Chess diagram
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Achess diagramis graphic representation of a position in achessgame, 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 theirchessboardor computer. The symbols used generally resemble the pieces of the standardStaunton 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.
Examples
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Lucena (1497)
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Die Gartenlaube(1860)
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Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary(1890-1907)
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Page from a Soviet calendar (1935)
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Font used byB.T. Batsfordand other chess publishers in the 1970s
Further reading
[edit]- Hooper, David;Whyld, Kenneth(1992),The Oxford Companion to Chess(2nd ed.), Oxford University Press, p. 108,ISBN0-19-280049-3
External links
[edit]- "Alfil con yelmo 01 / Diagrama de ajedrez."m3c4n0, November 16, 2015, Flickr.