How to make a tkinter canvas background transparent?

Question

I am making a chess program and I want to be able to drag the pieces. In order to do this, I put the image of the piece on a Canvas so it can be dragged (I can also use a Label if I want). However, when I drag the piece there is a white square that surrounds the image of the piece.

When I researched the problem, many people gave this solution:

drag_canvas = Canvas(self, height=80, width=80, bg="yellow")
root.wm_attributes("-transparentcolor", "yellow")

This caused the background to be transparent but it was not the chessboard that was visible, it was the program behind the GUI

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Is there any way I can have the background be transparent and show the chessboard behind rather than the program behind the tkinter window?

Note: I do not mind using any other widget (e.g. a Label) but they must use modules that come default with Python (so no PIL) as this program needs to be used in an environment where I cannot download other modules.

Answer 1

Question: How to make a tkinter canvas background transparent?

The only possible config(... option, to set the background to nothing

c.config(bg='')

results with: _tkinter.TclError: unknown color name ""

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To get this result:

you have to hold the chess board and figures within the same .Canvas(....

    self.canvas = Canvas(self, width=500, height=200, bd=0, highlightthickness=0)
    self.canvas.create_rectangle(245,50,345,150, fill='white')

    self.image = tk.PhotoImage(file='chess.png')
    self.image_id = self.canvas.create_image(50,50, image=self.image)

    self.canvas.move(self.image_id, 245, 100)

Tested with Python: 3.5 - TkVersion: 8.6