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The pawns at square positions 11 and 51 (in front of the Queens) can't move sometimes, I don't know why or when.

Give the user an option for starting new, saving, and loading games. Maybe some implementation of storing game states in PGN format?

The toggle tooltips menu choice doesn't disable the tooltips display.

• SelectSize.. option in the menu bar, allowing users to set GUI size (e.g. small 400x00, medium 600x00, large 800x800..)
• Change Colors.. option in the menu bar, allowing users to set different GUI themes (i.e. certain sets of colors and game piece graphics..)

State of the game must be retrievable at all times, so a new chess board with whatever chess position can be redrawn to the user after a new size or color option has been set. There might be a way to change sizes and colors without having to create new objects, but maybe it's better to just store the game state, and recreate the game state only with new GUI thematics

Write and implement methods for checking if game is ended because of check- or stalemate.

The game needs to keep track of each piece's value, and a score of all captured pieces put together; for deciding a win scenario if the game ends at voluntary resignation.

White bishop at square position 58 can move to 16, black bishop at 5 can move to 47!

This needs more attention, the current undo move implementation undoes to many moves if several moves has been made with different pieces.

Is your engine compatible with the free available chess protocols WinBoard (a.k.a. CECP) and UCI (abreviation of Universal Chess Interface). Hundreds of chess programs (freeware/shareware) support both or at least one of these connections.

WinBoard

http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/engine-intf.html

http://hgm.nubati.net/CECP.html

UCI

http://www.shredderchess.com/download.html

http://download.shredderchess.com/div/uci.zip

Can you create a Java executable file (.har) and host it on Github, too?

The GUI should have a status bar at the bottom of the application window which shows the player who's turn it is, and other usable information like completed captures, illegal moves, canceling of previous selections, etc..