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Of course there is an easier way, and you should know it to be doing this project. You don't seem ready for this project. You're missing basic understanding of foundational things like for loops,...

Where do you get this stuff?

Arrays can contain objects. There are other collections, ArrayLists, etc. that can also contain objects.

I think you just need to quit asking, "What do I need?" and get to work.

Location: Each chess piece may know where it is on the board. The locations on a chessboard are easily represented by a 2D array.

ChessPiece: You might also want to include a list of possible...

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Create a ChessPiece class that includes, name/type, color, location, and anything else you want. A chess game includes 32 chess pieces.

You'll need a FEN...

What does this mean? Letters don't hold images. They may represent images. In that case . . .

It seems to me that the FEN notation describes each square of the chessboard. Why not just "read"...