Object: Checkmate the opponent's King by attacking it so it cannot escape. To see a description of how a piece moves right-click on it to bring up its properties dialog.

Battlefied Chess 64 is a by product of developing a Chess variant called Battlefield Chess 96, which is played on a 12x8 board and includes two new pieces--Archer and Catapult. And the concept of the battlefield and the Archers and Catapults originated in my collection of 20 variants in Round Table Chess. In medieval times, waring castles were far apart and their armies had to travel long distances to arrive at the opposing castle. Then they had to fight from a battlefield to enter the opposing castle. They could not defend their own castle while in the opposing castle. Thus, Battlefield Chess only allows the pieces to enter the opponent's castle (the starting area of the pieces behind the purple lines) from the battlefield. The area between the purple lines (i.e., the four rows between the Pawns) is the battlefield.