Chess Warmwater, a character in Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie

Chess (character), one of the manga and anime One Piece minor characters

Chess, a complex board game played with chess pieces on a chess board

Shogi, sometimes called Japanese chess

Xiangqi, or Chinese chess

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

Chess variants including:

Janggi, or Korean chess

3D Chess

Chaturanga, or Indian chess

Chess, a type of brome grass often considered a weed

Chess Titans, a computer game of chess included in Windows Vista

Makruk, or Thai chess

Chess Records, a record label

Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, a high-intensity high-energy X-ray lightsource supported by the National Science Foundation

Chess (application), a chess computer game for Mac OS X

Chess pie, a type of pie

Coalition of Higher Education Students in Scotland, a body representative of students in Scotland founded in 2002

Sittuyin, or Burmese chess

Chess (Northwestern University), a pioneering chess program from the 1970s

Chess Communication, a Norwegian mobile virtual network operator

Australian Clearing House and Electronic Sub-register System, an Australian electronic book-entry register of holdings of approved securities

Short for CHESS magazine, published monthly in the UK