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''Battle Chess'' is a Computer Game version of Chess released for the PC , Apple IIGS , Commodore 64 , Amiga , CD32 , Atari ST , Apple Macintosh , Acorn Archimedes and Nintendo Entertainment System in which the Chess Piece s came to life and battled one another when capturing. There were 35 animations, one for each possible combination of battle (thus there was no animation for the King-takes-King battle). The rook, for example, would turn into a Rock Monster and kill a pawn by crushing him. Introducing this new twist to a classic game, Battle Chess reached out to a new audience. The game itself was inspired by the 3D chess sequences from Star Wars and Future World , and helped launch Interplay as an independent computer game design house after it ended its relationship with Electronic Arts . In turn, ''Battle Chess'' spawned a horde of imitators, but none matched the humorous animations of artists Todd Camasta and Bruce Schlickbernd , and were never as successful. A sequel was later released based on the game of Xiangqi . )]] EXTERNAL LINK |
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