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lucasreutebuch

Hey guys, is there a chess program that would allow me to change the pictures that represent the pieces? I wanted to make chess board with a specific theme, (example: Nintendo chess board where mario/peach is king/queen and pawns are goombas, etc) but creating a chess program from scratch is too daunting of a task. I simply want to represent the pieces of an existing chess program  with different images without changing the game/code. Anyone know of a way i could pull this off? 

lucasreutebuch

heres a melee theme for reference, null

lucasreutebuch

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DerrickNY

Hi,

Not sure if you would find it helpful but I've been struggling with selection of custom images, boards and pieces on the chess.com app for a while -- I was able to 'cheat' my way into the app and overwrite files on the Android version -- I totally redesigned pieces and boards but it's so unpleasant to having to effectively hack the game.

Derrick

lucasreutebuch

thanks for the response! im glad im not the only one whose considered doing this. Best of luck!

bradthechimera
If anyone is interested in having a wooden chess set customized, hand built and shipped to them I have made a hobby of doing these. I have done hockey and football teams as well as university logos, but any logo should work; photos of sample work available. My email address is bradwb2002@yahoo.com
SaberSpeed77

I made a tutorial on this guys if you are still interested.

Search "how to get custom pieces + custom board on chess.com" on YouTube. My video should pop up.