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charles dickens asked: I am sure she is moving the chess pieces when I am not looking.chess pieces

Star asked: So I know that in chess, a pawn can only move forwards and can only jump diagonally.
But I was wondering if other pieces can take a pawn straight on.
Like how a rook can only move straight. If a pawn is right next to a rook, the pawn cannot take the rook, [...]

proust_1922 asked: I’m relatively new to chess, meaning that I’ve known the rules of chess for a long time but I’ve never seriously looked into strategies of play or ways in which to increase my abilities until recently. I have been using a few books – ‘Logical Chess’ by Irving Chernev and ‘The Game [...]

Regional BLoKE asked: I would like to make a chess board on which I can play almost any chess variant using a rectangular board. Some examples:
http://www.chessvariants.org/historic.dir/acedrex.html
http://www.chessvariants.org/historic.dir/courier.html
http://www.chessvariants.com/d.photo/taishogi/taipic.html
Considering that I can make any number of pieces for the board if I can make a board, what would you recommend as to the size of the grid, the [...]

foxxy76_33 asked: and if so who and what are controlling the pieces.Kansieo.com

mrperu16 asked: Now im using the following code to make a chess game in Java, however im getting an error message, anyone know what im doing wrong?
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.ComponentOrientation;
import java.awt.Cursor;
import java.awt.GridLayout;
import java.awt.event.InputEvent;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.TreeMap;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JToolBar;
import java.awt.Dimension;
public class ChessGame extends JFrame {
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