Chess (= Schach) mehr als nur ein Spiel

Wenn man in Portalen und Suchmaschinen nach wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten zu Schach sucht und den englischen Begriff „Chess“ eingibt, dann werden Tausende und aber Tausende Treffer angezeigt. Welche Relevanz haben diese Treffer bezüglich der Suchanfrage? Beim genaueren Hinsehen stellt man fest, dass der Schein trügt.

Das Vorhandensein relevanter Begriffe zu Schach im Text reicht, um in den Ergebnislisten zu erscheinen. „Chess“ ist ebenfalls ein Nachname, der in den USA mehr als 2000 Mal vorkommt (Link). Klar, dass auch Autoren wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten den Namen „Chess“ tragen.

Die fünf Buchstaben C-H-E-S-S, also Chess, erfreuen sich als Akronym (bzw. als Abkürzung) für Projekte, Programme und Geräte großer Beliebtheit. In den allermeisten Fällen gibt es keine Verbindung zum Schachspiel. Hier eine Auswahl, wofür CHESS als Akronym steht:

1. 1. 1. Addiction – Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System – A-CHESS
    2. California Higher Education Student Summit – CHESS
    3. Calculating Chemical Equilibria in Soils and Solutions – CHESS
    4. Calvin and Hobbes Extensive Strip Search – -C.H.E.S.S
    5. Cambridge Home and European Scholarship Scheme – CHESS
    6. Canadian Health Education Specialists Society CHESS
    7. Canadian Hospital Executive Simulation System – CHESS
    8. Care Home Education Support Service – CHESS
    9. Care Home Effective Support Service – CHESS
    10. Carolina’s Health Electronic Surveillance System – CHESS
    11. Cellular High-throughput Encapsulation Solubilization and Screening – CHESS
    12. CEN Horizontal European Service Standardization – CHESS
    13. Center for Health and the Social Sciences – CheSS
    14. Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies – CHESS
    15. Center for High Energy Systems and Sciences – CHESS
    16. Center for Higher Education and Science Studies – CHESS
    17. Center for Historical Enquiry and the Social Sciences – CHESS
    18. Center for Human Enhanced Secure Systems – CHESS
    19. Center for Human-Environment System Sustainability – CHESS
    20. Center for Hybrid and Embedded Software Systems – CHESS
    21. Center for the Humanities Engaging Science and Society – CHESS
    22. Centocor: HA-1A Efficacy in Septic Shock – CHESS
    23. Central heating system specifications – CHeSS
    24. Centre for Health Economics at STAKES – CHESS
    25. Centre for Health Equity Studies – CHESS
    26. Centre for Health Systems Strengthening – CHESS
    27. Centre for Humanities Engaging Science and Society – CHESS
    28. Centreville Homeschool Enrichment Support Services – CHESS
    29. Certificate of Higher Education in Social Sciences – CHESS
    30. ChaMP Extended Stellar Survey – ChESS
    31. Changes in Health, End-Stage Disease, Signs, and Symptoms Scale – CHESS Scale
    32. Changing Health Systems – CHESS
    33. Changing Horizon Efficient Set Search – CHESS
    34. Channelizer Engine for Sonet/SDH – CHESS
    35. CHase Encirclement Stress Studies – CHESS
    36. Chebyshev Sparse Solvers – CheSS
    37. Checklist for Evaluation of Somatic Symptoms – CHESS
    38. ChemAxon Extended Support Service – CHESS
    39. Chemical Engineering Students Society – ChESS
    40. Chemical Health Environment Safety Systems – CHESS
    41. Chemical HErschel Surveys of Star – CHESS
    42. Chemical Safety System – CheSS
    43. Chemical Shift Selective – CHESS
    44. Chemically Selective Saturation – CHESS
    45. CHemistry-based Expert System Shell – CHESS
    46. Chemosynthetic Ecosystems – ChEss
    47. Cherenkov / Scintillation Separation – CheSS
    48. CHerenkov and Electromagnetic Shower Simulator – CHESS
    49. Chernobyl Simulation System – CHESS
    50. CHESS (CgHExpreSS) – is a tool for investigating disease specific genomic alterations and quantitative relationships between those genomic alterations and genome-wide gene expression profiling
    51. CHESS Center – Institute of Portal Hypertension, The First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
    52. Chess Helping Enhance Student Skills – C.H.E.S.S.
    53. CHESS method – C Claim (state a preliminary opinion), H Hierarchy (of supporting evidence), E Exposure (examine for), S Study (and revise), S Synthesize (a revised opinion)
    54. Chess-board Extraction by Subtraction and Summation – ChESS
    55. Chicago Health Event Surveillance System – CHESS
    56. Chief Housewares Executive Supersession – CHESS
    57. Child Health and Environment Save Society Nepal – CHESS Nepal
    58. Child Health Ecological Surveillance System – CHESS
    59. Child Health Electronic Surveillance System – CHESS
    60. Children’s Hospital Education Specialists Symposium – CHESS
    61. Children’s Hybrid Enhanced Surgical Services – CHESS
    62. Children Education Saving Scheme – CHESS
    63. Children With Epilepsy In Sussex Schools – CHESS
    64. Chinese Embolic Stroke Score – CHESS
    65. Christian Home Education Support Service – CHESS
    66. Churches Homeless Emergency Support Scheme – CHESS
    67. Chronic Headache Education and Self-management Study – CHESS
    68. Chronic Hydrocephalus Ensuing from SAH Score – CHESS
    69. ChroniSense National Early Warning Score Study – CHESS
    70. CHronological Information Extraction SyStem – CHESS
    71. City Higher Education Seminar Series – CHESS
    72. Clean Healthy Educated Safe & Sustainable – CHESS
    73. Clearing House Electronic Subregister System – CHESS
    74. Climate, Human and Earth System Sciences – CHESS
    75. Climate, Hydrochemistry and Economics of Surface-water Systems – CHESS
    76. Climate hydrology and ecology research support system – CHESS
    77. Clinical Health Economics System Simulation – CHESS
    78. Clinical Hepatic Encephalopathy Staging Scale – CHESS
    79. Clustered hybrid energy-aware cooperative spectrum sensing – CHESS
    80. Coalition of Higher Education Students in Scotland – CHESS
    81. Coenergy Hybrid Energy Storage System – CHESS
    82. Coffs Harbour Employment Support Service – CHESS
    83. Cogent Heat Energy Storage Systems – CHESS
    84. Collaborative for Higher Education Shared Services – CHESS
    85. College Health and Environmental Safety Society – CHESS
    86. College of History, Education and Social Sciences – CHESS
    87. Colorado Heritage Education School System – CHESS
    88. Colorado High-resolution Echelle Stellar Spectrograph – CHESS
    89. Commonwealth Higher Education Support Scheme – CHESS
    90. Commander HandhEld Support System – CHESS
    91. Community Health and Environmental Surveillance System – CHESS
    92. Community Health Education and Social Services – CHESS
    93. Community Health Environment Scan Survey – CHESS
    94. Community Homeschool Enrichment Support Services – CHESS
    95. Comparative HDL Efficacy and Safety Study – CHESS
    96. Comparison of Hi-C Experiments using Structural Similarity – CHESS
    97. Complete Health, Environmental & Safety Services – CHESS
    98. Composite Hull Embedded Sensor System – CHESS
    99. Composition with guarantees for high-integrity embedded software components assembly – CHESS-project
    100. Comprehensive Headlamp Environment Systems Simulation – CHESS
    101. Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System – CHESS
    102. Comprehensive Health and Epidemiological Surveillance System – CHESS
    103. Comprehensive Human Expressed SequenceS – CHESS
    104. Computer Hardware, Enterprise Software and Solutions – CHESS
    105. Computerized Herd Evaluation Systems for Sows – CHESS
    106. Condensing Heat Exchanger for Space Systems – CHESS
    107. Conergy Hybrid Energy Storage System – CHESS
    108. Configuration Health Scoring System – CHeSS
    109. Connected HEalth Sustaining home Stay in Dementia – CHESS
    110. Connecticut Housing Engagement and Support Services – CHESS
    111. Consortium for Higher Education Software Services – CHESS
    112. Consortium of Higher Education Support Services – CHESS
    113. Convergence Hub for the Exploration of Space Science – CHESS
    114. Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source – CHESS
    115. Cornerstone Health Enablement Strategic Solutions – CHESS
    116. Correlated Hopping Enhanced Spread Spectrum – CHESS
    117. Cost of Haemophilia in Europe: a Socioeconomic Survey – CHESS
    118. Council for Health and Environmental Safety of Soils – CHESS
    119. COVID-19 Hospitalisation in England Surveillance System – CHESS
    120. Critical Health Education Studies – CHESS
    121. Cultural Heritage Experiences through Socio-personal interactions and Storytelling – CHESS
    122. Culture and Heritage in European Societies and Spaces – CHESS
    123. Cutler-Hammer Engineering Services and Systems – CHESS
    124. Early Childhood Epilepsy Severity Scale – E-Chess
    125. Research School on Changing Climates in the coupled Earth System – CHESS