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 Chess.com, an internet chess server and social networking website 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 Chess (Madetoja), a composition by Leevi Madetoja
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)