For the Unicode block with heterodox chess symbols, see Chess Symbols.
Font depictions of Unicode chess symbols (in the same order as the table). 1st: DejaVu Sans; 2nd: FreeSerif; 3rd: Quivira; 4th: Pecita.GNU Chess using Unicode chess characters to display a chess board in the terminal.
Chess symbols are part of Unicode. Instead of using images, one can represent chess pieces by characters that are defined in the Unicode character set. This makes it possible to:
Use figurine algebraic notation, which replaces the letter that stands for a piece by its symbol, e.g. ♘c6 instead of Nc6. This enables the moves to be read independent of language (the letter abbreviations of pieces in algebraic notation vary from language to language).
Produce the symbols using a text editor or word processor rather than a graphics editor.
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.[1]
Unicode version 12.0 has allocated a whole character block at 0x1FA00 for inclusion of extra chess piece representations. This includes rotated pieces, neutral (neither white nor black) pieces, knighted pieces, equihoppers, and xiangqi pieces.[2] Shatranj pieces have been provisionally assigned for a future version.[3][4]
^"Test for Unicode support in Web browsers".
^"Chess Symbols" (PDF). unicode.org. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
^Bala, Gavin Jared; Miller, Kirk (22 December 2023). "Unicode request for shatranj symbols" (PDF). unicode.org. Unicode. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
^Unicode. "Proposed New Characters: The Pipeline". unicode.org. The Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
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