Chess set

Claim 1

A portable chess game apparatus comprising a flexible playing board of reflective aluminized material, having a plurality of rows of alternating light and dark squares; a plurality of hollow cylindrical clear plastic playing pieces to be placed on the squares and progressively moved from one row of squares to another row of squares; said playing pieces having diameters such that a portion of said pieces are telescopically nestable in other portions of said pieces; the vertical height of some said pieces varying to reflect their relative point count values; said reflective aluminized material of said playing board adapted to reflect light upwardly through said clear plastic pieces so that their top edges appear to be lighted; and timing means to indicate the total playing time allotted each player including; an elongate stem; a pair of hollow square clear plastic boxes each partially filled with sand and each having a broad flat face perpendicularly secured to one of the opposite ends of said stem a wedge shaped member mounted centrally in each box and extending thereacross dividing each box into two relatively equal compartments; and a notch in the narrow edge of each of said wedge shaped members connecting the respective compartments in each of said boxes to alone permit the sand to flow from one compartment to the other to indicate a time interval, said wedges in said boxes pointing at right angles to each other so that when one box is positioned to permit sand to flow from one compartment thereof to the other the opposite box is positioned so no sand will flow therein.