Chess Crusade is a video game of the board game

Traditional game

In computer and video games, a traditional game is a computer program adaptation of a non-computer game . Board games and card games have been around for many years such as Go which is thought to have been around in ancient China more than 2,500 years ago, and although it is not known exactly when...

 genre developed in 2008 by Slam Games. Chess Crusade follows the game of chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

featuring animations between chess pieces, as these medieval themed characters confront each other on the chess board.

Chess Crusades

Chess Crusade was never released, and was re-tooled into "Chess Crusades" and released in 2010 for the iPad.