Chess GUI with wxPython Phoenix

I am creating a chess GUI with wxPython Phoenix
(wxPython-4.0.0rc1.dev3436+efbe850,
the latest wheel build as of 10/16/2017 for Python 3.6 on Windows 10
64-bit).


My backend is going to be python-chess, a lovely chess library with all the
bells and whistles, like legal move detection and all that stuff.


And now to the question. How on Earth can I incorporate a chess board onto
the panel of my main window? python-chess provides a way to display the
chess board, even in SVG, but I can't seem to do this. I've looked many
solutions, and the one I come up with is by using the
wx.AutoBufferedPaintDC. That'll create sort sort of a canvas on the panel
for me to paint the chess board to. Also, the chess board itself is static,
but the pieces must be interactive. I just can't make this work.


Do I need to create a custom wx.Panel class or something else? Also, I must
make sure that wx.Window.SetBackgroundStyle is called with
wx.BG_STYLE_PAINT somewhere in the class initialization code to avoid
flickering when a chess piece moves. Further, this wx.DC derivative can be
used inside of an EVT_PAINT() event handler to achieve double-buffered
drawing. How can this be coded?

I just don't have enough knowledge to do this. Does anyone know how can I
do this? Some code examples would be nice, because that'll give me a
clearer picture on the task at hand.

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