ChessBoss
Games
chess board computer vision
SHOW HN2019
How HN took it
12 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 25 comments about the project. Thread score +0.40.
Idea: 8 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Cool idea and useful for teaching and streaming
From 2 comments
Really glad to see a few projects like this recently. For teaching it's _so_ good to be able to quickly help kids analyze a position (even when you have no real right to be…
thom on HNThis would be an awesome tool for streaming :) You should also consider posting this on the chess subreddit: http://reddit.com/r/chess
ospohngellert on HN
Would help clubs record competitive games
From 1 comment
This is very cool. One very important application would be simply recording competitive games. There are electronic boards that can do this, and they are ubiquitous at top level…
billforsternz on HN
Objections
Physical board setup seems more hassle than free chess apps
From 2 comments
At that point why bother with a physical board? There are tons of free chess apps that will happily run on a tablet or PC with out all this faffing about.
TylerE on HNSounds more like the worst of both ... have to set up all those connections, power, still need a PC, but lacking the convenience.
TylerE on HN
AR glasses would ruin the board game experience
From 1 comment
Having to wear bulky glasses would ruin boardgames for me. But I see your point.
Aspos on HN
Requests
Release source code
From 3 comments
Where’s the code?
levischoen on HNWow this is cool! Any plans to open source it? This is something I'd love to hack on. If not, anyone else wanna work on this together? email me (in my profile)
malux85 on HNThis inspires some nifty applications for headset/eyeglass AR. I second the request for source code, it’d be great to play with this on something like the vuzix or HoloLens.
mustacheemperor on HN
Add game recording to PGN
From 1 comment
This is very cool. One very important application would be simply recording competitive games. There are electronic boards that can do this, and they are ubiquitous at top level…
billforsternz on HN
Augmented reality version
From 1 comment
Would love to see something like this done in augmented reality so you point it at a chess board and it gives you info about the game in progress.
dangero on HN
Questions
Where is the code and is it available
From 2 comments
Where’s the code?
levischoen on HN> We plan to launch a Kickstarter to get funding so we can turn this into a real product to enhance Chess for people playing in the real world. I expect it is not available!
mhuffman on HN
How occlusion of pieces was handled
From 2 comments
Nice. We’ll dive into your repo, too. How did you handle a queen occluding a smaller pawn behind it? Simply more training data?
rocauc on HNGreat minds! Love that you deployed to a Pi – I’ve thought about the same to complement or replace smartphones. Can you shed some insight into your ML process? One thing we did…
rocauc on HN
Alternatives named
Smart chessboards costing around $400
From 1 comment
We built ChessBoss at the TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon this week. It didn’t make the top 10 but I thought Hacker News might think it’s pretty cool. There are these really cool…
yeldarb on HN
Free chess apps on tablet or PC
From 1 comment
At that point why bother with a physical board? There are tons of free chess apps that will happily run on a tablet or PC with out all this faffing about.
TylerE on HN
ChessEye and Chess-ID prior projects
From 2 comments
Congrats! We tried something similar a few years ago (also at the TC Disrupt Hackathon [1]), but had to take a lot of shortcuts to get to something working. I'm impressed you had…
psuter on HNSimilar project from 2015. https://medium.com/@daylenyang/building-chess-id-99afa57326cd
lern_too_spel on HN