I have bought Battle Chess from Gog, but there is a problem i am having. The animations and movements in the first Battle Chess is very very slow and frustrating. I wonder if it is a problem about windows compatibility or is it just the way the game originally was?

have you tried pressing ctrl-f12 a few times to see if that helps

No, the game originally is much faster. I don't know why GOG release is so slow, I have the same problem. My thought is that they got the right to sell battle chess, put it in dosbox and release it without testing it or knowing how faster it should be.
ctrl+f12 doesn't help.

As I said the game originally is meant to be faster. When I was a child I played it on a 8086 and was faster than that. The problem is, imo, dosbox.
Is it possibile, instead, to add the windows versione that I know exists?

It's always been slow. The animations are tied to the sounds, which are paced such that they can be swapped in and played in time with the anims on an 8086.
But back in the 80s we didn't notice. Damnable nostalgia.

Thanks for your answer

can the gog team improve on the graphics?I remember on my 3do the graphics on this game were a 100 times better and the sounds were better too,as it is it kind of sucks

I just noticed that disabling the sound in the menu (accessed by holding down the right mouse button) significantly increases the animation speed ;)

I swear to god my memory is perfect. The chessboard was blue, the sound was squeakier, and the animations were faster.

I had this on a floppy disc on windows 98 back in the day.

It's definitely slow. Freezing up when it has to play a sound alongside an animation. The moves were medium-slow on the original (I've played the Amiga and I think other versions) but SMOOTH, and the slowness/jerkiness here isn't the same.

I turned sound off and it plays just like the original on a quick test, so it is a conflict with the sound.

Great to be able to play it again though, GOG! :)

I suck at chess, so now I can get my butt handed to me in a timely manner. Thanks for the solution.

"Works for me *problem solved*".

This type of customer service is why I'm leery to buy anything from gog...

I remember playing this on the Amiga and the sound didn't pause the animation while the sound was playing. I was hoping for the same experience with this DOSBox version. Oh well, at least BC4000 is fun.