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* The spy organization Checkmate in [[The DCU]], which classifies their agents by chess pieces and uses the White and Black sides to counteract each other.
* In ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club has chess piece-based titles for its members (such as Sebastian Shaw, the Black King, and Emma Frost, the former White Queen). See below for [[The Movie]].
* A one-off villain in ''[[Astro City]]'', the Red Queen, had chess-themed minions as part of her ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' motif. That said, they were based on designs stolen from the Chessmen of Astro City.▼
* A ''[[Dilbert]]'' strip has the [[Pointy-Haired Boss]] giving chess pieces to his underlings, symbolizing that they're "all on the same team". Unfortunately, he gives them all ''pawns''. He later quips, "I'm saving the rooks for bonus day."▼
** Another comic had Dilbert complain to his boss about being moved to a different cubicle with 'I bet another manager wants that cubicle. I bet we are all just pawn in your game.' It ended with the boss doing it anyway, and enforcing a new dresscode: Pawn-costumes. The dialogue at the end suggest that the PHB and another manager were playing an actual game of chess, using the cubicles as fields, and moving the employees as chesspieces by assigning them to new cubicles.▼
* Obadiah Stane was a big fan of these during his arc in ''[[Iron Man]]'', naming his mooks the Chessmen. An expensive chess set appears on his desk in the movie as a callback to this.
▲* A one-off villain in ''[[Astro City]]'', the Red Queen, had chess-themed minions as part of her ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' motif. That said, they were based on designs stolen from the Chessmen of Astro City.
* It shows up from time to time in early ''[[Excalibur (Comic Book)|Excalibur]]''.
* In Jim Steranko's memorable run on ''[[Nick Fury|Nick Fury Agent Of SHIELD]]'', SHIELD faced the [[Yellow Peril|Yellow Claw]] and his forces. The end of the arc revealed that [[Doctor Doom]] manipulated SHIELD and the Claw in an intricate game against an alien chess-playing computer called the Prime Mover.
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== Music ==
* "I've Seen All Good People", by Yes starts out with the section called "Your Move". The song features lyrics like:
{{quote|"Don't surround yourself with yourself. Move me on to any black square."}}
* "White Rabbit" by [[Jefferson Airplane]] contains a few direct references to the Chess Motifs used in ''[[Alice in Wonderland|Through the Looking Glass]].'' It's chess by way of ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?|by way of LSD.]]
* "Only a Pawn in Their Game" by [[Bob Dylan]] applies a chess metaphor to the slaying of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
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* "Knight Jumps Queen" from the album "Set the World on Fire" by Annihilator.
* [[Fiona Apple]]'s second album featured [[Long Title|an eight-line poem as its title]]. The first line of the poem reads, "When the pawn hits the conflicts he thinks like a king..."
▲== Newspaper Comics ==* A ''[[Dilbert]]'' strip has the [[Pointy-Haired Boss]] giving chess pieces to his underlings, symbolizing that they're "all on the same team". Unfortunately, he gives them all ''pawns''. He later quips, "I'm saving the rooks for bonus day."
▲** Another comic had Dilbert complain to his boss about being moved to a different cubicle with 'I bet another manager wants that cubicle. I bet we are all just pawn in your game.' It ended with the boss doing it anyway, and enforcing a new dresscode: Pawn-costumes. The dialogue at the end suggest that the PHB and another manager were playing an actual game of chess, using the cubicles as fields, and moving the employees as chesspieces by assigning them to new cubicles.
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