ARchess

Introducton

This is an augmented reality (AR) application in python. Basic chess rules are supported. Easy to use and you can make extensions easily if you want. Enjoy!

Preparation

• Print 8x8board.pdf. It is designed for US letter sized papaer but it is also OK if you use any other kind of papers.
• Install python 3.5 or python 3.6. Using anaconda is recommended.
• Run pip install opencv-python to install opencv for python.
• Run pip install glfw, pip install PyOpenGL and pip install pywavefront for using OpenGL.
• Run pip install python-chess to install python-chess repository. See https://github.com/niklasf/python-chess for details.
• Clone this repository by running git clone https://github.com/zuoym15/ARchess.git

How to play?

• Run python caliberate camera.py. It will pop up a window. What you need to do is to move the 8x8 checkerboard in front of the camera until 30 frames is colleced. Make the variation of view angle & distance as large as possible. Camera intrinsic parameters will be computed and stored in camera_parameters.json.
• Run python ARchess.py --camera-id 0. Make sure the checkerboard is presented in the captured image and there is no occlusion. If you have multiple cameras connected, try camera_id from 0 and find out id of the camera you want to use.
• If you want the pieces to be presented in 3d, run python ARchess.py --camera-id 0 --d3-piece
• Play by clicking on the pieces. Grid your mouse placed on is shown in GREEN. Piece you select is shown in RED. Possible moves is shown in BLUE. your king becomes PINK if you are checked.

Notes

• No AI availible yet. We will consider adding an AI in the future.
• Pawn can only promote into Queen.
• No undo could be done.