a pair of knights 22 and a pair of rooks 24 the royalty row 16 is aligned along the north edge of the center board in a customary fashion pawns 26 are in the north pawn row 28 located on the checkerboard 12 adjacent to royalty row 16 and to this point the setup of the chessmen on the checkerboard 12 is the same as in a conventional chess game on the south side the second player of the chess like game 10 is provided with six horsemen figures including a death horseman 30 disposed in the second space of the row 31 along the south edge of the board while a war horseman 32 is disposed in the space immediately adjacent thereto a plague horseman 34 is disposed in row 33 immediately adjacent to the row 31 and in front of the death horseman 30 a fire horseman 36 is located in the second space of row 31 while a vanity horseman 38 is positioned immediately adjacent to the fire horseman 36 while a famine horseman 40 is positioned in row 33 immediately in front of the fire horseman 36 the subset of eight royalty figures the subset of eight pawn figures and the subset of the six horsemen figures comprise the set of pieces necessary to play the inventive game and are illustrated in fig1 in the initial game setup ready for use by the two players that is the north and south players the central theme of applicant.