♟️ChessCam 📸 

ChessCam is a chessboard recognition app that detects the positions of chess pieces from an image and recreates the board, allowing players to continue a gameplay.

💡 Features

Login and Registration

- Your username and password will be stored online.

- Password is encrypted with Werkzerg.

Inference

- Step 1: Click "Choose Image" to upload a chessboard image.

- Step 2: Click "Analyze" and wait until you see "Sucessfully detect...".

- Step 3: Click "Spawn Pieces".

- Step 4: (Optional) Change the settings (turn and board flip).

=> You can continue the gameplay now.

Inference History

- Each user has 3 inference attempts per day (reset at 00:00 UTC).

- You can click on a history image to spawn the corresponding board.

📈 Development plan

- Implement stalemate and en passant rules.

- Allow manual piece placement.

- Gather feedback to improve the tool.

- Board area detection, which removes the need of cropping image.

- Integrate a chess engine (Stockfish, Lichess, etc).

- Add a friend system so that users can challenge each other.

🏷️ Asset Attribution

Chess Piece Assets

The chess piece images used in this project are sourced from Lichess.

Lichess piece sets are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

- You can find the original asset sets at: https://github.com/lichess-org/lila/tree/master/public/piece/staunty

✅ Attribution (as required by CC BY 4.0):

Chess piece graphics © lichess.org, used under CC BY 4.0.