Hi! I need your help. I have to program a chess game in Delphi, but I don''t know how to do. I made a little engine which draws the white and black tiles and I made an algorythme which puts the pieces. The array which creates the pieces is of TImage. It looks like this: for x:= 0 to 7 do for y:= 0 to 7 do begin 1: begin Farmer[f]:=TImage.create(self); Farmer[f].parent:=board1.parent; with Farmer[f] do begin bringtofront; visible:=true; picture:=fs1.picture; width:=48; height:=48; tag:=f; whenclickedon:=Farmerwhenclickedon; end; end; Then I made the whenclickedon procedure for the Farmer which lokks like this: procedure TMainform.Farmerwhenclickedon(Sender: Tobject); var I: Integer; begin I:=TComponent(self).tag; showmessage(''Farmer number: '' + inttostr(I)); end; This gives the createnumber of the Farmer out. And thats where I don''t know what to do then.

Farmer? lol!

You seem to be neglecting a huge issue - chess is a very complicated game and the engine that drives the AI (I assume you want to have a single player mode - all chess programs do) is a very large undertaking.

You obviously would have to know ALOT about how to play chess to effectively code it.

Now if you wanted to do, say, CHECKERS - that might be something you could realistically achieve.

I love this line "I have to program a chess game in Delphi"

That would make a great signature quote!

(I''m guessing you have a class or something and they are asking you to do this just as far as showing the pieces and moving them around - if that is the case it looks like your next step would be to decide how to select by clicking where you want the piece to move to)

DSutherland

there is a series of articles on the site that goes through the various things needed to program a chess game but basically if u dont know how to play the game you cant code the game.
the ai is very complicated and most likely you dont want a dumb ai. you probably would want an ai that learns from its mistakes like most chess programs do.

Hi DSutherland! Do you think I''m an idiot! I ''ve never before made a real AI so I won''t do it for my chess game too. It will be for two players. I''m programming in Delphi since about 3 years but an AI for a chess game would be a bit to difficult for me, so I don''t do it.