Brutal Chess features full 3D graphics, an
advanced particle engine, and several different
levels of intelligent AI, inspired by the once
popular "Battle Chess" released by Interplay circa
1988.
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The colors of the board squares were fixed. A bug
that allowed castling when it shouldn't have been
legal was fixed. Proper Linux install scripts were
added.
Major feature enhancements include a completely new code base, a menu system to replace the console, a new pawn promotion interface, variable AI difficulty, a new loading screen, shadows and other graphical tweaks, full rotation of the camera, history arrows displaying the previous move, and MD3 (Quake 3) model support.