How do I make the background in an image transparent?

...How do I make the background in an image transparent?

It sounds like you're gif is a picture of a white background with a black chess piece on top. If that's the case, you're going to have to cut the black chess piece out of the gif. Save ~just~ the image of the chess piece. Discard the white background. Use only the image of the black chess piece with no background image at all.
Keep in mind that Java doesn't know that the white background isn't a part of the image. It doesn't understand that the white part is just the background. As far as it's concerned, the whole gif is the image. Only the component that ~contains~ that gif can become transparent.
So, if you want to have a white background to start with and then have that background become transparent when the piece moves, make the background of the ~component~ holding the image of the chess piece white. When the piece moves, have the background of the component holding the image of the chess piece become transparent.

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