A chess diagram is graphic representation of a position in a chess 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.
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This diagram shows the opening position in a game of chess.
Forsyth-Edwards Notation (FEN) can be used to represent a position without graphics, i.e. with letters and numbers only.
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Examples
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Lucena (1497) -
Die Gartenlaube (1860) -
Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (1871) -
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (1890-1907) -
Page from a Soviet calendar (1935) -
Font used by B.T. Batsford and other chess publishers in the 1970s
Further reading
- Hooper, David; Whyld, Kenneth (1992), The Oxford Companion to Chess (2nd ed.), Oxford University Press, p. 108, ISBN 0-19-280049-3
External links
- "Alfil con yelmo 01 / Diagrama de ajedrez." m3c4n0, November 16, 2015, Flickr.
This page was last edited on 10 April 2024, at 23:15