Edwin Ralph Chess (February 12, 1913 – June 12, 2000) was a major general and Chief of Chaplains of the United States Air Force.

[1] Chess was originally commissioned an officer in the United States Army Reserve in 1942.

Edwin's brother Technical Sergeant Raymond Czeslawski was killed when the bomber in which he was a top turret gunner was downed by flak in Germany on May 8, 1944.

In 1948, Chess was recalled to active duty as a member of the United States Air Force.

Chess died in 2000 at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas.