Chess++ is a chess game for two players written in C++. I decided to do this after playing chess with my brother on Yahoo! Messenger. I liked the chess game there and the transparency when dragging pieces and such. I knew that I could do the structural-logic of determining valid moves, captures and end games. I knew how to do the dragging and transparency in Flash, which is what the Yahoo chess game was written in, but I have never done anything like that before in C++.