Documenting Unicode support for chess. I'm using New in Chess Yearbook 71 as a source what kind of characters there are. There are some problems: compensation (infinity over equals), I'm quite sure I've seen it somewhere in Unicode, but I couldn't spot it now. Pair of bishops is wrong, the squares should be white instead of black.
The right solution would possibly be using SVG for all this.
| Symbol | Codepoint | English |
|---|---|---|
| ♔ | U+2654 | White Chess King |
| ♕ | U+2655 | White Chess Queen |
| ♖ | U+2656 | White Chess Rook |
| ♗ | U+2657 | White Chess Bishop |
| ♘ | U+2658 | White Chess Knight |
| ♙ | U+2659 | White Chess Pawn |
| ♚ | U+265A | Black Chess King |
| ♛ | U+265B | Black Chess Queen |
| ♜ | U+265C | Black Chess Rook |
| ♝ | U+265D | Black Chess Bishop |
| ♞ | U+265E | Black Chess Knight |
| ♟ | U+265F | Black Chess Pawn |
| ⩲ | U+2A72 | White stands slightly better |
| ⩱ | U+2A71 | Black stands slightly better |
| ± | U+00B1 | White stands better |
| ∓ | U+2213 | Black stands better |
| +− | U+002B U-2216 | White has a desicive advantage |
| −+ | U-2216 U+002B | Black has a desicive advantage |
| = | U+003D | Balanced position |
| ∞ | U+221E | Unclear position |
| FIXME | FIXME | With compensation for the material – a symbol with ∞ over = is needed. This might be useful: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47437061/how-to-combine-two-unicode-symbols-to-create-a-new-symbol |
| > | U+003E | Strong |
| < | U+003C | Weak |
| ≥ | U+2265 | Better is |
| ≤ | U+2264 | Weaker is |
| ! | U+0021 | Good move |
| !! | ASCII | Excellent move |
| ? | ASCII | Bad move |
| ?? | ASCII | Blunder |
| !? | ASCII | Interesting move |
| ?! | ASCII | Dubious move |
| □ | U+25A1 | Only move |
| △ | U+25B3 | With the idea |
| ⭢ | U+2B62 | Attack |
| ⭡ | U+2B61 | Iniative |
| ⮅ | U+2B85 | Lead in development |
| ⮂ | U+2B82 | Counterplay |
| ◨ | U+25E8 | Kingside |
| ◧ | U+25E7 | Queenside |
| FIXME | FIXME | Space |
| FIXME | FIXME | Center |
| ⬀ | U+2B00 | Diagonal |
| ⬄ | U+2B04 | File |
| ▞ | U+259E | Pair of bishops – FIXME: but the squares should be white |
| ○○ | U+25CB U+25CB | Pawn structure |
| X | ASCII | Mate |
| N | ASCII | Novelty |
| EN | ASCII | Endgame |
| Z | ASCII | Zugzwang |
| T | ASCII | Time |
| – | U-8211 | See |
| RR | ASCII | Editorial comment |
| YB | ASCII | Yearbook |
| ch | ASCII | National championship |
| zt | ASCII | Zonal tournament |
| izt | ASCII | Interzonal tournament |
| ct | ASCII | Candidates tournament |
| ol | ASCII | Olympiad |
| m | ASCII | Match |
| cr | ASCII | Correspondence |
| jr | ASCII | Junior |