Chess game apparatus

Claim 1

A chess type game for two players comprising a square board, said board being uniformly divided into eighty-one squares, each side of said board being nine squares long, and wherein the chessmen of each player consist of a king, nine pawns and eight major pieces, namely, two princes, two bishops, two knights and two rooks, each of said kings, pawns, bishops, knights and rooks having the same moves and strengths as the corresponding pieces in conventional chess, each of said princes having the same moves and strengths as the queens in conventional chess, the pieces of one player being disposed, at the beginning of each game, with the king of the player in the central square of the first row of one end of the board, the major pieces being disposed on said first row in symmetrical arrangement about said king, and the pawns being disposed in the second row at said end of said board, the pieces of the other player being disposed, in similar arrangement, at the end of the board opposing said end.