karayaman / Play-online-chess-with-real-chess-board
Program that enables you to play online chess using real chess board. Using computer vision it will detect the moves you make on chess board. After that, if it's your turn to move in the online game, it will make the necessary clicks to make the move.
Take screenshots of chess board of online game at starting position, one for when you play white and one for when you play black and save them as "white.JPG" and "black.JPG" similar to the images included in the source code.
Check that corners of your chess board are correctly detected by "board_calibration.py" and press key "q" to save detected chess board corners. You don't need to manually select chess board corners, it should be automatically detected by the program. The square covered by points (0,0), (0,1),(1,0) and (1,1) should be a8. You can rotate the image by pressing key "r" to adjust that. Example chess board detection result:
You can run "gui.py" to open the GUI. You can use it to do the steps in Setup and Usage sections and customize how you use the software. You can click "Start Game" button instead of running "main.py" and "Board Calibration" button instead of running "board_calibration.py".
