Commentary symbols

In chess there is a system of commentary that uses special symbols to annotate moves or positions. The advantage is that they can be read in any language and immediately understood by chessplayers all over the world.

CTRL-ALT-S starts the Symbol Palette

Start

The program knows all the international chess commentary symbols.

Symbols

Here are the most important ones:

Symbol	Meaning
!	Good move
!!	Very good move
?	Bad move
??	Very bad move, blunder
!?	Interesting move
?!	Dubious move
=	The position is about equal
²	White is slightly better
±	White is clearly better
+-	White is winning
³	Black is slightly better
µ	Black is clearly better
-+	Black is winning
ƒ	With attack
‚	With initiative
„	With counterplay

How to enter commentary symbols from the keyboard.