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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.
This glossary of chess explains commonly used terms in chess, in alphabetical order.Some of these terms have their own pages, like fork and pin.For a list of unorthodox chess pieces, see Fairy chess piece; for a list of terms specific to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems; for a list of named opening lines, see List of chess openings; for a list of chess-related games, see List of ...
A piece in a chess problem that is legally placed and could only have been created through promotion. It does not include pieces promoted after the initial problem position. orthochess Synonym for orthodox chess. [5] orthodox chess Chess according to FIDE's The Official Laws of Chess; [6] see Rules of chess.
The knight (♘, ♞) is a piece in the game of chess, represented by a horse's head and neck.It moves two squares vertically and one square horizontally, or two squares horizontally and one square vertically, jumping over other pieces.
Font depictions of Unicode chess symbols (in the same order as the table): DejaVu Sans, FreeSerif, Quivira, Pecita. 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.
Staunton style chess pieces. Left to right: king, rook, queen, pawn, knight, bishop. The rules of chess (also known as the laws of chess) govern the play of the game of chess. Chess is a two-player abstract strategy board game. Each player controls sixteen pieces of six types on a chessboard. Each type of piece moves in a distinct way.
Chess diagrams are widely used in chess publications as an aid to visualisation, or to aid the readers to verify that they are looking at the correct position on their chessboard or computer. The symbols used generally resemble the pieces of the standard Staunton chess set, although a number of different fonts have been used over the centuries.