Chess (disambiguation)
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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 EiichirÅ 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 (Mac OS)
- Chess (Northwestern University), a pioneering chess program from the 1970s
- Chess variants, including:
- Backgammon, or Turkish Tavla
- 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
- 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), the 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
- Chess piece (disambiguation)
- Chess player (disambiguation)
- Chinese chess (disambiguation)
- Viking chess (disambiguation)
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