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Commentary symbols

Commentary symbols

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When annotating chess games you can make use of a set of well-known language-independent commentary symbols. These consist of chess figurines (little piece symbols instead of letters) and evaluation symbols, all of which are given below. In ChessBase you can enter the symbols by right-clicking the notation, with the help of the annotation palette or with special keyboard shortcuts.

 

Hear is a list of the commentary symbols and what they mean:

 

!

Good move

 

Zugzwang

!!

Excellent move

 

Centre

!?

Interesting move

 

×

Weak point.

?!

Dubious move

 

Only move

?

Mistake

 

ª

with

??

Blunder

 

º

without

¢

King

 

«

Queenside

£

Queen

 

»

Kingside

¤

Knight

 

v

Endgame

¥

Bishop

 


Pair of bishops

¦

Rook

 

®

Bishops of opposite colour

§

Pawn

 

¯

Bishops of same colour

Attack

 

°

With compensation for material

ƒ

Initiative

 

±

White has the upper hand

Counterplay

 

²

White stands somewhat better

With the idea

 

÷

Unclear

Space

 

³

Black stands somewhat better

Zeitnot (time trouble)

 

µ

Black has the upper hand

Development

 

¹

Better is

File (line)

 

½

Draw

Diagonal

 

þ

Passed pawn.