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

Have a go hero – Implementing the UI around the chess board

During the exercise, we focused on developing the game board view and necessary classes to make the game actually run. However, we completely neglected the regular user interface the game might possess, such as toolbars and menus. You can try designing a set of menus and toolbars for the game. Make it possible to start a new game, save a game in progress (say by implementing a FEN serializer), load a saved game (say by leveraging the existing FEN string parser), or choose different game types that will spawn different ChessAlgorithm subclasses. You can also provide a settings dialog for adjusting the look of the game board. If you feel like it, you can add chess clocks or implement ...