Chess piece hierarchy design: inheritance vs type fields

Question

I have a base class for pieces

 class piece;

and an array containing derived objects

piece* board[8][8];

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Answer 1

Alternatively, if your set of classes is limited - i.e. you know the number, use a variant and visitors. For example, boost::variant And the board is made up of a 2D array of this type. Now to interrogate, you can use visitors...