Star Wars Chess

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Star Wars Chess is a 1993 chess-playing video game developed by The Software Toolworks, based on the Star Wars film franchise and published by Mindscape for DOS, Sega CD and Windows 3.x. A 3DO Interactive Multiplayer version was planned but never released. The game is heavily inspired by Battle Chess , a popular PC chess game of the era. The characters appear in the places of normal chessmen on an isometric view of a Star-Wars-themed chessboard, with the black pieces portrayed by 'The Dark Side' (Empire-affiliated and antagonistic characters) and the white pieces portrayed by 'The Rebel Force' (Rebellion-affiliated characters.) Star Wars Chess (DOS) The rules of normal chess apply. When one piece captures another in a chess move, the screen fades to a brief animated battle in which the capturing piece vanquishes the captured one, in an over-the-top cartoonishly-animated style. The game can also be played in standard computer-chess mode, with normal chessmen icons on a 2D board, without the battle animations. The chess pieces are represented as follows: Kings - Luke Skywalker and Emperor Palpatine Queens - Princess Leia and Darth Vader Bishops - C-3PO and Boba Fett (Chewbacca sets Boba Fett on fire) Knights - Chewbacca and Tusken raider Rooks - Yoda and AT-ST Pawns - R2-D2 and stormtrooper Computer Gaming World concluded that T2 Chess Wars and Star Wars Chess 'are examples of marketing at its best (or worst, depending on your point of view)'. Mega Magazine giving Star Wars Chess a 60 percent rating stating “The chances are that if you take your chess at all seriously, you wouldn’t really enjoy this.” In 1996, Computer Gaming World declared Star Wars Chess the 49th-worst computer game ever released stating: “Proof that there really is no intelligent life (or AI) even in a galaxy far, far away”. GamePro magazine however praised the game's action scenes, sound, detailed animation and stating 'Chess purists and Star Wars purists alike will enjoy this one.