Battle Chess under Virtual PC

Released in 1988, Battle Chess is probably one of the most notorious computer chess games ever. This game managed to take the purely intellectual game of chess and make it immensely more amusing and appealing to the general populace. 

How did it do this? Simple - in Battle Chess each of the board pieces are animated characters. As you move your pieces you get to see them walk, run or lumber into place. 

But the best part is when you take your opponents piece you get to watch the pieces duel - with the aggressor always winning. Some of the battles are fairly straight forward (when a Knight takes a pawn - it is a simple sword fight) while other battles range from surprising (like when your King produces a golden pistol to shoot his opponent, or your rook swallows the opponents’ queen whole) to hilarious (like the reenactment of the 'black knight' scene from Monty Python's quest from the holy grail - when a knight battles another night).

Battle Chess runs perfectly under Virtual PC:

        

Cheers,
Ben

Comments

• Anonymous
  May 25, 2006
  Hi Ben,
  
  Are there any VPC 2004 virtual machine additions available which are optimized for Longhorn/Vista Beta 2(Build 5384) ?
  
  Regards,
  
  Paul
• Anonymous
  May 25, 2006
  I think there are for Virtual Server... I recall him saying they would work under Virtual PC as well?  I'm not sure.
• Anonymous
  May 30, 2006
  Not yet - but we are working on them.
  
  Cheers,
  Ben
• Anonymous
  June 20, 2006
  Awesome, that's good to know. I was going to try BC out under DOSBox (it's abandonware I believe but I also have it on the original CD). Maybe I'll use Virtual PC for all my vintage PC game sessions from now on. Monolith's Blood runs a tad slow in DOSBox, maybe it'll fare better in Virtual PC.
• Anonymous
  June 23, 2006
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