Chess (disambiguation)

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Chess is a two-player board game.

Chess or CHESS may also refer to:

Games

Board games

• Chess variants, including:
  • Chaturanga, also named chatur or catur; an old variant
  • Hiashatar, or Mongolian chess
  • Indian chess
  • Janggi, or Korean chess
  • Makruk, or Thai chess
  • Shatar, or Mongolian chess
  • Shatranj, or Persian chess
  • Shogi, sometimes called Japanese chess
  • Sittuyin, or Burmese chess
  • Xiangqi, or Chinese chess
  • Three-dimensional chess
  • Business chess

Computer games

• GNU Chess, a free software program
• Chess Titans, included in Windows Vista
• Chess (Mac OS)
• Chess (Northwestern University), a pioneering program from the 1970s

Art

• Chess (poem), by Jan Kochanowski, written c. 1565
• Chess (musical)
• Chess Records, an American record label, based in Chicago, Illinois
• Chess (2006 film), a Malayalam film
• Chess, the working title of the 2008 film Who Do You Love?

Fictional characters

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

Science and technology

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

Organizations

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

Other uses

• CHESS magazine, published monthly in the UK
• Chess (surname)
• Chess, a floorboard of a pontoon bridge
• Chess pie
• River Chess, in Buckinghamshire, England

See also

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