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Battle VS Chess (PC & Mac DVD) 2 Games in one.

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3.2 out of 5 stars
3.2 out of 5
85 global ratings

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Customers like the quality and graphics of the chess game. They mention that it's the best ches game ever, the side games are interesting, and the animation is well designed. However, some customers report compatibility issues with the most recent version only working with OS 10.6.

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6 customers mention6 positive0 negative

Customers find the chess game great, the best ches game ever, and the perfect choice in battle chesses. They also say the side games are interesting and the story line sounds like an Illuminati story. Overall, customers say the game is inventive and lots of fun.

"...are good and the multiple options of gaming makes for the perfect choice in battle chess." Read more

"The best chess game ever. If you like playing chess you will love Battle vs Chess." Read more

"...the response time at high levels is reasonable, and the game at lower levels seems decent...." Read more

"...The side games are interesting, but the story line sounds like an illuminati story line where they turn the Bible event of Jacob and Bethel..." Read more

5 customers mention5 positive0 negative

Customers find the graphics excellent and well designed to intrigue young chess players.

"...This is the best i found. Graphics are good and the multiple options of gaming makes for the perfect choice in battle chess." Read more

"The animation is so well designed to intrigue young chess players" Read more

"...Again, I find this game to have good graphics but the side game back story which seems to place good as bad, makes me loose interest." Read more

"love this game, the animation is great" Read more

4 customers mention0 positive4 negative

Customers are dissatisfied with the compatibility of the software. They mention that the most recent version only works with OS 10.6 and that the Mac version doesn't work. Some customers also mention that their Mac won't even recognize the game.

"Mac version doesn't work and I got no response from their tech support." Read more

"This game (en-mature) is NOT compatible with modern computers." Read more

"...only to find out that their most recent version only works with OS 10.6 (snow leopard). This OS was over and done with in 2011!..." Read more

"It advertises Mac and PC, but my Mac won't even recognize it, let alone play it. I really dislike false advertising." Read more

Top reviews from the United States

coolsio
5.0 out of 5 stars Finally a good animated chess game
Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2014
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I've been looking for an animated Chess game for my son (and me). This is the best i found. Graphics are good and the multiple options of gaming makes for the perfect choice in battle chess.
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Shaws
1.0 out of 5 stars Mac users, don't buy it
Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2016
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Mac version doesn't work and I got no response from their tech support.
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Anthony Levon Nolan
5.0 out of 5 stars Game Review.
Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2016
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The best chess game ever. If you like playing chess you will love Battle vs Chess.
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Edgar V, PhD
2.0 out of 5 stars Bug in the chess engine. Please email seller about compatibility before buying!
Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2018
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 There is a bug in the chess engine. I have better things to do than testing a game in different platforms, but I am specially interested in this game because my little daughter loves the animations. So I purchased both this PC DVD version here, and a Linux port from the TopWare site.

You can read in this very same Amazon page that the manufacturer claims "Utilizing the famous FRITZ! chess algorithm". I do not see how that can be. The game has 10 levels of difficulty, and to my surprise it plays completely awful, sometimes worse than random moves from levels 0 to 6, and if you try levels 7 to 9 it simply gets stuck "thinking" and does not respond once the opening book is over.

I emailed TopWare and they told me that it should take below 10 seconds to answer in level 8, even after the opening book is over, but in my machine I got tired of waiting after 5 minutes.

I have a special interest as said, so I have tried the game in different machines of my office mates. Some Windows 10 64 bit, some Windows 8, with different CPUs, and it is the same everywhere. Instant but awful moves below level 7, or no moves at all in a finite amount of time in levels 7 and above. Then I found someone in YouTube complaining about the same issue but she or he managed to make the program work on an older gaming laptop with Windows 7

Then I found a friend with a Windows 7 laptop and I tried and, yes, in that machine the response time at high levels is reasonable, and the game at lower levels seems decent.

So, before buying, please email the seller first and list your hardware. Ask them if it is compatible with the game. And after you receive the product, test it on your machine. The way to know if you are affected by this is going directly to level 7 or 8 and playing a game. If the response time is of a few seconds per move once you past the opening book (i.e. 4 or 6 moves into the game more or less) then you are lucky. But if it gets stuck "thinking" at the 4th or 5th move, then you should ask for a refund. The main problem is not the response time at the higher levels, but the bad moves at lower levels like, e.g. bringing knights to the edge of the board and them back, or when the king abandons his square and does a suicidal walk to the middle of the board for no reason. Do not expose a learning child to that, it is going to be deeply counterproductive.
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Ren
3.0 out of 5 stars Battle Chess - dated but still kickin.
Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2015
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I mean, its an old Battle Chess game. It comes with PC and Mac versions and its LIVE enabled. That means ACHIEVEMENTS!
http://www.trueachievements.com/Battle-vs-Chess-PC/achievements.htm

Installs and works perfectly on Windows 10.

There are 2 keys you need. 1 which is on the back of the manual to activate the game and the other which is included on a single sheet will activate the GfWL integration.
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PAUL LUNDSGAARD
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2015
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The animation is so well designed to intrigue young chess players
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Douglas E. Smith
1.0 out of 5 stars One Star
Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2015
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This game (en-mature) is NOT compatible with modern computers.
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Edwin D. Ricketts
2.0 out of 5 stars Battle VS Chess
Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2013
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This product works. It does what it says, arrived in good condition and able to use it for my purpose. I found the chess traditional game good and the graphics excellent, but IMSO not the story line of the side game. The side games are interesting, but the story line sounds like an illuminati story line where they turn the Bible event of Jacob and Bethel (Genesis 28:10-17) upside down. And Jacob in this game is associated with the dark side. Again, I find this game to have good graphics but the side game back story which seems to place good as bad, makes me loose interest.
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boitelle robert
5.0 out of 5 stars Bon jeu d échec qui reste redoutable !
Reviewed in France on February 14, 2021
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Histoire de passer as autre chose ou ma femme et moi ont joue régulièrement au échecs avec des vrai pièces ,bon ce qui m as plus est que le jeux ne coûte pas cher !
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QUINTANA
1.0 out of 5 stars problemas windows 10
Reviewed in Spain on November 22, 2017
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Me da problemas para instalarlo en el Windows 10, no puedo instalarlo
Es una pena
error live:hr=0x800b100
prodriamos hacer algo
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Alessandro Ronchi
5.0 out of 5 stars Bel Fantasy-Cavalleresco.
Reviewed in Italy on December 29, 2015
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Evoluzione dell'idea nata dal famoso vecchio Battle Chess per Ms-Dos, del 1988, questo gioco del 2011, si avvale delle tecniche di grafica moderne, offrendo così una ambientazione Fantasy-Cavalleresca in alta definizione, non solo bella da vedere, ma che crea anche atmosfere e sfondi evocativi.
Nato principalmente per gli amanti del gioco degli scacchi "classici", il videogame tuttavia spazia e apre le porte a varie opportunità, che vanno dal giocare On line, al compiere missioni sempre più impegnative in una campagna di guerra tra le due fazioni, per passare a minigiochi rompicapo, o un tutorial che insegna come il tutto funziona.
10 livelli di gioco a seconda dall'abilità dell'utente, permettono di non annoiarsi.
Esistono altri giochi di "Battle Chess", ma nel complesso credo che ora come ora, il migliore sia questo.
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Markus
5.0 out of 5 stars Battle vs Chess ( Schach )
Reviewed in Germany on November 2, 2012
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BATTLE VS CHESS

Das Anmelden bei games for Windows live dauert ein bisschen,aber wenn man sich damit beschäftigt ist das in 5min erledig.
steht auch in der Anleitung wie es Funkt.

Kommen wir zum Spiel.

Grafik: Die Grafik dieses Spiels is sehr gut gemacht finde ich,natürlich ist sie nicht wie bei einem MMO oder sowas
aber nah drann kommt sie alle mal. Ich spiele dieses spiel auf der Höchsten auflösung!!! Auch niedrige
Auflösungen sehen gut aus. ( Ich spiele auf einem Labtop )

Das Spiel: BEI EINZELSPIELEN hat man die Auswahl eine Kampagne zu spielen, Gut oder Böse! Die Kampagnen sind so gemacht
das es einem nicht schnell langweilig wird,da die Art zu gewinnen immer schwerer wird. D.h z.b Gewinne dieses
spiel ohne das dein König 1x im schach steht usw. Sind wir doch mal ehrlich,wenn spiele zu einfach sind
verliere ich zu mindest die lust daran. Deswegen bin ich sehr zufrieden mit den Kampagnen die es da gibt,
fängt leicht an und wird immer schwerer, mit ein bisschen Übung schließt man auch alle ab.
Im Einzelspiel kann man auch natürlich einfach paar schnelle Schachpartien zocken.

KOMMEN WIR ZU DEN MINISPIELEN (auch im Einzelmodus ). Die Minispiele sind ein perfekter Zeitvertreib wenn man
mal die schnauze voll hat auf Kampagnen oder im Internet zu zocken. Aber auch diese sind mit viel Spaß zu
meistern. Da gibt es z.b Puzzel spiele ( auch eine Art Schach ),von normal bis schwer!! ich erkläre es in
kurzer Version, nur das man sich ein Bild machen kann: Schachbrett auf denen Edelsteine verteilt sind,
1ne Figur ( Turm oder Dame usw. ). Sammle in einer bestimmten Zeit oder Züge so viel edelsteine ein wie du
kannst. Aber die Puzzel sind nicht die einzigen Minispiele,da gibt noch ein haufen mehr.

DIE KAMPFDUELLE! Es gibt eine Arte Schach bei Battle vs Chess, bei dieser Art geht es darum erst mal
normales Schach zu spielen, mit einer ausnahme. Wenn man eine Figur des gegners angreift oder man vom gegner
angegriffen wird. Kommt es zu einem Fight,je nach Wert der Figur ( Wert=Stärke ) sehen die chancen zum
gewinnen gut oder net so gut aus. ( Wird ingame aber nochmal besser erklärt ) fakt ist, diese Art peppt
dieses Schachspiel nochmal richtig auf.

Der Mehrspielermodus:

Wie der Name schon sagt kann man hier im Internet zocken, Die Maps und die Regeln sind frei wählbar,was ich
persönlich sehr gut finde. Man kann auch natürlich auch schnelle Spiele starten oder über Games for Windows
live mit seinen Freunden Spielen. Was es auch noch gibt ist ein sogenanntes Head to Head, wie der Name schon
sagt kann man zu 2 an einem Bildschirm spielen. Z.b Weiß macht einen Zug und das schachbrett dreht sich
Automatisch so das Schwarz ziehen kann. Diese spielweise ist gewöhnungsbedürftig aber auch eine möglichkeit
mit seinen Freunden eine spannende partie Schach zu spielen.Ob es einen Chat gibt weis ich nicht,hab auch
nicht drauf geachtet.

Kommen wir zu meinem letzten Punkt, Games for Windows Live:

Games for Windows Live ist eine plattform im Internet auf der man sich Anmelden sollte, hier kann man jetzt
Den Namen seines Avatars ändern und persönliche ( nur wenn man will ) daten eintragen. Hat man sich auf
dieser Seite registriert kann man jetzt Ingame ( wenn man pos 1 drückt ) ein kleines Fenster aufrufen. In
diesem steht, freunde,nachrichten,dein Profil ( also deine Fortschritte,Erfolge usw.)und natürlich an und ab
melden von Games for Windows Live.
Ich finde dieses Fenster echt gut,mit einem kleinen Knopfdruck kann ich alles sehn was zum Spiel dazugehört
und ich kann noch Nachrichten an meine Feunde schicken wann immer ich es im Spiel will.

Zusammenfassung: Es ist ein sehr umfangreiches und schönes Schachspiel, Wer keine lust auf das Normale Schach hat
und ein bisschen Bewegung und Action beim spielen von Schach brauch,ist bei Battle vs Chess genau
richtig. Zu dem kann man sich mit Spielern in aller Welt messen oder seinen Freunden zeigen wo
es lang geht. Zu dem hat man reichlich abwechslung mit Minispiele oder Battlegrounds.

Für Beginner ( wie ich einer bin ) oder schon für Pro's genau richtig !! Für anfänger wird auch im spiel
nochmal alles erklärt,Spielfiguren,remie,patt usw.

ABER ACHTUNG!!!!! Wer kein Schach mag sollte die Finger von diesem Spiel lassen, es ist und bleibt ein Schachspiel!!!

LG Markus
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Mr. Leslie J. Moore
5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT GRAPHICS
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 28, 2012
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I have often wondered about whether a software programme that was able to deal with chess,combined with good graphics would be able to deliver and still be affordable.
Well, here we have the answer. Yes, it's do-able.
I like chess,but sometimes,you know, it's a bit samey.
Along comes this software, and for those times when you want something a bit different, BAM BAM GRAPHICS.Also, a skilful opponent.
I really like it,at this price you cannot go wrong, any niggles are not worth mentioning.
Extremely good value for money
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