Chess (disambiguation)

Chess is a two-player board game.

Chess or CHESS may also refer to:

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
 * 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

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