing fields being congruent squares that are in contact with the adjacent primary playing fields on at least two of their sides;... | 09/28/2006 |
| 20060211464 | System and devices for real-time electronic chess move recording, viewing and storage A hand-held, portable apparatus for recording chess moves operable between a recording mode and at least one other mode is described. The apparatus is adapted to uniquely identifying a user and includes an interface for electronically entering into a memory a chess move... | 09/21/2006 |
