   Simple 2D board game tutorial
  I am looking for a very simple 2D board game tutorial or public domain source code.I am interested mostly in how a game like Checkers (for example) would be presented, saved to disk, loaded from disk, and transmitted over the internet.  Please just a simple game with basic graphics...no DirectX if it can be avoided...just muddies the waters for me.I am looking for a tutorial that helps show or explain these basic game elements for a 2D board game.  C# is preferred, or C++.   
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/doscheckers/That good?   ;  Someone from the SDL.NET forums posted about his progress he made on a chess game he was working on in C# and SDL.NET:  SDL.NET Chess.  I don't know if he's still working on it, or has released the source, but here's the forum post on the matter.   