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hello i found out how to move a sprite now im having troble putting the pawn on the board i tried doing it myself and couldnt figure it out... all help is very very appreciated.

DO
sync on
load image "pawn.bmp",1
sprite 1,0,0,1
if mouseclick()
sprite 1,mousex(),mousey(),1
endif
sync
LOOP

I have modified your code. It works now.


The sync on command only needs to be called once, so do that at the top of your code and not inside a loop. Likewise, you only need to load an image once. So, again I have moved that outside you loop.
When I said it works now. What I mean is, you can at least see some kind of result but I don't think it is really what you are trying to do. At the moment the pawn sprite will be positioned at the top left corner of the screen until you press the left mousebutton. At that point the pawn will be positioned a the mouse pointers position and move with it until you release the LMB, at which point it will return to the top left corner.
So, it works because the code is nowdoing what you are asking but is that really what you are trying to do?

I think it's a half-assed solution for a far more complex problem.

Whipped, if your making a chess game, then you'll need to do a lot more than just position sprites with the mouse, you need to assign these bits to a board array, have the computer able to move them itself, check where each piece is as well as what is on each board square.

Pawn movement with the mouse is a long way down the line in your list of issues when writing a chess game. Personally, I'd go 3D, and use the pick object commands to let you select peices, very neat and professional, but it's nice and easy to make moving piece systems in 3D. When your using sprites, you have issues with z-sorting too, if you move a knight through some pawns, then the knight should be drawn on top, or last - it's not always easy to control that in 2D.

The quickest method I've found is to just try and get the basic AI working, so the computer can check what moves are possible, score them, and select a nice move, having it play itself is the best bet, you don't want to get sick of playing chess (defeats the purpose of writing a chess game!).