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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
• 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

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)

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