Travis Mayweather and Malcolm Reed play chess
Spherical chess during Spocks memory test
Chess is a board game played by two people, one controlling white pieces and the other controlling black.
In 2154, Ensign Travis Mayweather and Lieutenant Malcolm Reed played chess while inhabited by Organians. Lieutenant Reed told Ensign Mayweather that he was the best player of chess aboard the NX class starship Enterprise. (ENT: "Observer Effect")
By 2264, a three-dimensional variant had been devised and was available to the crew of the Constitution class USS Enterprise. (TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before")
Another variation of chess was used in Spock's memory test, which featured the game on a spherical grid. (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)
When the computer of the USS Enterprise-D was affected by nanites, it responded with "Pawn to King Three, Knight to Rook Four, Queen to Bishop Three" to an inquiry. (TNG: "Evolution")
According to Captain Jean-Luc Picard, dealing with the Romulan "is always like a chess game". (TNG: "The Defector")
On stardate 44390.1, two chess tournaments took place aboard the USS Enterprise-D. (TNG: "Data's Day")
One of the false memories planted into Geordi La Forge's brain after being brainwashed by the Romulans was of making second place in a chess tournament on Risa. (TNG: "The Mind's Eye")
Benjamin Sisko and Jadzia Dax played a game in early 2371. (DS9: "Equilibrium")
Types
Background Information
The script of "Empok Nor" described the Cardassian game of Kotra as being "a cross between chess and Stratego".
See also:
- Chess code