A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns.

a game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king

a completely different challenge, and it will inevitably attract its own type of player

Refers to the classic board game of the same name. Most computer chess games allow playing the computer at varying levels of difficulty.

a most intriguing intellectual challenge, played in a cultured manner according to strict rules and regulations. The object of the game is to crush your opponent.

Chess is a recreational and competitive strategy game of skill for two players. Sometimes called Western Chess or International Chess to distinguish it from its predecessors and other chess variants, the current form of the game emerged in Southern Europe in the second half of the 15th century after evolving from similar, much older games of Asian origin. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular sports, played by an estimated 605 million people worldwide in clubs, online, by correspondence (mail and e-mail), in tournaments (amateur and professional) and informally.

Chess is a chess game for Mac OS X, and its progenitor, OPENSTEP, featuring a high quality graphical display and support for chess variants such as crazyhouse and suicide chess. Also included are different skins featuring metal, grass, marble and wood. It is bundled with the Mac OS X operating system and is also distributed as open source on the Apple website.