Game design in c++

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I am new to C++. I am using CodeBlock for development.

As a learning exercise I want to write chess game with UI.

Can someone help me in identifying what tool and library I would need to for showing a chess board GUI

what algorithm I need to read to implement chess rules ?

any else I need to know ...

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:32

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There are plenty of GUI-toolkits, GTK and Qt come to mind as two. See How do I build a GUI in C++? for more suggestions.

Or if you want to do the board "by-hand" then you might want to try SDL.

As for chess algorithms, it depends what you're looking for. A chess AI? A way to compute if someone is in check/checkmate? I think it might be more interesting to try and come up with your own first, then look around at others. Although if you just want some suggestions or reading material, then this and this looks promising.

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answered Sep 05 '13 at 04:34

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I want to write 2 player chess. – Gainster Sep 05 '13 at 04:44
Well then you'll still need an algorithm to check all the pieces on the board, and the GUI stuff is still valid. – charmlessCoin Sep 05 '13 at 04:53
can you point to that algorithm – Gainster Sep 05 '13 at 05:06
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Game design in c++

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