Battle Chess is a computer game version of chess in which the chess pieces come to life and battle one another when capturing. The game itself was inspired by the 3D chess sequences from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and Futureworld.

There are two releases of the DOS version, the first version was a 16-colour only version. The re-release contains both the 16 colour and a 256-colour version.

• The 16-colour version supports all video adapters, but only up to 16-colours.
• The 16-colour version supports Tandy sound if run on a Tandy 1000 computer.
• The 16-colour version requires a minimum of DOS 2.0 or 2.1 with 512KB RAM
• The 256-colour version supports only MCGA/VGA video adapters
• The 256-colour version requires a minimum of DOS 3.1 with 640KB RAM

Note: Some boxes indicate a minimum of DOS 2.0 and other indicate 2.1. The only difference between 2.0 and 2.1 is that 2.1 adds support for the IBM PCjr. Likewise a Tandy 1000 would require at least the special Tandy OEM release of MS-DOS 2.11.