What 🨭 means
It is a neutral fairy-chess piece, not a standard bishop move. “Neutral” means it belongs to neither White nor Black. In fairy chess—chess problems or games with nonstandard rules—the turn marks a variant piece but does not define its moves.
Its shape reflects an old printing workaround: in letterpress printing with metal type, printers turned chess-symbol type to mark altered pieces in nonstandard problems.
Why does the symbol need a key?
The variant’s key defines how the piece moves. The turned shape does not name one universal move, so check the key before interpreting a position or score.
A font without chess-symbol support may show 🨭 as a blank box, substitute another glyph, or leave it invisible. That changes its appearance, not the character encoded.
Specialist notation for fairy-chess problems; out of place in an ordinary game score.
Do not read the turn as a standard bishop move.
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsA neutral turned piece with the movement assigned by that variant.
Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Can I use 🨭 in an ordinary chess score?
No. It is a variant piece, not the standard bishop; use it in a score only when that variant’s key defines it.
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How to type or find 🨭
- Search it as
- turned bishop · fairy chess piece · neutral chess bishop · heterodox chess
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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