Star Wars Chess

Overview

Star Wars Chess is a 1993 chess game developed by The Software Toolworks. It was released on PC and the Sega CD. The game is a standard chess game in which all of the pieces are represented by characters from the original Star Wars film trilogy. Similar to Battle Chess, when one piece captures another, a brief animation plays showing a battle between the two characters. Some of these battles could be particularly humorous, as it is possible for C-3PO (a light side bishop) to defeat Darth Vader (the dark side queen).

Characters and Chess Pieces

Light Side

• 8 R2D2 Pawns
• 2 C-3PO Bishops
• 2 Yoda Rooks
• 2 Chewbacca Knights
• 1 Princess Leia Queen
• 1 Luke Skywalker King

Dark Side

• 8 Imperial Stormtrooper Pawns
• 2 Tusken Raider Bishops
• 2 AT-ST Rooks
• 2 Boba Fett Knights
• 1 Darth Vader Queen
• 1 Emperor Palpatine King