Creating Chess Board using Java Swing Program

Chess Board using Java Swing

In this tutorial, We will show you how to write program about Creating Chess Board using Java Swing.

ChessBoard.java

package com.dineshkrish;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.GridLayout;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
public class ChessBoard extends JFrame {
// The overall box count in chess board
public static final int squareCount = 64;
public ChessBoard(String title) {
// Color of chess board this you can change accordingly like red or white
Color blackColor = Color.BLACK;
Color whiteColor = Color.WHITE;
JButton chessButton = null;
for (int i = 1; i <= squareCount; i++) {
if (i % 2 == 0) { // Adding color based on the odd and even initially.
chessButton = new JButton();
chessButton.setBackground(blackColor);
add(chessButton);
} else {
chessButton = new JButton();
chessButton.setBackground(whiteColor);
add(chessButton);
}
if (i % 8 == 0) { // swapping the color when adding the next row 
Color temp = blackColor;
blackColor = whiteColor;
whiteColor = temp;
}
}
this.setTitle(title); // Setting the title of board
this.setLayout(new GridLayout(8, 18)); // GridLayout will arrange elements in Grid Manager 8 X 8
this.setSize(650, 650); // Size of the chess board
this.setVisible(true);
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
String title = "My Chess Board";
ChessBoard chessBoard = new ChessBoard(title); // Creating the instance of chess board
}
}

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