# Anyone play computer chess?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-play-computer-chess/804055>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [December 9, 2017, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-play-computer-chess/804055 "2017-12-09T23:46:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-play-computer-chess/804055/21 "2017-12-14T23:38:28Z")

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> [@Clothahump](#):
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> I used to have Battle Chess back in the DOS days. Great game, great graphics. Pieces would fight when you made a capture. Great game. Wish I could find it in a version that would run on Win10, but no joy so far.

I loved that game as well. As a kid, I tried to setup every piece capturing every other one to see all the animations.

[I now see they are all here. I wish we had this when I was a kid.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSnAiXKU7h8)

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**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2017, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-play-computer-chess/804055/22 "2017-12-30T01:08:45Z")

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> [@Clothahump](#):
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> I used to have Battle Chess back in the DOS days. Great game, great graphics. Pieces would fight when you made a capture. Great game. Wish I could find it in a version that would run on Win10, but no joy so far.

I remember that. If you managed to take the queen with a pawn, the battle was a bit R rated (pawn stole her robe). The rooks where like a castle tower that moved stone block by block.

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