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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.
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.
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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).
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6. Moves may be interspersed with commentary, called annotations. When the game score resumes with a Black move, an ellipsis (...) fills the position of the White move, for example: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 White attacks the black e-pawn. 2... Nc6 Black defends and develops simultaneously. 3. Bb5 White plays the Ruy Lopez. 3 ...
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[3] [4] [5] The U.S. Chess Federation prefers the use of algebraic notation but still permits descriptive notation. [6] Long algebraic notation includes the starting file and rank of the piece. Short algebraic notation omits the starting file and rank of the piece, unless it is necessary to disambiguate the move.
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.