Windows 3.x

Battle Chess

Trivia

If a bishop attacks the king, the bishop will make a big show and swing his staff around, and then the king will simply pull out a gun and shoot him, ending the fight. This is a spoof of a famous scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark, where Indy takes out a sword wielding Arab by pulling out a gun and simply shooting him.

The game actually features full frontal nudity! In some circumstances where Rook gets the King in checkmate, as the King trembles his robe falls off, leaving him standing starkers, before he runs off in embarrassment (of course, being low-res EGA, there’s not a lot to see even if you *did* want to look!)

This was the one of two of the first games Interplay published under its own name (the other being Neuromancer).

There is a movie called "Knight Moves" (1992) with Christopher Lambert in a main role. However, he plays some chessmaster, and the plot is around catching some chess-style killer. In one of the opening scenes (maybe 20 mins from the start), while detectives are trying to solve the crime, Christopher Lambert shouts out loud as he was playing Battle Chess. I believe it was the animation peon agains knight he was watching.

Contributed by MAT (35327) on Jul 31, 2000.

This game is a member of Computer Gaming World Magazine's Hall of Fame.

The scene of a Knight attacking a Knight depicts a classic scene from Monty Python's "Quest for the Holy Grail": One by one, all limbs are severed, each time provoking the victim into the same kind of responsive actions the Black Knight made in the aforementioned movie.