Regular chess symbols, the basic six pieces in black and white (as part of Unicode block Miscellaneous Symbols), and.A couple of words for chess players:) Chess. In Unicode, chess symbols are in two groups: Russian Chess Vocabulary Slow Russian with English subtitles. This standard points to several new characters being created in this block, including rotated pieces and neutral (neither white nor black) pieces. Unicode version 12.0 has allocated a whole character block at 0x1FA00 for inclusion of extra chess piece representations. Both values are relative to the moving player. In order to display or print these symbols, a device must have one or more fonts with good Unicode support installed, and the document (Web page, word processor document, etc.) it is displaying must use one of these fonts. The book The Chess of China describes a move notation method in which the ranks of the board are numbered 1 to 10 from closest to farthest away, followed by a digit 1 to 9 for files from right to left. Produce the symbols using a text editor or word processor rather than a graphics editor.

This enables the moves to be read independent of language (the letter abbreviations of pieces in algebraic notation vary from language to language).

Use figurine algebraic notation, which replaces the letter that stands for a piece by its symbol, e.g.

Instead of using images, one can represent chess pieces by characters that are defined in the Unicode character set. GNU Chess using Unicode chess characters to display a chess board in the terminal.Ĭhess symbols are part of Unicode. 1st: DejaVu Sans 2nd: FreeSerif 3rd: Quivira 4th: Pecita. Font depictions of Unicode chess symbols (in the same order as the table).

To play chess, you need to know the names of the pieces and how they move. For the Unicode block with heterodox chess symbols, see Chess Symbols. Chess is a game of strategy that has been played for centuries.

Name chess pieces