Have you seen the chess symbol emoticons that you can use on MSN, Facebook, Gchat, Gmail? These symbols are chess pieces (both white and black chess symbols). You can also use the chess emoticons or chess smileys when you’re writing in skype chat, yahoo chat or AIM. Here they are:
Chess symbols and emoticons
♙ – White Pawn
♖ – White Rook
♗ – White Bishop
♘ – White Knight
♕ – White Queen
♔ – White King
Chess piece symbols
♟ – Black Pawn
♛ – Black Queen
♜ – Black Rook
♝ – Black Bishop
♞ – Black Knight
♚ – Black King