A chess diagram is graphic representation of a position in a
chess
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ...
game, using standardised symbols. 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.
Forsyth-Edwards Notation (FEN) can be used to represent a position without graphics, i.e. with letters and numbers only.
Examples
File:Luis Ramirez de Lucena, arte de ajedrez.jpg, Lucena (1497)
File:Die Gartenlaube (1860) b 464.jpg, ''Die Gartenlaube
''Die Gartenlaube – Illustriertes Familienblatt'' (; ) was the first successful mass-circulation German newspaper and a forerunner of all modern magazines.Sylvia Palatschek: ''Popular Historiographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries'' (Oxford: ...
'' (1860)
File:Alice_Chess_Puzzle.jpg, ''Through the Looking Glass
''Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There'' (also known as ''Alice Through the Looking-Glass'' or simply ''Through the Looking-Glass'') is a novel published on 27 December 1871 (though indicated as 1872) by Lewis Carroll and the ...
'' by Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet and mathematician. His most notable works are '' Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (1865) and its sequ ...
(1871)
File:Brockhaus_and_Efron_Encyclopedic_Dictionary_b31_150-0.jpg, '' Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary'' (1890-1907)
File:Sixday.jpg, Page from a Soviet calendar (1935)
Further reading
* {{citation
, last=Hooper , first=David , authorlink=David Vincent Hooper
, last2=Whyld , first2=Kenneth , authorlink2=Kenneth Whyld
, title=
The Oxford Companion to Chess
''The Oxford Companion to Chess'' is a reference book on the game of chess written by David Vincent Hooper and Kenneth Whyld. The book is written in an encyclopedia format. The book belongs to the Oxford Companions series.
Details
The first e ...
, year=1992
, edition=2nd
, page=108
, publisher=Oxford University Press
, isbn=0-19-280049-3
External links
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