Component provides a customizable 2D Chessboard that can keep track of a game and verify the legality of moves.The colors, size, bitmaps for the pieces and squares can be customized. Optionally the component can be resized at runtime. The C++ Builder version of the component has been linked to the engine of Toms Simple Chess Programand uses its own thread for thinking. Drop such a component on a form and you are very close to a complete working chess application. Toms Simple Chess Program.