Chess NAGs
While I was writing last week's post, Informant No.1, Game No.1, I included an awkward explanation:-
A '?' on Black's 9th leads to a plus-over-minus on White's 10th, which is awarded a '!'. A couple of White's subsequent moves are also awarded a '!', after which Black is lost.
Certain that there must be a better way to use the 'plus-over-minus' notation, I discovered Wikipedia's page Numeric Annotation Glyphs, which equates various chess notation symbols to Unicode. Here's a table of the relevant symbols and codes.
‼ | 8252 | '‼' vs. '!!' |
⁇ | 8263 | '⁇' vs. '??' |
⁉ | 8265 | '⁉' vs. '!?' |
⁈ | 8264 | '⁈' vs. '?!' |
□ | 9633 | Wikipedia shows '9632' (which is ■) |
∞ | 8734 | See also Unclear Positions (and follow ups) |
⩲ | 10866 | |
⩱ | 10865 | |
± | 177 | |
∓ | 8723 | |
⨀ | 10752 | |
⟳ | 10227 | |
→ | 8594 | |
↑ | 8593 | |
∆ | 8710 | |
⌓ | 8979 | |
⇔ | 8660 | |
⇗ | 8663 | |
⟫ | 10219 | |
⟪ | 10218 | |
✕ | 10005 | |
⊥ | 8869 |
Now here's the same awkward explanation using Unicode:-
A '?' on Black's 9th leads to a '±' on White's 10th, which is awarded a '!'. A couple of White's subsequent moves are also awarded a '!', after which Black is lost.
Looks good, but more trials necessary... Thanks, Wikipedia!
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