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Unicode 15.1 specifies a total of 110 spread across two blocks. The standard set of chess pieces—king, queen, rook, bishop, knight, or pawn, with white and black variants—were included in the block Miscellaneous Symbols. In Unicode 12.0, the Chess Symbols block (U+1FA00–U+1FA6F) was allocated for inclusion of extra chess piece ...
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).
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.
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 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.
English: Below goes the most stripped source code that works with LibreOffice 6.4.6.2 and newer, after copying it to a "Chess symbols.fodt" file. The fonts DejaVu LGC Sans (or DejaVu Sans), FreeSerif, Pecita and Quivira must be installed so the document renders properly. Tabs are needed because the Pecita typeface has a very large default space ...
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Non-capturing move: A move without capture is notated by the piece's name, a hyphen and the destination square, e.g. Kt–QB3 (knight to queen's bishop 3) and P–QN4 (pawn to queen's knight 4). Capture : A capture is notated by the piece's name, a cross (×), and the name of the piece captured, e.g. Q×N (queen captures knight).