If you are going to use qbasic then use Free Basic. It is a free (no surprise there) compiled version of qbasic. Compiled = faster which is what you need for chess. You can test your code using the qbasic interpreter and then use the compiler to produce a fast executable.
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If I were to write a chess programme, should I use basic or qbasic