Chess games are recorded in a variety of notations — algebraic, descriptive, etc. But in addition to the raw sequence of moves, published games also get annotations: critical comments on the positions and choices that the players have made. To save space and promote international readability some commonly-recurrent themes have acquired typographic symbols:

Perhaps this code could be useful in ordinary writing!?

(see also CaissicMetaphors (8 Jan 2000), ChessChow (26 Sep 2001), HaikuChess (4 Jan 2002), LongThink (2002 Apr 9), ...)

TopicWriting - TopicRecreation - 2002-12-04

D'y'think ?!

written annotation on a haiku

(correlates: Chess Is an Ocean, TeachingZebras, ArsMagna, ...)