Chess is one of the clearest dream symbols of strategy and foresight. It is read as a situation where you are thinking several moves ahead, or feel outmanoeuvred by someone else.
When this appeared in your dream, what were you feeling?
My Cosmic Code has a private dream journal. Write a dream down and the app picks out the symbols in it, shows what dream books say about them and, over time, which words recur across your entries. The journal is stored on your device only.