Wikipedia has some rationale: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_symbols_in_Unicode https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_symbols_in_Unicode Probably the mo

Wikipedia has some rationale: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_symbols_in_Unicode https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_symbols_in_Unicode Probably the most notable: > Use figurine algebraic notation, which replaces the letter that stands for a piece by its symbol, e.g. ♘c6 instead of Nc6. This enables the moves to be read independent of language (the letter abbreviations of pieces in algebraic notation vary from language to language).