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But you must configure a 256 video card, AudioCD and Sound Card inside windows3x.
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You can Run the windows Version inside Win3.x in dosbox. The Dos Version crashed when a battle between the chess pieces begin. The District Court of California came into session and given that after two years of litigation, TopWare Interactive discharged their lawyer, resulting in Interplay winning the case by default.Battle Chess Enhanced CD Rom - Interplay (1992) However, Interplay filed and won an injunction for trademark infringement in 2010 and TopWare was prevented from releasing Battle vs Chess in the United States. Chess, was developed by TopWare Interactive for "just about every platform".
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Another clone, War Chess was released by XS Games for the PlayStation 2 in 2005, and was later ported to the PC by Big Fish Games and released online.

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Inspired gamesīattle Chess also inspired a number of similar games, such as Star Wars Chess, released by Software Toolworks in 1993, Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Chess Wars, developed by Capstone Software and released by IntraCorp also in 1993, and National Lampoon's Chess Maniac 5 Billion and 1. He also released a footage of the prototype of the game. On December 28, 2015, Brian Fargo revealed that he had started working on a second sequel of the game titled Battle Chess 3 in the late 1990s but the game was cancelled.
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The next year's Battle Chess 4000 spoofed science fiction movies and television series (such as a battle sequence involving the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey) and used a clay animation art style similar to ClayFighter. In 1996, Computer Gaming World ranked it as the 106th best game of all time for its "funny, elaborate animated sequences and spectacular special effects." SequelsĪ sequel titled Battle Chess II: Chinese Chess was released in 1991, based on xiangqi, commonly known as "Chinese chess". Interplay won "Best Graphics Achievement In A Non-Graphics Product" from Software Publishers Association (later renamed to Software and Information Industry Association) for Battle Chess. In a review of the 3DO version, Electronic Gaming Monthly stated, "If you are a chess fan, then you may want to check this title out." German game magazine ASM, however, criticized the weak chess AI. The Amiga version received favourable reviews from magazines due its comical battle sequences which were advanced (for the time) in terms of graphics, animation and sound. Come review, the producers, predictably, okayed everything but asked for the duck to be removed. To this end, one animator added a small duck around the queen piece, but made sure that the sprite would be easily removable. Battle Chess producer and Interplay's founder Brian Fargo expressed his fondness for the game in a 2006 interview, although he added that he did not think there would be much of an audience for it today.Īn apocryphal story of the development was the invention of "The Duck" (an example of Parkinson's law of triviality): The producers of the game were known to demand changes to the game, presumably to make their mark on the finished product. The game was featured in the 1992 film Knight Moves about a chess grandmaster who is accused of several murders. Developmentīattle Chess was the first title developed and published by Interplay Entertainment themselves after ending their relationship with Electronic Arts, besides Neuromancer.

The game has an opening library from over 30,000 moves (which were not available for the Commodore 64 and Apple II versions). Digitized sound is utilized in the DOS version for all battle sound effects and is played through the PC speaker, without the need for a sound card, using a technique akin to RealSound.īattle Chess could be played against a human opponent (by hotseat, or by null modem or over a local area network in some ports) or against the computer's artificial intelligence (AI). The game can be also played in a 2D version with no animations, and the Amiga CDTV version features a fully voiced introduction describing the movements of the pieces for the benefit of beginners. There are some pop-culture homages the knight versus knight animation references the black knight fight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and the king versus bishop fight pastiches the short battle between Indiana Jones and a swordsman in Raiders of the Lost Ark. The rook, for example, turns into a rock monster and kills a pawn by smashing his head. Since there are six types of pieces for each color, and a king cannot capture a king, there are 35 battle animations. Battle Chess follows the same rules as traditional chess the battles always play out so that the capturing piece defeats its target.
