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5582410Multi-player chess game
... playing spaces are arranged forming the playing surface substantially in the same shape as each polygonal space. 3. The method of playing chess with three or more players as in claim 1 wherein the relationship of polygonal space sides to number ... 		12/10/1996
6170826Three person chess game and method of play
... adapted by the skilled practitioner to achieve the same results. Octagons, marked circles, or any variety of polygon, properly marked, could be used. It should be emphasized at the outset that the alternate sides of eight and nine spaces are ... 		01/09/2001
4095801Chessmen contained by chess board or a cube container
... 135.degree. interior angles with not more than 5 sides; said cross section of said 4 knights being a 6 sided L shaped polygon, the shapes of said cross sections of said 2 queens, 4 castles, 4 bishops and 4 knights being indicative of the direction these ... 		06/20/1978
3963242Chess game for three people
... boards for three people and more particularly to chess games with symmetrical boards and corresponding triangular or polygonal fields. BACKGROUND Three-man chess boards are known which allow temporary participation of three instead of two parties. One of ... 		06/15/1976
5908193Game board for chess, checkers, and the like
... . German Patent 2,406,462 consists of a chess game for three persons having a board with triangular or polygonal zones, and a number of usual chess pieces per player. Each of the players have at least one additional piece at their disposal. ... 		06/01/1999
20050179203Multiplayer chess apparatus and method of play
... .com/boardrules.dir/chesh- ir.html), and Shrink Chess (http://www.chessvariants.com/boardrules.dir/sh- rink ... features of our game apparatus. [0037] Our chess board shape is a six-sided polygon with alternating sides of six or seven spaces. There ... 		08/18/2005
5511793Composite chess game and method
... 4,856,789, Aug. 15, 1989, to Richard Carlson, discloses a chess type game for opposing two man teams, each team ... having a vertical square notch in each side, pawns are short four sided polygons without vertical notches, queens are eight sided ... 		04/30/1996
4229008Board games for playing draughts and chess
... , the playing surface is provided on a face of a board which can be foldable for storage. Usually, the board will be polygonal such as rectangular, (including square) or hexagonal but the playing surface (i.e. area occupied by the unit areas) can be of a ... 		10/21/1980
4754979Polygons game
... Ea. 1604 Color at 50 Ea. 160 ##STR2## ______________________________________ Recommended maximum chip density of 40% The games of polygons can be played, as defined in some degree of particulaity, heretofore, with regard to use of rigid boards, rigid or ... 		07/05/1988
6260847Oblique chessboard
... players play opposite each other. The difficulty manifests itself whenever players attempt to assess diagonal chess piece movements. FIG. 7 is a polygon chessboard 12 similar to FIG. 6 with unequally spaced lines 13 or parallelograms. Like FIG. 6 ... 		07/17/2001
5209488Three player chess-like game
... board member, said peripheral playing area being divided into a plurality of playing positions each of which consists of a four-sided polygon; and three flat rectangular shaped board members each being aligned with and adjoining one of said three ... 		05/11/1993
4780273Nuclear reactor fuel assembly
... and a spacer having grid mesh openings for receiving a rod in each, the openings being positioned closely together like positions on a chess board in rows and columns disposed at right angles to each other, the spacer being formed of two mutually parallel ... 		10/25/1988
4735769Nuclear reactor fuel assembly
... being positioned like positions of the same color in rows and columns disposed at right angles to each other on a chess board leaving a free intermediate position between each two occupied positions, the main sleeves dividing the grid ... 		04/05/1988
5566284Apparatus and method for mip-map generation using low-pass filtering based on resolution ratio
... image. The texture size calculator 90 calculates the resolution of the MIP-map image corresponding to the size of the polygon that is to be displayed. In addition, the texture size calculator 90 calculates the resolution ratio, i.e., the ... 		10/15/1996
20090211496Portable entertainment system
... 20060101 A47B003/12; A47B 3/14 20060101 A47B003/14 Claims 1. A portable entertainment system comprising:a collapsible polygonal shape table having a frame and an insert;the insert being dissected into two substantially equal half sections;the ... 		08/27/2009
6320595Graphic image generation and coding
... word may also include an indicator as to whether the respective object is to be reproduced as outline or to be filled in: where the object is a polygon, following the first data word, the following further words may suitably specify in ... 		11/20/2001
6431547Game using playing pieces
... of these playing pieces selected from a set of at least three colors. The game also has a plurality of flat polygonal scoring pieces having edges, the colors of the scoring pieces being selected from a set of at least three colors as well. ... 		08/13/2002
5040928Facings for earthworks
... of the individual frame side-members. The frames are advantageously constructed from uniform members comprising the sides of the polygonal shape required. This provides the advantage of simplicity of production and transport. The frames will ... 		08/20/1991
7140612Cubic assembly puzzle and support structure
... of a five-unit by five-unit square with a one-unit square removed from each of the four corners, thereby forming a polygonal plus shape; the one-unit by one-unit by three-unit tower is located on the central square of the bottom member. A solution is ... 		11/28/2006
5868390Game board and method of manufacture
... A front panel and back panel form the foundation of the game board, the panels being of a complementary generally polygonal profile with a portion of the periphery of the panels being beveled to form a plurality of keys when mated. A number ... 		02/09/1999
7206260Interval timer
... interval timer 10 utilizes a housing 12. The housing 12 is shown to be basically in the shape of a box that being polygonal shaped. However, it is considered to be within the scope of this invention that the housing 12 could comprise other shapes, such ... 		04/17/2007
20060033272Cubic assembly puzzle and support structure
... is attached a circumferential side wall, two-units in height, as shown in FIG. 2A. The non-rectangular shape of the polygon described by the side wall is formed from a six-unit by six-unit square from which six-unit squares have been removed ... 		02/16/2006
4324406Board game method
... wide variety of board games have been developed for use on boards like checker boards such as the well-known games of checkers, chess, polygon and the like, and in these known games scoring is normally accomplished by capturing opposing pieces or the like. ... 		04/13/1982
6842178Animated graphic image generation and coding
... an object-component technique wherein images are composed from a limited set of component types, particularly points and polygons. An initial frame is defined as a list of objects to be displayed. Subsequent frames are encoded as a list of ... 		01/11/2005
7548241Determining a node path through a node graph
... ) 23:107-116 (1989). cited by other .Sousa, M., et al., "Computer-Generated Graphite Pencil Rendering of 3-D Polygonal Models", Eurographics'99, 18(3):C1950C207 (1999). cited by other .Stam, J., "Exact Evaluation of Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces at ... 		06/16/2009
6618830System and method for pruning a bridging diagnostic list
... data associated with the circuit and wherein the pruning module creates the pruned diagnostic list by applying polygon overlays in response to the adjacency algorithm to the nets of the circuit associated with the plurality of potential bridging faults in ... 		09/09/2003
6827349Billiard table
... 1 are arranged into hexagon layer by layer, this makes the area of the chess table increased by 1/3 than that of a hexangular table. 4. The outer periphery of the enclosure is a circle or a polygon which has more than six sides, this facilitates the ... 		12/07/2004
5786822Method and apparatus for mapping texture on an object displayed at a varying view angle from an observer
... the vertexes. The texture data is accessed from the memory by using the coordinate positions including the vertexes of the polygon thus determined, and the texture data is combined with the corresponding brilliance values determined in the ... 		07/28/1998
7063320Portable multimode shuffleboard game apparatus, exercise and strength measurement method
... wall surface of said frame. 16. A game board for slidably supporting playing disks, said game board comprising; a. a polygonal ring-shaped frame having upper and lower surfaces, and an inner peripheral surface disposed perpendicularly to said upper and ... 		06/20/2006
7008581Ornamental article and manufacturing method thereof
... ornament as described above can be made economically. However, if the ornament is made to have an irregular or polygonal shape, the surface of the ornament can not be patterned by the roller. For this reason, the sides of the irregular or ... 		03/07/2006
5325578Apparatus and method for automatically installing clamps
... . Additionally, the separator device 100 need not be in the form of a square drum but may be of some other polygonal shape. Furthermore, the number of gripping mechanisms can be varied, for example, with one gripping mechanism in each corner ... 		07/05/1994
20060125177Educational game and devices for playing it
... said applies to the corresponding piece as well. [0036] The board may have cells that are not squares but polygons or have other shapes, e.g. with curved sides. It will suffice that the cells be arranged in rows in two different, preferably ... 		06/15/2006
6726206Turtledice island board game
... Triangular and square plan outlines are also contemplated in addition to the hexagonal exemplary configuration. Other regular polygonal outlines, such as octagons are also possible, preferably with provision for overlapping of array elements, if necessary ... 		04/27/2004
20090278309THREE-DIMENSIONAL GAME AND METHOD OF PLAYING THE SAME
... from one another. Agglomerates, such as, cells, columns, rows, sheets, layers, and geometric subunits of a polygon can be attached and/or detached from the gaming unit. That is, the gaming unit can be configured and/or re-configured to have ... 		11/12/2009
7148899Texture mapping 3D objects
... three axes, x, y and z. If the 3D object is to be displayed in wire-frame form, only the edge lines that form the polygons in the model are rendered, thus generating a skeleton-like image of the object. For example, the model of an X-29 aircraft shown in ... 		12/12/2006
20060087505Texture mapping 3D objects
... of the marker within the texture region causes a corresponding change in the mapping between the coordinates of the polygon of the 3D graphic object and the corresponding texture coordinates of the texture map, wherein each texture ... 		04/27/2006
4025076Geometric game pieces
... central portion of each said half; and said two regular polygons being equilateral triangles, their joinder forming a rhomb. Description BACKGROUND Table and board games, such as chess, checkers, dominoes, and Go, are of considerable antiquity. Game ... 		05/24/1977
4953870Tossable strategy-type game with tri-dimensional playing surface
... playing pieces are associated with only the first surface areas. Preferably, the first surface areas have a polygonal configuration defining a plurality of vertices with each vertex of any given first surface area contacting the vertex ... 		09/04/1990
6445442Projection-microlithographic device
... a plurality of rectangular fields and/or fields in the form of parallelograms assembled in the manner of a polygon. 9. The projection-microlithographic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the fields are delimited by two parallel lines ... 		09/03/2002
20060208047Container with flyer disc lid
... the group consisting of triangular, rectangular, square, pentagonal, hexagonal, septagonal, octagonal, nonagonal, decagonal and polygonal; at least one light or piece of light material on the disc body; a piece of material larger than the ... 		09/21/2006
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