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)