Watch as the opposing queen daintily steps backward, allowing your onrushing knight to reach the king and slaughter him. Instead, other pieces, whether friend or foe, politely step out of the way of the waddling, armor-clad piece, whose horse has apparently died of boredom, for it is nowhere to be seen. And it doesn’t actually jump over other pieces, either. Sadly, the knight is just as slow as every other piece. Surely, you’ll think, a knight is a speedy, leaping creature, as evidenced by its ability to jump over other pieces. As your king’s pawn slowly shuffles its way two spaces forward, you might being to wish you had gone with a little less conventional attack and opened with a knight move. Once you make your first move, however, your opinion will being to slide. Unfortunately, this strong point is made moot by the terrible, terrible mechanics of this game.Īt the start of the game, with all the pieces facing each other across the board, it looks quite nice, with a fair amount of detail, and even though the board is filled with thirty-two pieces, it is easy to distinguish them all. Looking back, it is nevertheless quite an impressive achievement considering the technology involved.

Thus, most players with experience will be able to win simply by playing a conservative game, even on the highest of the six difficulty levels. However, like most chess AI Battle Chess plays a strong tactical game, on the small scale, but tends to struggle with broader elements of strategy. The game assumes a basic understanding of chess not only is there no presentation of the rules at all, but even the Novice difficulty level is strong enough to take apart most real beginners. I’ve certainly played real people who were much worse. Still, it is able to accommodate and utilize all the rules of the game, and for most players will at least be a lively opponent. Of course, Battle Chess, being a Nintendo game, does not feature quite the level of sophistication that was built into the Deep Blue supercomputer. Only in recent years, we have seen a computer, Deep Blue, beat the greatest chess player on the planet in a tournament, proving without doubt that a well-programmed logical machine can match any human intellect, at least in the world of chess. Still, it is able to accommodate and utilize all the rules of the game, and for most players will at least b.' 'Only in recent years, we have seen a computer, Deep Blue, beat the greatest chess player on the planet in a tournament, proving without doubt that a well-programmed logical machine can match any human intellect, at least in the world of chess.

Battle chess board game