[HN Gopher] Play online chess with a real chess board
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Play online chess with a real chess board
Author : karayaman
Score : 78 points
Date : 2021-06-26 16:51 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| syoc wrote:
| I thought this would be something similar to
| https://www.certabo.com/.
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| I think the combination of having a physical board but playing
| games over the internet is quite neat.
| aj7 wrote:
| A nice hack.
| jacquesm wrote:
| Very cool this. Thank you for posting it.
|
| Why do you call the white.jpg and black.jpg files 'exe' files?
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| They are binaries, images to be specific.
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| Edit: ah no, parsing error on my end, I get it now.
| kzrdude wrote:
| it's clearly a typo
| rexreed wrote:
| awesome -been wanting to do this for a while, and had an idea to
| build something like this to automatically record in-person chess
| tournaments for spectators.
| jgilias wrote:
| There's a satisfying symmetry in how a chessboard is used to do
| the chessboard calibration to actually play chess.
|
| Nice work, thanks for sharing!
| alisonkisk wrote:
| What do you mean?
| mfgs wrote:
| Camera calibrations are often done with a chess board
| pattern, as it shows scale, skew, rotation, etc of the real
| world plane you are imaging.
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| Also see
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chessboard_detection.
| gbolcer wrote:
| I like this. I'm going to try this out.
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