I may be perverted, but I really would have liked to see that slinky queen in widow's black or virginal white (The basic colors used in the game are lavender and blue.). Redefinable color values for the chess sets would given the game a personal ambiance. They could have easily included chess clocks to give one the same feeling of time pressure that tournaments create. One thing they should have included was a printed listing of the moves in each game, with an option of dumping it to the printer.

Computer Gaming World - Issue 5 (1989): 'The guys at Interplay missed some opportunities to make Battlechess an even better program than it now is.