Battle Chess

Battle Chess is a video game version of chess with 2.5D graphics and fighting animations that show the result of one piece moving to the square of another. It was developed and released by Interplay Entertainment for the Amiga in 1988 and ported to many other systems including the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, Acorn Archimedes, Amiga CD32, Amiga CDTV, Apple IIGS, Apple II, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS , FM Towns, Nintendo Entertainment System, MacOS, PC-98, X68000 and Microsoft Windows. In 1991, Battle Chess Enhanced was released by Interplay for IBM PC compatible devices and Macintosh with enhanced VGA graphics and a symphonic music score played from the CD-ROM.

Battle Chess was critically acclaimed and commercially successful, resulting in two official sequels and several inspired games.