How to make a chessboard in Excel

3 · John Cook · Aug. 18, 2021, 11:26 a.m.
I needed to make an image of a chessboard for the next blog post, and I’m not very good at image editing, so I make one using Excel. There are Unicode characters for chess pieces— white king is U+2654, etc.—and so you can make a chessboard out of (Unicode) text. ♔♕♖♗♘♙♚♛♜♝♞♟ I placed the character […] The post How to make a chessboard in Excel first appeared on John D. Cook....