Camera Chess Web

Replace Chess eBoards with your phone camera using ChessCam (https://www.chesscam.net).

Features include:

• Broadcasting your game to Lichess.
• Playing a game on Lichess.
• Digitizing a chess game from a video / live stream.

Download the free app on Google Play.

Demo

Roadmap

• Raise an alert when an illegal move is played (currently they're just ignored)
• Add sounds for the opponents moves in "/play"
• Add support for variants
• Develop a testing framework for different board + piece sets
• ... Your next big idea?

Models

Here are the models in ONNX format, post in the Issues if you want them in PyTorch format as well. Once you've downloaded the models, you can view them in Netron (https://netron.app/).

Name	Description	Link
480L_xcorners_480x288.onnx	YOLOv8 xcorner detector	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-58WXTiXTupb7BJsO_ilwAN9j1XNTUTn/view?usp=sharing
480S_pieces_step_3_480x288.onnx	Pruned YOLOv8 piece detector	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K1Yqm3vYGcbIlI2gTIaY5EKPLpQ1dcU6/view?usp=sharing
480S_pieces_480x288.onnx	YOLOv8 piece detector	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-0ud7pAT2-oR9DxAimWCTJuQeCFnchPQ/view?usp=sharing

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Conor Shepherd 🔬

tdr24008 🔬

DakshHandeCode 🎨

ChessScholar 🐛

JohnP-1 🐛

Abdullah Khetran 🔬

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!