The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to chess:
Chess – two-player board game played on a chessboard (a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid). In a chess game, each player begins with sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns. The object of the game is to checkmate the opponent's king, whereby the king is under immediate attack (in "check") and there is no way to remove or defend it from attack.
Chess can be described as all of the following:
Chess Moves is a 1985 music video compilation for the musical Chess directed by David G. Hillier.
Chess Moves features five music videos of songs from the original Chess concept album. Chess lyricist Tim Rice provides introductions for each video.