iPhone - archiving array of custom objects

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I've been trying for hours and I cannot solve this problem.

I'm making an app that saves unfinished Chess Games, so I'm trying to write an array to a file.

This is what the array is, if it makes sense:

-NSMutableArray savedGames
--GameSave a
---NSMutableArray board;
----Piece a, b, c, etc.
-----some ints
---NSString whitePlayer, blackPlayer;
---int playerOnTop, turn;
--GameSave b
---NSMutableArray board;
----Piece a, b, c, etc.
-----some ints
---NSString whitePlayer, blackPlayer;
---int playerOnTop, turn;

etc.

And these are my NSCoding methods:

GameSave.m

- (void)encodeWithCoder:(NSCoder *)coder {
    [coder encodeObject:whitePlayer forKey:@"whitePlayer"];
    [coder encodeObject:blackPlayer forKey:@"blackPlayer"];
    [coder encodeInt:playerOnTop forKey:@"playerOnTop"];
    [coder encodeInt:turn forKey:@"turn"];
    [coder encodeObject:board forKey:@"board"];
}

- (id)initWithCoder:(NSCoder *)coder {
    self = [[GameSave alloc] init];
    if (self != nil)
    {
        board = [coder decodeObjectForKey:@"board"];
        whitePlayer = [coder decodeObjectForKey:@"whitePlayer"];
        blackPlayer = [coder decodeObjectForKey:@"blackPlayer"];
        playerOnTop = [coder decodeIntForKey:@"playerOnTop"];
        turn = [coder decodeIntForKey:@"turn"];
    }   
    return self;
}

Piece.m

- (void)encodeWithCoder:(NSCoder *)coder {
    [coder encodeInt:color forKey:@"color"];
    [coder encodeInt:piece forKey:@"piece"];
    [coder encodeInt:row forKey:@"row"];
    [coder encodeInt:column forKey:@"column"];
}

- (id)initWithCoder:(NSCoder *)coder {
    self = [[Piece alloc] init];
    if (self != nil)
    {
        color = [coder decodeIntForKey:@"color"];
        piece = [coder decodeIntForKey:@"piece"];
        row = [coder decodeIntForKey:@"row"];
        column = [coder decodeIntForKey:@"column"];
    }   
    return self;
}

And this is the code that tries to archive and save to file:

- (void)saveGame {
    ChessSaverAppDelegate *delegate = (ChessSaverAppDelegate *) [[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate];
    [[delegate gameSave] setBoard:board];

    NSMutableArray *savedGames = [NSKeyedUnarchiver unarchiveObjectWithFile:[self dataFilePath]];
    if (savedGames == nil) {
        [NSKeyedArchiver archiveRootObject:[delegate gameSave] toFile:[self dataFilePath]];
    } else {
        [savedGames addObject:[delegate gameSave]];
        [NSKeyedArchiver archiveRootObject:savedGames toFile:[self dataFilePath]];
    }
}

- (NSString *)dataFilePath {
    NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
    NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
    return [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"gameSaves.plist"];
}

Sorry, here's the problem:

After setting some breakpoints, an error is reached after this line from -saveGame:
[NSKeyedArchiver archiveRootObject:savedGames toFile:[self dataFilePath]];

And this is what shows up in the console:

2010-05-11 17:04:08.852 ChessSaver[62065:207] *** -[NSCFType encodeWithCoder:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x3d3cd30
2010-05-11 17:04:08.891 ChessSaver[62065:207] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '*** -[NSCFType encodeWithCoder:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x3d3cd30'
2010-05-11 17:04:08.908 ChessSaver[62065:207] Stack: (
    32339035,
    31077641,
    32720955,
    32290422,
    32143042,
    238843,
    25827,
    238843,
    564412,
    342037,
    238843,
    606848,
    17686,
    2733061,
    4646817,
    2733061,
    3140430,
    3149167,
    3144379,
    2837983,
    2746312,
    2773089,
    41684313,
    32123776,
    32119880,
    41678357,
    41678554,
    2777007,
    9884,
    9738
)

If it matters, -saveGame is called from a UIBarButton in a navigation controller.

Any help is appreciated, thanks.

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