Currently the underlying mechanism of the board is working with 0 index, but for some reason in high school I thought it would make more sense to use 1 index. There is something to be said for abstracting the underlying implementation, but since they aren't being indexed by their actual coordinates (Which are alphanumeric), I don't feel bad about changing to the same numbering that all the algorithms consuming it use.
Currently the underlying mechanism of the board is working with 0 index, but for some reason in high school I thought it would make more sense to use 1 index. There is something to be said for abstracting the underlying implementation, but since they aren't being indexed by their actual coordinates (Which are alphanumeric), I don't feel bad about changing to the same numbering that all the algorithms consuming it use.