Attack Reflector: The Knight defeats the Queen by bouncing her transformation magic back at her with his shield.Same for a King attacking a Knight - the Knight catches the Cartoon Bomb the King bats at him, blinks at the player, then looks down when he realizes the fuse is burning out.The Pawn briefly looks at the player in response, as if to say: "What the hell?!" When a Queen attacks a Pawn, she uses her magic to make his spear vanish.It's arguably worst in the NES port, where it's so adamant on never losing any pieces that putting so much as an enemy pawn in position to be captured will cause the CPU to lock up while it tries to think of a way out of the predicament. Artificial Stupidity: As mentioned in the main blurb, the AI isn't the sharpest to ever appear in the chess game.Armor Is Useless: Knights are often on the receiving end of this - sword thrusts effortlessly penetrating their breastplates is a common result of battles in Game of Kings.Amusing Injuries / Bloody Hilarious: Contributes to the Black Comedy in Battle Chess and goes into downright slapstick territory in Chinese Chess.Agony of the Feet: In the original Pawn vs Pawn.In Battle Chess, it transforms into a rock monster when moving and fighting. Adaptational Badass: The Rook, in the original board game, is a watchtower of some kind.A remake, Battle Chess: Game of Kings was released on Steam in 2015. Of course, you can also play a game of Wizard’s Chess if that’s your thing instead.It had sequels: Battle Chess 4000, which is normal chess but with sci-fi characters used as chess pieces, and Battle Chess II: Chinese Chess, based on the Chinese Chess board game.
Apparently even Mortal Kombat had an in-game called Chess Kombat, first introduced in Mortal Kombat Deception. Just a few of them that are worth mentioning are Watch Dogs, Grand Theft Auto 5 and Minecraft. Chess Minigames in Other Gamesīattle Chess was also likely the inspiration behind programmers and game developers adding chess as a minigame within other games. Chess (2011) – all of which likely took their original inspiration from a game of Battle Chess. To name just a few of them, there was Star Wars Chess (1993), Combat Chess (1997) and Battle vs. The influence, of course, took: There have been plenty of chess game clones that aimed to follow the same idea as Battle Chess featuring graphic, interactive game-play. In 2015, they finally released Battle Chess: Game of Kings as a game to complete the franchise – and in 2016, the company sold off most of their intellectual properties. It took a considerable long time for Interplay to bring anything else to the chess world. The same year they also released an Enhanced CD-ROM cut of the original Battle Chess which contained some updated graphics. In 1992, they released another sequel called Battle Chess 4000 that put a futuristic spin on the game. In 1990, Interplay released a sequel called Battle Chess II: Chinese Chess. The game was filled with animations of chess pieces in battle, which added a completely new dimension to chess (before anyone came up with three-level-chess btw– yes, that’s a thing). The first edition of Battle Chess was released in 1988 by the game company Interplay – which, if you’re a gamer, you might also remember from other titles like Baldur’s Gate. Battle Chess opened up completely new frontiers for chess games, and while some reviewers noted that the game’s AI could have used some work, most were really impressed with the gameplay. It’s a classic as far as classics go, and it started an entire genre of chess games in response – and got a lot of people into at least a casual game of chess.
Now, if you found yourself at a computer in the 80s and 90s as a chess fan, you will remember playing at least one game of Battle Chess.
By Alex J Coyne © Gifts for Card Players Chess is an ancient war-game of strategy and wits one which people have been playing for thousands of years.
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