Game Programming using Qt 5 Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

Time for action – Implementing the game board class

Now we will focus on our data structure. Add a new private member to ChessBoard, a vector of characters that will contain information about pieces on the board:

QVector<char> m_boardData; 

Consider the following table that shows the piece type and the letters used for it:

Piece type	White	Black
	King	K	k
	Queen	Q	q
	Rook	R	r
	Bishop	B	b
	Knight ...