Dota Chess comes from Dota Auto Chess, the custom Dota 2 mode released by Drodo Studio in January 2019 that helped popularise the auto battler genre. Players placed hero pieces on a board and watched them fight automatically, a format that spread quickly to other games and streaming clips. Short sounds linked to the game later circulated on soundboards and in edits, where this clip is now used less as gameplay audio and more as a quick gaming reference that viewers recognise from the title alone.