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.
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