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, a 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, the GNU free software chess program
- Chess Titans, a computer game of chess included in Windows Vista
- Chess (Mac OS), a chess computer game for Mac OS X
- Chess (Northwestern University), a pioneering chess program from the 1970s
Art
- Chess (poem), a poem by Jan Kochanowski, written c. 1565
- Chess (musical), a musical with lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson
- Chess Records, an American record label, based in Chicago, Illinois
- Chess (2006 film), a 2006 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 One Piece
- Chess, a villain in the 2011 TV series The Cape
Science and technology
- Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, a high-intensity high-energy X-ray lightsource supported by the National Science Foundation
- CHESS model checker
- Australian Clearing House and Electronic Sub-register System, an Australian electronic book-entry register of holdings of approved securities
- 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, a body representative of students in Scotland founded in 2002
Other uses
- CHESS magazine, published monthly in the UK
- Chess (surname)
- Chess, a floorboard of a pontoon bridge
- Chess pie
- River Chess, a river in Buckinghamshire, England