This is a very professional looking chess board. Do you do chess coding yourself? If there is a complete solution with drag and drop and the rest I'm interested.

On the other hand doing things by using a canvas is much more complicated. You may know that in chess positions are stored in fen strings. If you substitute slashes with newlines and digits with as many spaces as the digit says in the first field of a fen string you practically have a string which inserted in a text widget represents a chess board (you only have to make corrections for white and black squares). This is a matter of few regular expressions. No screen coordinates, sizes etc. need to be calculated whatsoever making things temptingly simple and quicker as well since the drawing of the board is a matter of $text_widget->insert('1.0',$corrected_fen_string) rather than looping over x and y coordinates, calculating the screen coordinates for each and every square then drawing them.

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