Talk:Battle Chess

message: I've seen bits and pieces that say Battlechess was being ported to that Atari Jaguar. Might be something to research and confirm.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.81.94.75 (talk) 23:39, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Someone did, I see. Is it actually that notable? Does it really need that number of references?? "Never before in the field of WP has something so trivial been given so many references.." Lovingboth (talk) 07:58, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Atari Jaguar

message: I noted that the reference to FutureWorld lead to the disambiguation page. Since this is a link to a well known meaning of FutureWorld, it may point to the right page. Moreover pointing to the disambiguation page gives no information to the reader.
Unfortunately I don't know to what FutureWorld we are referring here, so I cannot change the link. Moreover, I recently watched the FutureWorld movie, and I cannot remember any chess battle (but this does not absolutely mean that there are not chess battles! :-))
-213.140.22.78 13:45, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have corrected the spelling of Futureworld so it points properly to the 1976 movie, which is indeed part of the inspiration for the game Battle Chess, and does contain an "animated" sequence (actually live action). -Two-Tonic Knight 07:02, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: FutureWorld

message: A semi non-sequitur, but "inspired by star wars IV"? somehow I do not think that that is true —Preceding unsigned comment added by Je007 (talk • contribs) 04:11, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It was in part inspired by the specific 3D chess sequence in the original Star Wars between R2-D2 and Chewbacca ("Let the Wookie win!"), not by the rest of the movie.  Two-Tonic Knight (talk) 07:37, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Which may have been inspired by Futureworld (1976), which came out a year before Star Wars (1977). Regardless, until a reliable source is found detailing the inspiration of either film chess sequence or Battle Chess, it's all speculation. —Eekerz (t) 04:23, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Inspiration

message: Was Battle Chess an inspiration for Harry Potter's "Wizard Chess"? 124.158.32.200 (talk) 13:51, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Harry Potter

message: A windows version of this was released in 1991. I've added it to the Windows games category. 2fort5r (talk) 11:31, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Windows version 

message: The term "duck" in software engineering jargon originated with Battle Chess.  Does anyone else think that's worth mentioning?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.75.114.108 (talk) 19:39, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Since I've never heard of the term before, I'd say no. HalfShadow 19:41, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

text: Before which version of Battle Chess? I have an original copy of Battle Chess for the Amiga, with a copyright date of 1988 and clearly naming both Interplay and Electronic Arts in the manual. It is possible Electronic Arts handled the distribution in the UK (where my copy was purchased) or Europe, but not elsewhere. 86.183.213.186 (talk) 19:06, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: According to the Hall of Light game database Electronic Arts was the publisher in Europe. http://hol.abime.net/60 86.183.213.186 (talk) 19:11, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  The duck 

message: I am wondering if anyone knows WoW's Karazhan Chess event is a homage to Battle Chess:
http://www.wowwiki.com/Chess_event
Misosoup7 (talk) 13:45, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  World of Warcraft Pays Homage to Battle Chess? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Surely there should only have been 6×5=30, since the game ends before the king can be captured? (Or double that to 60 if you consider wRxbN to be different from bRxwN and so on.) Double sharp (talk) 11:07, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, I see. The TV Tropes page linked at the bottom indicates that king-capturing animations are played when the king is checkmated. Since the checkmating piece cannot be another king, this does indeed imply that there are 35 animations, so the article is correct. Double sharp (talk) 12:34, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

text: This YouTube video disagrees : "No King vs. King - any situation where the only moves a player can do put him in check automatically ends the game as a stalemate in this version of chess." Equinox ◑ 06:09, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of battle animations 

message: My memory is that the AI opponent was poor. Did the developers write their own chess engine or buy one in? Lovingboth (talk) 08:00, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Playing strength 

message: I removed this section for two reasons: Firstly, it was massively over-referenced. Twelve references to support "a version was supposed to be be released in 1995" is the worst citation overkill I've seen. Secondly, it was misleading. "Release" sections on most software articles discuss the release history for all versions and platforms.  This was a one-sentence section about a release that never happened for only one platform. Vaporware is, and has long been, an unavoidable factor in software and is only notable if the vaporware nature of the announcements gets coverage.  Development of Duke Nukem Forever is a notable example.  The announcements of software never released are run of the mill for software and not notable in themselves, even if there is coverage in reliable sources. The article lede also already specified the platforms that did support the software so there's no reason to have an entire section devoted to one platform that never supported it.  It is very WP:UNDUE emphasis on the unsupported platform. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 18:01, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Release" section 

message: Merriam-Webster's dictionary definition  describes a real (non-computer) chess variant, where players can secretly arrange their pieces as they wish before play begins. I can't find much on this elsewhere. Equinox ◑ 06:07, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Also a variant of real chess?