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Icon Clearinghouse 5

In Part One, we took a look at some of the most common pieces in variant chess. Part Two covered the theme of icons named for animals; Part Three covered military, clergy, and similar things; and Part Four examined the many variants on the six orthodox pieces.

Here's most everything else.

As with the rest of the Icon Clearinghouse, set the graphics directory to /membergraphics/MSiconclearinghouse/ if you want to use these.

Pieces

Most of the pieces here are not without a fitting category; it's just that their categories are so small that several can fit on one page.

Forward & Back

Several pieces move forward like one sort of orthodox piece or common variant piece, and backwards like another.

Forward/Backward Pieces
B\F Queen Bishop Knight Rook King/Prince
Queen See Part 1 None found

fknightbqueen

 None found None found
Bishop None found See Part 1

fknightbbishop

frookbbishop

 TBA
Knight

fqueenbknight

fbishopbnight

 See Part 1

frookbknight

fkingbknight

forwardprincebackwardsknight
Rook None found

fbishopbrook

fknightbrook

 See Part 1

forwardprincebackwardsrook
King/Prince None found

fbishopbking


fknightbking

frookbking

forwardrookbackwardsprince

 See Part 1

The names and specific moves of these pieces can vary from one game to another, particularly whether and how the piece moves sideways orthogonally.

That said, the most common pieces from this chart are on the King/Prince row: the Charging Bishop (fKbhK), Charging Knight (ffKbhK), and Charging Rook (fRbhK).

Shogi

These icons, while not specifically resembling shogi pieces, are designed for use with shogi and shogi-esque games.

Shogi Icons
Blind Monkey
(FsW)		 Blind Tiger
(FsbW)		 Chinese Cock
(fFsbW)		 Coiled Serpent
(vWbF)		 Copper General
(vWfF)

blindmonkey

blindtiger

chinesecock

coiledserpent

coppergeneral
Drunk Elephant
(FfsW)		 Evil Wolf
(fFfsW)		 Ferocious Leopard
(FvW)		 Gold General
(WfF)		 Iron General
(fhK)

drunkelephant

evilwolf

ferociousleopard

goldgeneral

irongeneral
Old Monkey
(FbW)		 Reclining Dragon
(WbF)		 Silver General
(FfW)		 Stone General
(fF)		 Tile General
(fFbW)

oldmonkey

recliningdragon

silvergeneral

stonegeneral

tilegeneral

General Symbols

Sometimes a simple digit or other symbol is all that's needed.

Tifinagh

Mostly on a whim, I designed several pieces based on letters of the Tifinagh (the Berber alphabet). There are several variants on that alphabet, and I didn't stick to just one; and I accept that few people will be interested in using them. Still, a few might find it interesting, at least theoretically.

Other Stuff

These are icons that don't fit neatly into any of the other categories.


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By Bob Greenwade.

Last revised by Bob Greenwade.


Web page created: 2023-12-17. Web page last updated: 2023-12-17

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