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. This first variant in the set is Battlefield Chess 96 - Standard I. It uses Archers and Catapults with standard jumping and capture capabilities.

Battlefied Chess 96 is played on a 12x8 board and includes two new pieces--Archer and Catapult. 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 opponents 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.