Chess Symbols In Unicode
Chess symbols are part of Unicode.
Instead of using images, one can represent chess pieces by symbols 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 (Algebraic Chess Notation lists the different names and letter abbreviations of pieces in several languages).
- Produce the symbols using a text editor or word processor rather than a graphics editor.
In order to display or print these symbols, one has to have one or more fonts with good Unicode support installed on the computer, and the document (Web page, word processor document, etc.) must use one of these fonts.
Read more about Chess Symbols In Unicode: Unicode Codepoints and HTML
Famous quotes containing the words chess and/or symbols:
“The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head—no intricate game of chess where few moves are made in straight-forwardness and ends are attained by indirection, an oblique, tedious, barren game hardly worth that poor candle burnt out in playing it.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“And into the gulf between cantankerous reality and the male ideal of shaping your world, sail the innocent children. They are right there in front of us—wild, irresponsible symbols of everything else we can’t control.”
—Hugh O’Neill (20th century)