# Displaying a chess board with Julia

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/displaying-a-chess-board-with-julia/56015
**Category:** New to Julia
**Created:** [February 25, 2021, 1:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/displaying-a-chess-board-with-julia/56015 "2021-02-25T13:56:39Z")
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### Author: ![hpw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/hpw/32/22300_2.png) [@hpw](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/hpw)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2021, 1:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/displaying-a-chess-board-with-julia/56015/1 "2021-02-25T13:56:39Z")

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I plan to use julia’s chess.jl and Gtk.jl + ImageView.pl to write a custom chess app for our kids to study puzzles. [We want to record what the kids did with elapsed time etc for e.g. Polgar’s ~5000 problems:)]  
[ The initial plan is  
to set up 64 canvas with alternating background colors,  
and  
from a FEN spec , put up piece images in EPS format  
so that the board can be resized.  
Any advice ? ]  
Before I dive into it further, I would like to find out if there are already some julia codes for setting up a GUI chess board.

Thanks  
HP