Chess Symbols is a
Unicode block
A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes (code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the ...
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
Xiangqi (; ), commonly known as Chinese chess or elephant chess, is a Strategy game, strategy board game for two players. It is the most popular board game in China. Xiangqi is in the same family of games as shogi, janggi, chess, Western ches ...
(Chinese chess).
Block
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Chess Symbols block:
See also
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Chess symbols in Unicode
Unicode has text representations of chess pieces. These allow to produce the symbols using plain text without the need of a graphics interface. The inclusion of the chess symbols enables the use of figurine algebraic notation, which replace ...
References
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Unicode blocks
Unicode blocks with characters for games
Xiangqi
Fairy chess