Aruacanian-Mapuche. Chile.
The study of neighbouring cultures can throw some light on the Inca games. The Mapuches - formerly called Araucanians - were influenced by the Incas. Fortunately, Mapuche games were described in more detail than the Inca ones. No surprise if the same kind of pyramidal die is to be observed, here called kechu (Mapuche "five"). Under the name kechukawe the Mapuches played two different games with the same die: a game whose object was to throw a die through a perched ring, and a board game which appears to be very similar to the Inca race game wayru, as observed in the 1960's in Southern Ecuador. The Mapuches knew a "hunt game" that they called komikan: it is the same as the Inca taptana/komina...
http://www.boardgamesstudies.org/studies/issue1/article.shtml?depaulis.txt
well, maybe not exactly chess, but...
"Not chess -- Poker!"