Battle Chess: Game of Kings Battle Chess: Game of Kings Battle Chess: Game of Kings is a video game developed by Olde Skuul for publisher Interplay Entertainment. The Early access version was released on Steam on March 16, 2014. A complete version of the game was released on December 12, 2015. It is a remake of the 1988 video game "Battle Chess", which was co-developed by Interplay and Blizzard Entertainment. The game is graphically updated from the original "Battle Chess" and features many new styles of gameplay. The game is played via turn-based multiplayer and allows the player to compete at a scalable difficulty against
White and Black in chess first player as well as second ... this was a common fad in his day, which persisted with a great number of players, as a study of the "Chess Players' Chronicle" and other magazines shows. In the Immortal Game (Anderssen-Kieseritzky, offhand game, London 1851), one of the most famous games in history, Anderssen had the Black pieces but moved first. He also took the Black pieces but moved first in the sixth, eighth, and tenth games of his famous 1858 match against Paul Morphy. Each of those games began 1.a3 e5 2.c4, when Anderssen was effectively playing the Sicilian Defense