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GNU Chess using Unicode chess characters to display a chess board in the terminal. Unicode has text representations of chess pieces. These allow to produce the symbols using plain text without the need of a graphics interface. The inclusion of the chess symbols enables the use of figurine algebraic notation, which replaces the letter that
Chess Symbols is a Unicode block containing characters for fairy chess and related notations beyond the basic Western chess symbols (U+2654 to U+265F) in the Miscellaneous Symbols block, as well as symbols representing game pieces for xiangqi (Chinese chess).
2. ^ Grey areas indicate non-chess symbols or non-assigned code points Template documentation [ view ] [ edit ] [ history ] [ purge ] {{ Unicode chart chess }} provides a list of single Unicode chess piece code points.
English: Four samples of Unicode symbols for Chess (U+2654-265F) with free and open source typefaces. Each pair represents a full symbol set. Each pair represents a full symbol set. The typefaces used are: DejaVu Sans; FreeSerif; Quivira; Pecita.
{{Unicode chart Chess Symbols}} This template does not take any parameters. The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Unicode chart/block documentation .
There are other symbols used by various chess engines and publications, such as Chess Informant and Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings, when annotating moves or describing positions. [8] Many of the symbols now have Unicode encodings, but quite a few still require a special chess font with appropriated characters.
The replacement character (often displayed as a black rhombus with a white question mark) is a symbol found in the Unicode standard at code point U+FFFD in the Specials table. It is used to indicate problems when a system is unable to render a stream of data to correct symbols.
Miscellaneous Symbols is a Unicode block (U+2600–U+26FF) containing glyphs representing concepts from a variety of categories: astrological, astronomical, chess, dice, musical notation, political symbols, recycling, religious symbols, trigrams, warning signs, and weather, among others.