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Sadly, these are not in boldface. I saw no difference in stroke size when I enlarged these on my iPad, and testing a screen shot in Ultimate Paint confirmed that they matched the regular characters but not the bold characters.

I found a method for creating bold pieces without simply entering bold text. After entering normal text, I can change the stroke width. Under Fill and Stroke, I select flat color under Stroke Paint, and I increase the width under Stroke Style. The problem with this method is that when I paint parts of the character, it increases the stroke width of the painted section a second time. This has unintended consequences when I tried doing this in an image with an image I didn't want to increase the stroke width of. I made these images with this method:

While writing this, it occurred to me that I can increase stroke width and then paint a section to increase its stroke width. So I tried this on a normal Queen SVG that no longer had text in it, and got a bold Queen. This will allow me to increase the boldness of my normal weight pieces as I need to when using smaller versions of them. But it's too late to get started on that tonight.

Inkscape should allow you to specify or alter the stroke width for every element in the image separately.

When I was editing the SVGs I obtained from GitHub I noticed thar they were rather strange; the entire image just seemed to be one closed curve, highly folded to cross itself many times (creating some confusion on what was interior to be filled, and what was outside). So the black outlines of the image were not really elementary lines, but interior of a very thin curve filled with black. Even apparently disconnected elements (like the cross on the Bishops mitre) were part of this curve.

When I was editing the SVGs I obtained from GitHub I noticed thar they were rather strange; the entire image just seemed to be one closed curve, highly folded to cross itself many times (creating some confusion on what was interior to be filled, and what was outside). So the black outlines of the image were not really elementary lines, but interior of a very thin curve filled with black. Even apparently disconnected elements (like the cross on the Bishops mitre) were part of this curve.

That does seem strange. Maybe they were made by some method that translates raster images into vector images. I am taking the approach of recreating piece images rather than coverting old images, and it is treating visually separate parts of the image as separate objects.