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Paper airplane icon in lobby; pawns looking identical

New here. Thanks in advance and apologies if these are easy to find the answer and I didn't look hard enough.

In the lobby, many correspondence have a paper airplane icon. Didn't see this icon in the variants. The standard rules has a king icon elsewhere. Is the airplane standard too?

Pawns on both sides look identical on my device. Can we change how they look? Can typically remember whose pawns in my games and can touch to verify, but when viewing a match in progress, unknown until it moves or is captured.

New here. Thanks in advance and apologies if these are easy to find the answer and I didn't look hard enough. In the lobby, many correspondence have a paper airplane icon. Didn't see this icon in the variants. The standard rules has a king icon elsewhere. Is the airplane standard too? Pawns on both sides look identical on my device. Can we change how they look? Can typically remember whose pawns in my games and can touch to verify, but when viewing a match in progress, unknown until it moves or is captured.

@pmpsoft said ^

In the lobby, many correspondence have a paper airplane icon.

The paper airplane icon is for correspondence games :)

@pmpsoft said [^](/forum/redirect/post/aXrKgETE) > In the lobby, many correspondence have a paper airplane icon. The paper airplane icon is for correspondence games :)

@pmpsoft said ^

Pawns on both sides look identical on my device. Can we change how they look?

You can change the piece set by clicking your username, then going to 'piece set.'

Screenshot 2026-09-23 170439.png

@pmpsoft said [^](/forum/redirect/post/aXrKgETE) > Pawns on both sides look identical on my device. Can we change how they look? You can change the piece set by clicking your username, then going to 'piece set.' ![Screenshot 2026-09-23 170439.png](https://image.lichess1.org/display?fmt=png&h=0&op=resize&path=PFJt4EhFN_hx.png&w=185&sig=1dfd4dccc0ace77cb3944be1dd33975dd67f1efa)

Thank you very much for the quick replies! Didn't want to make a challenge request for a correspondence game until knowing what I was getting into.

Successfully changed to a different piece set by going where your helpful screen shot showed!

Thank you very much for the quick replies! Didn't want to make a challenge request for a correspondence game until knowing what I was getting into. Successfully changed to a different piece set by going where your helpful screen shot showed!

Screenshot 2026-09-23 9.15.44 PM.png
Excuse me?

![Screenshot 2026-09-23 9.15.44 PM.png](https://image.lichess1.org/display?op=noop&path=TgihckIXjKvG.png&sig=73a8d1534651bc6d14f8b4533167bffbf9105e34) Excuse me?

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