The Move menu lets you force a move, go back a move (handy for cheating!!), replay the game, or get the computer to suggest a possible move for you. This will allow you to preposition pieces onto the board before you start playing.

In the Disk menu you may load and save games, start a new game and quit the program, much as you would expect, you may also select 'Setup Board'. Pressing the right-button (when it is your move) reveals four menu selections at the top of the screen: Disk, Move, Settings and Level. Press the left-button again and the chosen piece will move to the selected square. If the move is legal the border of this square will now flash. Press the left-button to select the piece and reposition the pointer over the square that you wish to move to. If it is capable of moving, the border of the square that it is standing on will flash. To move a piece you simply position the finger-shaped pointer over it. When you've got it right, the game commences.Д«attle Chess pieces are red and blue, rather than black and white and all movement is mouse-controlled. Once the game has loaded, you are requested to enter into the computer a randomly selected move from one of the lists. These lists not only provide an insight into how a master plays, but also serve as protection for the game. The games vary from one played on the San Diego Freeway between Zimmer and Thaimann, sometime this year, right back to one played in London between Labourdonnias and MacDonnell in 1834!! Supplied within the very thorough manual, is a complete list of moves made in twenty games played between chess masters. (More about that later.)Д«attle Chess is supplied on a single disk and runs equally well on all Amigas, although I got a 'not enough memory' error on the 500 if I left the external drive connected. Well, that's until now! Form Electronic Arts comes 'BATTLE CHESS', and apart from being one of the most playable games of chess I've ever seen on any computer, it is definitely the most entertaining. Many other chess games have come and gone since, but none have ever come up to its standard.

Since then, if ever I have wanted to play, it has been this program that I have used. When I purchased my first Commodore, along with all the bits in the box, I bought a copy of the 'ultimate' chess game at that time, called 'Colossus 4 Chess'. For as long as I care to remember, I have always had access to a chess-board of some sort or another and, although I've never become a very proficient player, I still enjoy a game now and then.

Amiga battle chess