Abstract: A new chess game device and method for playing, for example, modified chess for four players. The novel chess game device includes a playing board of 260 squares using a set of twenty playing pieces consisting of 10 pawns and 10 other pieces per player for two, three or four players. Each set of playing pieces is colored in a distinct, separate color so that a different color is used to identify the playing pieces of each participant. The playing board is colored in the same four colors as the playing pieces in an alternating color fashion (FIG. 1). The set of playing pieces of the novel chess game device includes all of the conventional chess pieces and two additional pieces called the Prime Minister (FIG. 2) and the Squire (FIG. 3) respectively.