This is a console application of Chess I am making which has been made rather fuzy when converting to GIF, so you know what it looks like. Unless your version of C++ is 20 years old it is 99% certain you are using Visual C++. When you start a new project you get a selection. Eg I chose to make a console application. Some of the other choices would have been for Visual applications, where you make programs that have buttons scroll bars text boxes and such. It depends which type of protect you want to make. If you're learning, chances are you will spend a lot of time making console applications so you can concentrate on learning the langauge without having to worry about the visual aspects of it yet.