Chess (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Games 2 Music 3 Abbreviation 4 Products and services 5 Other 6 See also

Chess or CHESS may refer to:

[edit] Games

• Chess, a complex board game played with chess pieces on a chess board
• Chess variants including:
  • Xiangqi, or Chinese chess
  • Shogi, sometimes called Japanese chess
  • Makruk, or Thai chess
  • Chaturanga, or Indian chess
  • Janggi, or Korean chess
  • Sittuyin, or Burmese chess
  • 3D Chess
• Chess Titans, a computer game of chess included in Windows Vista
• Chess (application), a chess computer game for Mac OS X
• Chess (Northwestern University), a pioneering chess program from the 1970s

[edit] Music

• Chess (musical), a musical with lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson
• Chess Records, a record label

[edit] Abbreviation

• Australian Clearing House and Electronic Sub-register System, an Australian electronic book-entry register of holdings of approved securities
• Coalition of Higher Education Students in Scotland, a body representative of students in Scotland founded in 2002
• Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, a high-intensity high-energy X-ray lightsource supported by the National Science Foundation

[edit] Products and services

• Short for CHESS magazine, published monthly in the UK
• Chess Communication, a Norwegian mobile virtual network operator

[edit] Other

• Chess, a floorboard of a pontoon bridge
• Chess, a type of brome grass often considered a weed
• Chess (character), one of the manga and anime One Piece minor characters
• Chess Warmwater, a character in Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
• Chess pie, a type of pie
• Chess cake, a type of cake
• CHESS model checker, a model checker

[edit] See also

• Chess piece (disambiguation)

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