Chess is a two-player board game.

Chess or CHESS may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

  • Chess (One Piece), a fictional character in Eiichirō Oda's manga
  • Chess, a villain in the 2011 TV series The Cape
  • Chess Warmwater, a character in Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie

Games

  • Chess (macOS)
  • Chess (Northwestern University), a pioneering chess program from the 1970s
  • Chess variants, including:
  • Business chess
  • Chaturanga, also named chatur or catur; an old variant
  • Fairy chess, standard chess with unusual pieces, rules, or board
  • Hiashatar, or Mongolian chess
  • Indian chess
  • Janggi, or Korean chess
  • Jangju, or Manchu chess
  • Jetan, or Martian chess
  • Makruk, or Thai chess
  • Shatar, or Mongolian chess
  • Shatranj, or Persian chess
  • Shogi, sometimes called Japanese chess
  • Sittuyin, or Burmese chess
  • Three-dimensional chess
  • Xiangqi, or Chinese chess
  • Chess Titans, a computer chess game with 3D graphics developed by Oberon Games and included in Windows Vista and Windows 7 Home Premium
  • Chess.com, an internet chess server and social networking website
  • GNU Chess, a free software chess engine

Other uses in arts entertainment, and media

  • Chess (2006 film), a Malayalam film
  • Chess (2008 film), working title of the film Who Do You Love?
  • CHESS magazine, published monthly in the UK
  • Chess (musical)
  • Chess (poem), a c. 1565 poem by Jan Kochanowski
  • Chess Records, an American record label
  • Chess (Madetoja), a composition by Leevi Madetoja

Organizations

  • Army CHESS (Computer Hardware Enterprise Software and Solutions)
  • Chess Communication, a Norwegian mobile virtual network operator
  • Coalition of Higher Education Students in Scotland

Science and technology

  • Chess, a type of brome grass often considered a weed
  • Australian Clearing House and Electronic Sub-register System, an Australian electronic register of approved securities holdings
  • Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, a high-intensity X-ray lightsource

Other uses

  • Chess (surname)
  • Chess, a floorboard of a pontoon bridge
  • Chess pie
  • River Chess, in Buckinghamshire, England

See also

  • Chess in early literature
  • Topics in chess
  • Glossary of chess
  • History of chess
  • Timeline of chess
  • Outline of chess
  • Chess piece (disambiguation)
  • Chess player (disambiguation)
  • Chinese chess (disambiguation)
  • Viking chess (disambiguation)
  • Cheese (disambiguation)