Chess

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Chess or CHESS may refer to:

Board games

• Chess variants including:
  • Chess, a board game sometimes called international chess
  • Xiangqi, or Chinese chess
  • Shogi, sometimes called Japanese chess
  • Makruk, or Thai chess
  • Chaturanga
  • Indian chess
  • Janggi, or Korean chess
  • Sittuyin, or Burmese chess
  • Shatranj, or Persian chess
  • 3D Chess

Computer games

• GNU Chess, the GNU free software chess program.
• 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

Music

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

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

Products and services

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

Other

• Chess (2006 film)
• Chess was the working title of Who Do You Love? (2008 film)
• Chess, a floorboard of a pontoon bridge
• Chess, a type of brome grass often considered a weed
• Chess (One Piece), a fictional character in Eiichirō Oda's manga One Piece
• Chess Warmwater, a character in Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
• Chess pie, a type of pie
• CHESS model checker, a model checker
• River Chess, a river in Buckinghamshire in England

See also

• Chess piece (disambiguation)
• Chess player, disambiguation page
• Chess in early literature
• Timeline of chess
• Chinese chess (disambiguation)
• History of chess

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