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. Its remake, Battle Chess: Game of Kings, was released on Steam (software) on March 16, 2014. Battle Chess was critically acclaimed and commercially successful, resulting in two official follow-ups as well as several inspired games. In 1991, Battle Chess Enhanced was released by Interplay for the PC, featuring improved VGA graphics and a symphonic musical score that played off of the CD-ROM. It was originally developed and released by Interplay Entertainment for the Amiga in 1988 and subsequently on many other systems, including 3DO, Acorn Archimedes, Amiga CD32, Amiga CDTV, Apple IIGS, Apple IIe, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, FM Towns, NES, Mac OS, PC-98, Sharp X68000 and Windows 3.x. īattle Chess is a video game version of chess in which the chess pieces come to life and battle one another when capturing. This game can be played also in a version for NES. If you think that the game in your browser does not behave as it should, try to choose another online emulator from this table. For fullscreen press 'Right Alt' + 'Enter'.
Game is controlled by the same keys that are used to playing under MS DOS.
