Chess, Variable Loosing it.s Value

[michail]

messed up code

[JosAH]

            if (Mydisplay == "Pawn 0,1")

Not that it answers your question but this is not the way to compare two Strings for equality. Use the .equals( ... ) method for that.

kind regards,

Jos

[michail]

thanks for that. I will do it that way, still don.t know how to get the "myDisplay" to be updated every time the player selects the piece.

[Fubarable]

It's a bit of unusual code to say the least, but if I were your instructor, I'd ask you to start completely over, to get rid of everything that's static except for the main method, and to make it use more standard OOPs techniques. You may in fact want to discuss this assignment with your instructor a bit.

[Fubarable]

I'm sorry to be blunt, but it really is ugly code. I think that your best option truly is to begin again. Again, I'm sincerely sorry to say this.

[JosAH]

I'm sorry to be blunt, but it really is ugly code. I think that your best option truly is to begin again. Again, I'm sincerely sorry to say this.

The politically correct term is 'convoluted' here, as in: the classes and program logic are very convoluted. @OP: think of abstract things that do things: a chess board, a move evaluator (check for legality etc.) chess pieces etc. Those thIngs all have to cooperate in order to play a game of chess, or to at least make the pieces move in a sensible way on the board; the term here is CRC: Classes, Responsibility and Collaboration. All three aspects need to be defined, e.g. don't stick functionality where it doesn't belong (Classes and Responsibility) and don't make classes do things that other classes can't handle (Collaboration).

kind regards,

Jos

[Fubarable]

For one thing, in real life, a chess board is not a grid of chess pieces, but rather a 2-dimensional grid of cells, that may or may not hold a single chess piece. Thus if this were my program, I'd create an object, say Square, or Cell, that has a rank and file, and can either be empty or hold a chess piece, and create a board that is a 2-D array of these Cells.