Editing Chess symbols in Unicode (section)

{{short description|Text characters representing chess pieces}}
{{Use American English|date=August 2024}}
{{For|the Unicode block with heterodox chess symbols|Chess Symbols}}
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[[File:Chess symbols.svg|thumb|alt=Refer to caption|Font depictions of Unicode chess symbols (in the same order as the table): [[DejaVu fonts|DejaVu Sans]], [[GNU FreeFont|FreeSerif]], Quivira, Pecita.]]
[[File:GNU Chess on macOS.png|thumb|alt=A screenshot of the GNU Chess program in graphic mode showing the chessboard with Unicode characters.|[[GNU Chess]] using Unicode chess characters to display a chess board in the terminal.]]

[[Unicode]] has text representations of [[chess piece]]s. 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 [[Long algebraic notation|figurine algebraic notation]], which replaces the letter that stands for a piece by its symbol, e.g. ♘c6 instead of Nc6. This also allows the play of chess games in text-only environments, such as the [[Computer terminal|terminal]].