Cruel and Unusual Death: Queen attacks any piece other than the King.

Jumping to the next square (or off the board if he's already at the edge)! Finally, when captured by a Queen, he tries to escape by. Against other Pawns, he stamps the butt of his spear on the opponent's foot against Knights, simply knees him between the legs against Bishops, he positions him over a hidden trapdoor against Rooks, he uses a Groin Attack and then grinds him to pieces with the butt of his spear against the Queen, he chucks a dagger into her back when she tries to walk away when checkmating the King, he simply hoists the King's crown and takes it for his own.

To an extent, the Pawn is this too, as he uses dirty tactics against his opponents.

While every other piece sticks to a general technique they'll use - the Pawn's spear and Bishop's crozier, the Rook's sheer brute force (he turns into a rock monster to move and attack), the Knight's sword and shield and the Queen's magic - the King has a unique weapon for each piece he attacks: A hidden flail in his sceptre to take down Pawns, magic shrinking powder to remove Rooks, seduction of the Queen before clubbing her out, bombs to dispatch Knights, and freakin' guns to take out Bishops. The executive told him it looked great except the duck had to go, and he ended up with exactly the original design. And then added a pet duck that made no sense in the context.

So he drew her animations exactly like he wanted. He knew he was working with meddlesome executives, and he also knew exactly what he wanted the Queen to look like, how she should move, etc. Censor Decoy: A really funny and non-offensive variation by the artist who drew the Queen.

Catch and Return: Bishops can kill Pawns like this in Game of Kings with the Pawn throwing a dagger at the Bishop who catches it with magic, then throws it back at the offender.Bring It: Done by the Rook to the King in Game of Kings.Bloodier and Gorier: The American version.The Bishop's main weapon is a retractable blade built into his crosier.Berserk Button: Don't try to seduce the King if you don't mean it.Beam-O-War: Queen vs Bishop can result in a magic version of this in Game of Kings.The queen attempts this when defending against the knight, only for it to be reflected. For instance, her checkmate involves turning the King into both a donkey and a frog. Baleful Polymorph: The Queen has powers to do this.If you don't understand, I'll smash YOU!' And while talking about castling, 'I'm only going to go through it ONCE. Ax-Crazy: In the tutorial, the Rook loves talking about smashing things.Game of Kings also gives him a much more muscular build than the original game. Authority Equals Asskicking: The King, who has no problems going toe to toe with much younger and stronger characters.Attack Reflector: The Knight defeats the Queen by bouncing her Baleful Polymorph back at her with his shield.Same for a King attacking a Knight - the Knight catches the Cartoon Bomb the King bats at him, blinks at the player, then looks down when he realizes the fuse is burning out.The Pawn briefly looks at the player in response, as if to say: 'What the hell?!'

When a Queen attacks a Pawn, she uses her magic to make his spear vanish.

It's arguably worst in the NES port, where it's so adamant on never losing any pieces that putting so much as an enemy pawn in position to be captured will cause the CPU to lock up while it tries to think of a way out of the predicament.

Artificial Stupidity: As mentioned in the main blurb, the AI isn't the sharpest to ever appear in the chess game.

Armor Is Useless: Knights are often on the receiving end of this - sword thrusts effortlessly penetrating their breastplates is a common result of battles in Game of Kings.

Amusing Injuries / Bloody Hilarious: Contributes to the Black Comedy in Battle Chess and goes into downright slapstick territory in Chinese Chess.

Agony of the Feet: In the original Pawn vs Pawn.

In Battle Chess, it transforms into a rock monster when moving and fighting.

Adaptational Badass: The Rook, in the original board game, is a watchtower of some kind.

A remake, Battle Chess: Game of Kings was released on Steam in 2015. It had sequels: Battle Chess 4000, which is normal chess but with sci-fi characters used as chess pieces, and Battle Chess II: Chinese Chess, based on the Chinese Chess board game.

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