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= Chessboard Move Recorder =
 
= Chessboard Move Recorder =
 
see e.g. https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/4695/tools-for-automated-notation-webcam-movie-to-pgn/26643#26643
 
see e.g. https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/4695/tools-for-automated-notation-webcam-movie-to-pgn/26643#26643
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== Motivation ==
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see {{Link|target=MagneticSensorChessBoard1987}}
  
 
= Parts List =
 
= Parts List =
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[[File:SAM_9947.JPG|400px]] [[File:SAM_9949.JPG|400px]] [[File:SAM_9951.JPG|400px]]
 
[[File:SAM_9947.JPG|400px]] [[File:SAM_9949.JPG|400px]] [[File:SAM_9951.JPG|400px]]
 
[[File:chess34563.jpg]]
 
[[File:chess34563.jpg]]
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== Second Prototype ==
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[[File:SAM_9955.JPG|400px]]
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[[File:SAM_9962.JPG|400px]]
  
 
= Installation =
 
= Installation =
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* {{Link|target=Raspberry PI WebCam}} for the WebCam installation.
 
* {{Link|target=Raspberry PI WebCam}} for the WebCam installation.
  
= Projects =
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{{:WebCamBasedChess}}
== CV_Chess ==
 
Trying out the CV_Chess project from https://classes.engineering.wustl.edu/ese205/core/index.php?title=CV_Chess
 
Fork of it at:
 
* https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/ESE205-CVChess/
 
=== Installation ===
 
<source lang='bash'>
 
git clone  https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/ESE205-CVChess/
 
./installOpenCV
 
./install
 
</source>
 
=== Test ===
 
<source lang='bash' highlight='1,10'>
 
./test
 
============================= test session starts ==============================
 
platform linux -- Python 3.7.3, pytest-5.2.1, py-1.8.0, pluggy-0.13.0
 
rootdir: /home/wf/source/python/ESE205-CVChess
 
collected 2 items                                                             
 
  
test_camera.py .                                                        [ 50%]
 
test_webcam.py .                                                        [100%]
 
 
============================== 2 passed in 3.87s ===============================
 
</source>
 
=== Preview ===
 
<source lang='python'>
 
# see https://opencv-python-tutroals.readthedocs.io/en/latest/py_tutorials/py_gui/py_video_display/py_video_display.html
 
import numpy as np
 
import cv2
 
 
cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
 
 
while(True):
 
    # Capture frame-by-frame
 
    ret, frame = cap.read()
 
 
    # Our operations on the frame come here
 
    #gray = cv2.cvtColor(frame, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
 
 
    # Display the resulting frame
 
    cv2.imshow('Camera',frame)
 
    if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
 
        break
 
 
# When everything done, release the capture
 
cap.release()
 
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
 
</source>
 
start the above code - stop by pressing 'q'
 
<source lang='bash' hightlight='1'>
 
python3 preview.py
 
</source>
 
[[File:chesspic2019-10-15_1627.png|400px]]
 
=== Run ===
 
<source lang='bash'>
 
./run
 
</source>
 
[[File:CV_ChessStep1.png|240px]]
 
[[File:CV_ChessStep2.png|240px]]
 
[[File:CV_ChessStep3.png|240px]]
 
[[File:CV_ChessStep4.png|240px]]
 
[[File:CV_ChessStep5.png|240px]]
 
[[File:CV_ChessStep6.png|240px]]
 
[[File:CV_ChessStep7.png|240px]]
 
[[File:CV_Chess_Identified.png|400px]]
 
=== Project details ===
 
The project was an effort of some 200 hours
 
See also https://classes.engineering.wustl.edu/ese205/core/index.php?title=CV_Chess_Logs
 
 
=== Code Structure ===
 
Click classes to view source code
 
 
<uml>
 
  hide circle
 
  class ChessEng [[https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/ESE205-CVChess/blob/master/ChessEng.py]] {
 
    updateMove(move)
 
    feedToAI()
 
  }
 
  class Board [[https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/ESE205-CVChess/blob/master/Board.py]] {
 
    draw(image)
 
    assignState()
 
    determineChanges(previous,current)
 
  }
 
  class Game [[https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/ESE205-CVChess/blob/master/Game.py]] {
 
    setUp()
 
    analyzeBoard()
 
    checkBoardIsSet()
 
    playerMove()
 
    playerPromotion()   
 
    CPUMove()
 
    updateCurrent()
 
  }
 
  class Camera [[https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/ESE205-CVChess/blob/master/Camera.py]] {
 
    takePicture()
 
  }
 
  class Square [[https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/ESE205-CVChess/blob/master/Square.py]]{
 
    draw(image,color,thickness)
 
    drawROI(image,color,thickness)
 
    roiColor(image)
 
    classify(image)
 
  }
 
  class board_Recognition [[https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/ESE205-CVChess/blob/master/board_Recognition.py]]{
 
    initialize_Board()
 
    clean_Image(image)
 
    initialize_mask(adaptiveThresh,img)
 
    findEdges(image)
 
    findLines(edges,colorEdges)
 
    findCorners(horizontal,vertical,colorEdges)
 
    findSquares(corners,colorEdges)
 
  }
 
  class Line [[https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/ESE205-CVChess/blob/master/Line.py]] {
 
    find_intersection(other)
 
  }
 
  class Application [[https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/ESE205-CVChess/blob/master/OOPGUI.py]]{
 
    StartGamePage(tk.Frame)
 
    InitializeBoardPage(tk.Frame)
 
    ChooseColorPage(tk.Frame)
 
    SetBoardPage(tk.Frame)
 
    PlayerMovePage(tk.Frame)
 
    CPUMovePage(tk.Frame)
 
    CheckPage(tk.Frame)
 
    CPUMoveErrorPage(tk.Frame)
 
    PlayerMoveErrorPage(tk.Frame)
 
    GameOverPage(tk.Frame)
 
    ChooseDifficultyPage(tk.Frame)
 
    ChoosePromotionPage(tk.Frame)
 
  }
 
  Application -- "1 game" Game
 
  Game -- "1 camera" Camera
 
  Game -- "1 chessEngine" ChessEng
 
  Game -- "1 board" Board
 
  Game -- "1 boardRec" board_Recognition
 
  board_Recognition -- "1 camera" Camera
 
  Board -- "n squares" Square
 
  board_Recognition -- "n lines" Line
 
 
 
</uml>
 
=== Issues ===
 
see also https://github.com/rjgoodloe/ESE205-CVChess/issues
 
 
[[File:CV_ChessDetection.png|800px]]
 
 
The board detection algorithm does not make sure that squares are really squares.
 
== play-chess-with-a-webcam ==
 
* http://blogdugas.net/blog/2015/05/18/play-chess-with-a-webcam
 
see github fork at
 
* https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/play-chess-with-a-webcam
 
 
Written in python2 migrated to python3.
 
=== Code Structure ===
 
<uml>
 
hide circle
 
class ArenaQuit(Exception)
 
class Args
 
class BadImage(Exception)
 
class BadSegmentation(Exception)
 
class BoardFinder(object)
 
class CannotBuildStateException(Exception)
 
class Cell(object)
 
class ChessCam(object)
 
class GameEngine(object)
 
class InputManager(object)
 
class MovementDetector(object)
 
class RejectedMove(Exception)
 
class State(object)
 
class StateDetector(object)
 
class Uci(object)
 
class UserExit(Exception)
 
class Video
 
</uml>
 
 
= UCI compatible GUIs =
 
== XBoard ==
 
<source lang='bash'>
 
sudo apt-get install xboard polyglot stockfish
 
xboard -fUCI -fcp stockfish -sUCI -scp stockfish
 
</source>
 
[[File:XBoard2019-10-19.png|400px]]
 
 
= 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
 
 
= Commercial =
 
* http://webcamchess.fr/
 
 
= Links =
 
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Chess_Interface
 
* 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
 
 
= Videos =
 
<youtube>jpTSOkZURWk</youtube>
 
<youtube>qbpO1hS_rPE</youtube>
 
<youtube>WYtYjKqd0_w</youtube>
 
<youtube>APkoE1UDKj0</youtube>
 
<youtube>B0iC4IBW2IM</youtube>
 
<youtube>_tnWQCPmdgw</youtube>
 
<youtube>kONz-gURM88</youtube>
 
<youtube>UpU4G4itgOQ</youtube>
 
<youtube>AQLOj-TylGg</youtube>
 
<youtube>RkvNJ3yiIrk</youtube>
 
 
[[Category:Raspberry]]
 
[[Category:Raspberry]]
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[[Category:Chess]]

Latest revision as of 06:25, 28 October 2019

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 Brett-Bundesliga_200x200.jpg Chessboard

Schachversand Ullrich

Wikipedia 25 €
2 Bundesliga57f787924d743_200x200.jpg Chess pieces

Schachversand Ullrich

Wikipedia 25 €
3 Raspberry Pi 3 Model B.png Raspberry PI

Amazon

Wikipedia 45 €
4 LogitechC615.jpeg Web Camera

Amazon

Raspberry PI compatibility list (german) 60 €
5 71KECb7RmVL. SX679 .jpg USB Powerbank

Amazon

15 €
6 613RrJEZYPL. SL1000 .jpg 16 GByte Micro SD Card

Amazon

5 €

Pictures

First Prototype

SAM 9947.JPG SAM 9949.JPG SAM 9951.JPG Chess34563.jpg

Second Prototype

SAM 9955.JPG SAM 9962.JPG

Installation

see

Projects

  1. PlayChessWithAWebCam
  2. CV_Chess

UCI compatible GUIs

XBoard

see XBoard

Open Source Projects

Commercial

Links

Research

see also

Stackexchange

Videos