The Custom Chess Symbols Toolbar of OoChess

The Chess Symbols Toolbar

 

The Chess Symbols Toolbar deals only with chess symbols.

Many chess publications with a global audience make extensive use of chess symbols for their annotated games. Of particular note are the chess publications by Chess Informant. The Alpine fonts have an extensive collection of these chess symbols and many more. The Marroquin FigurineSymbolTx fonts also have a great many chess symbols. To use these chess symbols in OoChess is simply a matter of clicking on the icon for the symbol you want.

The most common chess symbols are available directly on the Chess Symbol Toolbar.

 

For extended chess symbols, you can click on any of the three chess symbol group icons:

Each of these icons will bring up a dialog of extended chess symbols. These icons, from left to right, are the Informant, NIC (New In Chess) and USCF Symbols. These are described below.

The first icon brings up a dialog of the extended Informant chess symbols that you can choose from:

The second icon brings up a dialog of the extended NIC chess symbols that you can choose from:

 The third icon brings up a dialog of he extended USCF chess symbols that you can choose from:

For the Marroquin Template, there is another group of symbols that can be accessed through the Other Symbols icon:

This brings up the Other Symbols:

 

Two additional Symbols – White and Black Box

At the very end of the Chess Symbols Toolbar you'll find two additional symbol characters:

These are not really chess symbols, although the White Box could be mistaken for the Informant symbol which means “Only Move.” The two box symbols are taken from the Webdings font, a very common font that comes with the Windows OS. These box characters are frequently used in chess literature, so they have been added to the symbols toolbar for convenience. Below is just one example of how you might use these symbols: