You need a font that supports these symbols.

• http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/miscellaneous_symbols.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscellaneous_Symbols

Firefox uses the Free Serif font on my computer to display the chess symbols.

Yes. The obvious answer is that I need a font that supports these characters.

Your links to background information are informative, but what I need is: 1) a link to a font to install that (once installed) will successfully display the page I supplied the link to, and 2) information about any settings I have to change to allow similar pages to successfully display the example character automatically

Thanks for helping.

You can use a Google search to locate websites with a specific font.

• http://www.fonts2u.com/free-serif.font

Select Character map - Miscellaneous Symbols (191) to see what the chess symbols look like

Thanks for the sufficient details to allow me to find and download the font I needed.

You're welcome.