Raspberry PI Chessboard Camera

Chessboard Move Recorder

see e.g. https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/4695/tools-for-automated-notation-webcam-movie-to-pgn/26643#26643

Motivation

see MagneticSensorChessBoard1987

Parts List

#	picture	part	example sources	documents	~ price
1		Chessboard	Schachversand Ullrich	Wikipedia	25 €
2		Chess pieces	Schachversand Ullrich	Wikipedia	25 €
3		Raspberry PI	Amazon	Wikipedia	45 €
4		Web Camera	Amazon	Raspberry PI compatibility list (german)	60 €
5		USB Powerbank	Amazon		15 €
6		16 GByte Micro SD Card	Amazon		5 €

Pictures

First Prototype

Second Prototype

Installation

see

• Raspberry_PI for Raspberry PI software installation
• Raspberry PI WebCam for the WebCam installation.

Projects

1. PlayChessWithAWebCam
2. CV_Chess

UCI compatible GUIs

XBoard

sudo apt-get install xboard polyglot stockfish
xboard -fUCI -fcp stockfish -sUCI -scp stockfish

Open Source Projects

• https://classes.engineering.wustl.edu/ese205/core/index.php?title=CV_Chess
• https://github.com/swenae/chesscam
• https://github.com/Rr9/ChessStory
• https://github.com/FabioBCI/pyChess
• http://www.romanmueller.de/chesscamera
• https://github.com/TheKrystek/ChessCam
• https://gitlab.fing.edu.uy/aricca/chessTrack

Commercial

• http://webcamchess.fr/

Links

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27520991/opencv-best-way-to-detect-corners-on-chessboard
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Chess_Interface
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_symbols_in_Unicode
• https://buildmedia.readthedocs.org/media/pdf/python-chess/
• https://en.chessbase.com/post/how-to-build-your-own-usb-electronic-che-board
• https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/chess-board-raspberry-pi/
• https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/220915/python-chess-game
• https://hobbylark.com/board-games/Top-5-Free-Chess-GUIs-for-UCI-Engines
• https://www.chessprogramming.org
• https://www.chessprogramming.org/UCI
• https://www.chessprogramming.org/Piece_Recognition
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27520991/opencv-best-way-to-detect-corners-on-chessboard
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5906170/detecting-chess-moves-from-successive-image-differences-using-opencv-tools
• http://www.nandanbanerjee.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=71:buttercup-chess-robot&catid=78&Itemid=470
• https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/4695/tools-for-automated-notation-webcam-movie-to-pgn/4751#4751
• http://cs.uef.fi/~franti/chesscam/
• https://www.fide.com/contacts
• https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/infivention/square-off-worlds-smartest-chess-board-relaunched
• https://www.heise.de/make/projekte/ChessCamera-Schachcomputer-mit-Bilderkennung-2170835.html
• http://usbchessboard.yolasite.com/
• https://en.chessbase.com/post/you-built-what-a-giant-robotic-chess-set
• https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6727033
• http://wiki.ros.org/tuw_checkerboard
• http://js1k.com/2010-first/demo/750