Chess (Windows XP)

chess, originally known as and in Windows Live Messenger as Chess Pieces, is a user account picture included in Windows XP and Windows Live Messenger, licensed from Corbis. It was taken by Mark Karrass, who also took several other images used in Windows XP. It depicts five chess pieces on a board. A high res version appears on Corbis CD Arts and Entertainment, and it is no longer commercially available anywhere except Photononstop. While the background was originally aqua, Microsoft recolored it to red for both XP and MSN/WLM; a few other XP user account pictures were also recolored from the original images.

While it was included in XP from build 2419 onwards, build 2475 oddly uses CHESS from Windows 3.0 in its place.