Appeal No. 98-1017
Application 08/585,472
§ 1.196(b).
The invention relates to a method of playing a board game “which combines the skill features of
chess with the excitement of a game simulating military maneuvers” (specification, page 1). Claim 1 is
illustrative and reads as follows:
1. A method of playing a board game, the board game having a playing board and a playing
area comprising the steps of;
dividing said playing area into a plurality of squares of alternating color;
placing a plurality of playing pieces initially in predetermined ones of said squares for a first and
second player, the game's pieces of said first and second player comprising four separate categories,
the first category comprising one playing piece, the second category comprising three playing pieces,
the third category comprising four playing pieces and the fourth category comprising four playing
pieces, the position of said pieces for said first and second player being initially a mirror image;
moving the pieces of said first and second player in a predetermined sequence, more than one
piece being movable by each player in a turn of play, a first piece of said first player occupying a first
square of said playing board throughout the game, a second piece of said second player occupying a
second square of said playing board throughout the game; and
operating a device to determine the number of total squares the pieces are to be moved in each
turn of play, said first player winning the game if one of that player's pieces occupies said second square
before one of said other player's pieces occupies said first square.
The references relied upon by the examiner as evidence of obviousness are:
Dozorsky 4,982,965 Jan. 8, 1991
Andre 904,669 Nov. 13, 1945
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