CHESS GAME USING SPECIALIZED DICE

摘要

A method of playing a game where two players use a checkered game board, three specialized dice, and traditional chess pieces. More specifically, the checkered game board can be a traditional eight-by-eight chessboard, or it can be an expanded ten-by-ten board. Additionally, the three specialized dice each display one traditional chess piece per side of the die. Therefore, each die will have one king, one queen, one rook, one knight, one bishop, and one pawn depicted on it. In its most basic sense, the game involves making movements each turn based on the depictions that show ‘up’ when the three dice are rolled.

主权项

1. A method of operating a computing device for playing a game comprising:
providing a computing device; providing a non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with instructions and executed by a processor to perform the steps of: causing at least one processor to execute a plurality of instructions stored in at least one memory device to operate with at least one display device to display a checkered game board with two sets of chess pieces, one on each side, and a plurality of specialized dice depicting six different chess pieces on each die's six sides; causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions stored in the at least one memory device to operate with at least one input device to receive a request from a first player during the first player's turn for a roll of the plurality of specialized dice; causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions stored in the at least one memory device to operate with at least one display device to display the plurality of specialized dice, each with one depicted chess piece facing upward, after the first player's roll; causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions stored in the at least one memory device to operate with the at least one input device to receive a request from the first player to move a chess piece on the checkered game board that corresponds to any one of the depicted chess pieces facing upward; causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions stored in the at least one memory device to operate with at least one display device to display the movement of the first player's chess piece on the checkered game board; causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions stored in the at least one memory device to operate with the at least one input device to receive a request from a second player during the second player's turn for a roll of the plurality of specialized dice; causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions stored in the at least one memory device to operate with at least one display device to display the plurality of specialized dice, each with one depicted chess piece facing upward, after the second player's roll; causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions stored in the at least one memory device to operate with the at least one input device to receive a request from the second player to move a chess piece on the checkered game board that corresponds to any one of the depicted chess pieces facing upward; causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions stored in the at least one memory device to operate with at least one display device to display the movement of the second player's chess piece on the checkered game board; causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions stored in the at least one memory device to permit a plurality of turns for the first and the second player, taken in alternate succession; causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions stored in the at least one memory device to determine whether the first or second player has won after the plurality of turns when either the first or second player is placed in checkmate, wherein checkmate is determined when a chess piece of the first or second player designated as king is threatened to be captured and there is no valid move to escape the threat; causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions stored in the at least one memory device to determine any awards to be provided to either player based on the determination of which player won; and causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions stored in the at least one memory device to cause any determined awards to be provided to the winning player.