GitHub - Pbatch/CameraChessWeb: Record a chess game live and upload the PGN to Lichess

📌 This app is under active development and may experience minor issues.
Please report any bugs on Discord, and we will fix them promptly.

Replace Chess eBoards with your phone camera using ChessCam (https://www.chesscam.net).

Do you have ideas, bugs to report or training footage? Join our Discord Server.

Demo

Features

Record: point your camera at the board and the moves are recorded as you play
Upload: turn a video of a game into a PGN
Play: play your Lichess games on a real board
Broadcast: stream a game to Lichess as you play
Export your games to Lichess, or save them as a PGN

The app runs in your browser and works offline after the first visit. It is fastest on a device with WebGPU. See the FAQ in the app for camera setup and other help.

Roadmap

Raise an alert when an illegal move is played (currently they're just ignored)
Add sounds for the opponents moves in "/play"
Add support for variants
... Your next big idea?

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

_{Conor Shepherd} 🔬	_tdr24008 🔬	_{DakshHandeCode} 🎨	_ChessScholar 🐛	_JohnP-1 🐛	_{Abdullah Khetran} 🔬	_{Tejas Raman} 🛡️
_{Dani Springer Chess Lessons 🇮🇱} 📖	_{Lucas Cox} 📖	_squiddible 🐛