Programming a chess game in VB? Any help appreciated!

I'm currently trying to program a chess game for my EPQ, but I'm really struggling on how to actually set up the board. Should I use pictureboxes, or is there a way the board can be automatically created upon a click? Any help would be really appreciated, I'm just not sure of the exact direction I need to take in regards to setting up my chess board!!!

Many thanks
-shmelissas

Reply 1

vanguardsean

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PictureBoxes are probably the best way to handle the chess board GUI. I would just get a picture of a chessboard and display it through a picture box.
Also, you will need to figure out:
How to handle the chessboard internally in your code e.g (1D array / 2D array or something different?)
If you use a PictureBox, how will you tell which chess piece a user moves
How can you check if the user performed a legal move?

I just finished my Comp Sci A2 project, which coincidently was also chess. So I can help if you need anything else.

Reply 2

Ay04Kay

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Original post by vanguardsean

PictureBoxes are probably the best way to handle the chess board GUI. I would just get a picture of a chessboard and display it through a picture box.
Also, you will need to figure out:
How to handle the chessboard internally in your code e.g (1D array / 2D array or something different?)
If you use a PictureBox, how will you tell which chess piece a user moves
How can you check if the user performed a legal move?

I just finished my Comp Sci A2 project, which coincidently was also chess. So I can help if you need anything else.

hey, how did you code your project?

Reply 3

vanguardsean

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Original post by Ay04Kay

hey, how did you code your project?

I ended up doing it in Java, you can see it here: https://youtu.be/R3mEeItpvO8
https://github.com/seanjparker/chess

Programming a chess game in VB? Any help appreciated!

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