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Learning the movement is by far the easiest part of teaching beginners. It's fine as a design exercise, but its effect in making it easier to learn is close to null.

I have an overgrown dice pip renderer, so I made the rook "+", knight "L", bishop 4-gram, queen 8-gram, king octagon, and pawn a trapezoid (just to suggest movement direction). https://vezquex.github.io/clock/chess/

+1 for making the knights an L. The way it is, the pawns sort of look like knights

Agreed. Love the concept, but the knights definitely need clarity.

The L is an orthogonalist conspiracy theory. There's no right angles in the knight's movement, wake up sheeple!

https://twitter.com/graycrawford/status/1750248031784763639

Knight's movement is a "Γ" "Gamma" not an L. Some day a brilliant game may pop up, which has several letters and try to match em together, like an L, a Γ, an I and so on.