I expect this as a WiiWare title - I'm not sure how they can justify it as a fully boxed title. But then if anyone can, it will be Nintendo.

I won't consider this, unless its up there with ChessMaster...

It NEEDS to be hard, and have online play.

Don't you know, NJ5? All the previous computer chess games are invalid.

Remember playing Battle Chess in 1988? No you don't, it never existed!

If it was like Harry Potter where the pieces come alive and slaughter one another, id buy that. I personally hoped it would be a Wiiware title instead.

Battle Chess + Mario = Win (I'm sold!)

I searched for Wii Chess in game stores, and the most of them announced that the game won't be availible before the last month in 2007, but some of them announced that the game will be in sale already in November... I think Nintendo has to hurry up with advertising the game anyway, since even if it would be published in December, then it's still just 2 months left!

Wii Chess can easily be called for the forgotten Wii franchise game!

IGN posted some images of this yesterday.

Still scheduled to come out (boxed!) in Europe. Why is anyone's guess. Europe is very casual game friendly, but still, this had better be damn cheap.

Nintendo Europe have released the weirdest screenshot ever, an error message:

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European release Jan 18th. More at http://www.gametactics.com/?view=article&article=1476

I made my own 3D chess game, it took 2 days, this is just going to be a cheap game for a quick profit