What 🨡 means
It marks a bishop-shaped piece whose moves the problem defines.
The turned bishop is a fairy-chess notation mark: the problem's legend gives its exact move. The turn does not name one universal rule.
Why turn a chess piece?
To mark an unfamiliar mover with a familiar chess shape.
Fairy-chess writers reuse familiar chess shapes for pieces with nonstandard moves. The idea predates digital notation: printers could rotate or invert metal chess type to make signs for heterodox problems, where pieces move outside standard chess rules. Chess-problem publications from 2012 and 2013 already show the convention.
Older problem publications also used rotated white forms for neutral pieces. Notation proposals from 2016 and 2017 show half-white, half-black forms for neutral pieces, separating neutrality from rotation.
What does it mean when someone sends this?
It points to a chess problem; the legend defines its moves.
On its own, the symbol does not tell you what the piece can do. Ask for the diagram's legend or the position it belongs to.
Specialist and diagrammatic; its exact role depends on the problem's key.
Do not assign it a universal bishop move.
What it means when someone sends it to you
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1Questions people ask
2Does the turned bishop always mean a grasshopper?
No. Grasshopper is an established name for the turned queen in fairy chess; this bishop's moves depend on its problem's key.
Why does it show as a box?
It can. The selected font draws the character; a font without chess-symbol coverage may show a box or fallback, and specialist diagram tools may need dedicated chess fonts.
How to type 🨡
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