| 国际象棋 | guó jì xiàng qí | chess / CL:副[fu4] |  |
| 西洋棋 | xī yáng qí | chess | |
| 招数 | zhāo shù | move (in chess, on stage, in martial arts) / gambit / trick / scheme / movement / same as 著數|着数[zhao1 shu4] |  |
| 象棋 | xiàng qí | Chinese chess / CL:副[fu4] | |
| 博弈 | bó yì | games (such as chess, dice etc) / gambling / contest | |
| 老将 | lǎo jiàng | lit. old general / commander-in-chief 將帥|将帅, the equivalent of king in Chinese chess / fig. old-timer / veteran | |
| 棋子 | qí zǐ | chess piece / CL:個|个[ge4],顆|颗[ke1] / (fig.) a pawn (used by others for their own purposes) | |
| 绝杀 | jué shā | to deal the fatal blow (sports, chess etc) / to score the winning point | |
| 下棋 | xià qí | to play chess | |
| 棋手 | qí shǒu | chess player | |
| 夹击 | jiā jī | pincer attack / attack from two or more sides / converging attack / attack on a flank / fork in chess, with one piece making two attacks | |
| 丁丁 | zhēng zhēng | sound of chopping wood, chess pieces hitting the board etc | |
| 妙手 | miào shǒu | miraculous hands of a healer / highly skilled person / brilliant move in chess or weiqi (go) 圍棋|围棋 | |
| 国手 | guó shǒu | (sports) member of the national team / national representative / (medicine, chess etc) one of the most highly skilled practitioners in one's country | |
| 将帅 | jiàng shuài | commander-in-chief, the equivalent of king in Chinese chess | |
| 夹攻 | jiā gōng | attack from two sides / pincer movement / converging attack / attack on a flank / fork in chess, with one piece making two attacks | |
| 对局 | duì jú | opposing sides (in chess etc) / position (of opposing forces) | |
| 对弈 | duì yì | to play go, chess etc | |
| 星罗棋布 | xīng luó qí bù | scattered about like stars in the sky or chess pieces on a board (idiom) / spread all over the place | |
| 棋艺 | qí yì | chess skill | |
| 着数 | zhāo shù | move (in chess, on stage, in martial arts) / gambit / trick / scheme / movement / same as 招數|招数[zhao1 shu4] | |
| 棋王 | qí wáng | chess champion | |
| 军棋 | jūn qí | land battle chess, Chinese board game similar to Stratego | |
| 终局 | zhōng jú | endgame / conclusion / outcome / final part of a chess game | |
| 马 |  mǎ | horse / CL:匹[pi3] / horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess / knight in Western chess | |
| 和棋 | hé qí | draw or tie in chess etc / CL:盤|盘[pan2] | |
| 逼和 | bī hé | to force a draw (in chess, competition etc) | |
| 将棋 | jiàng qí | Japanese chess (shōgi) | |
| 象棋赛 | xiàng qí sài | Chinese chess tournament | |
| 盘 | pán | plate / dish / tray / board / hard drive (computing) / to build / to coil / to check / to examine / to transfer (property) / to make over / classifier for food: dish, helping / to coil / classifier for coils of wire / classifier for games of chess | |
| 卒 | zú | soldier / servant / to finish / to die / finally / at last / pawn in Chinese chess | |
| 仕 | shì | to serve as an official / an official / the two chess pieces in Chinese chess guarding the "general" or "king" 將|将[jiang4] | |
| 棋局 | qí jú | state of play in a game of chess / (old) chessboard | |
| 白子 | bái zǐ | white Go chess piece / bee pupa / albino | |
| 棋赛 | qí sài | chess game | |
| 罫 | guà | squares of a chess board | |
| 象赛 | xiàng sài | chess tournament | |
| 待诏 | dài zhào | expert in a specialized field such as medicine, divination or chess, available on call to the emperor (in the Tang and Song dynasties) | |
| 徐俊 | Xú Jùn | Xu Jun (1962-), Chinese Chinese chess grandmaster | |
| 国棋 | guó qí | abbr. for 國際象棋|国际象棋, chess | |
| 国际棋联 | guó jì qí lián | International Chess Federation | |
| 棋具 | qí jù | checkers (board and pieces for go 圍棋|围棋 / or Chinese chess 象棋 / etc) | |
| 着棋 | zhuó qí | to play chess | |
| 着法 | zhāo fǎ | move in chess / movement in martial arts | |
| 世界国际象棋联合会 | | World Chess Federation | |
