So apparently I’ve been in cycles render this whole time and when i switch to blender render my chess board disappears and lighting doesn’t work properly. Did i totally screw my project?
There is a way to switch materials and lighting between Blender Render and Cycles. Unfortunately, I’ve forgotten how @Michael_Bridges said to do it and wich video, or course for that matter, he discusses it in. However, there is no reason to scrap your project, I haven’t used BR since I started learning how to use cycles 
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Material setup for Blender Render and Cycles are done differently.
So if you setup a wood material (photo) in Cycles. It isn’t visible in Blender Render, without any additional configuration.
That said, Bender Render is exit with the new Blender version 2.8. It is replaced by Eevee, which handles rendering more like a game engine would do. So Eevee is very fast and is also highly compatible with Blender Cycles.
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