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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 ...
A square is defined by the name of piece or empty parameter. The names of the pieces are those given in algebraic notation: k = king; q = queen; r = rook; b = bishop; n = knight; p = pawn; These letters are combined with either "l" for Light=White, or "d" for Dark=Black. So "kl" is White's king, and "nd" is Black's knight.
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In this chess set, the white pieces are tan in color. In chess, the player who moves first is called White and the player who moves second is called Black. Their pieces are the white pieces and the black pieces. The pieces are often not literally white and black, but usually contrasting light and dark colors.
A chess piece, or chessman, is a game piece that is placed on a chessboard to play the game of chess. It can be either white or black, and it can be one of six types: king, queen, rook, bishop, knight, or pawn. Chess sets generally come with sixteen pieces of each color.
This template is an SVG replacement for template:chess diagram and template:chaturanga diagram. To use, cut and paste one of the examples given below and replace the piece codes with the desired game position. The diagram heading and caption can be changed as desired or removed.
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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).