High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Virtual Chess 64 is a chess simulation game for the Nintendo 64. It was first released in 1997. It was also considered to be very difficult. The game featured no true "completion" in the form of a goal or a score, so one could theoretically play an endless number of matches. One feature that made the game interesting is that when a piece was captured, a short animated cutscene would play back depicting the battle, as in 1988`s Battle Chess.