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''Battle Chess'' is a video game version of chess in which the chess pieces come to life and battle one another when capturing. 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. In 1991, ''Battle Chess Enhanced'' was released by Interplay for the PC, featuring improved VGA graphics and a symphonic musical score that played from the CD-ROM. ''Battle Chess'' was critically acclaimed and commercially successful, resulting in two official follow-ups as well as several inspired games. Its remake, ''Battle Chess: Game of Kings'', was released on Steam on March 16, 2014. == Gameplay == Since there are six types of pieces for each color, and a king cannot capture a king, there are 35 battle animations. The rook, for example, turns into a rock monster and kills a pawn by smashing his head. 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 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. 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. ''Battle 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 has an opening library from over 30,000 moves (which were not available for the Commodore 64 and Apple II versions). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Battle Chess」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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