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@tobiba said in #31:
> My best of the weekend ;-p

Duh, in a Japanese game there is a person called Tobia
This is pretty great if its just starting,but a problem it has is with castling
Such an amazing idea!

On chesscam site it recognizes the board, corners and moves I make, but it doesn't make the move for me in the game on lichess - with an engine bot or otherwise. What can be the problem?!
I have 2 Questions:
Are all chess boards accepted?
Does the board has to have coordinates?
I'm careful with being overly enthousiastic. But it's seems that this kind of technology is becoming mature enough to actually use and replace DGT boards. It's a wonderful development!
I tried it in around 10 games against the MAIA bot.
It works pretty well!
It is important to find the right camera angle (as high above the stage as possible)
If a move is not recognized (and therefore not sent to lichess) most of the time the situation is resolved by going backwards and replaying the move.
The only downside is the slow movement recognition. However it is perfectly accommodating if you play classic game 30+30, 60+30...
To summarize, it is on the right track ; Congratulations !
@Coturex said in #38:
> I tried it in around 10 games against the MAIA bot.
> It works pretty well!
> It is important to find the right camera angle (as high above the stage as possible)
> If a move is not recognized (and therefore not sent to lichess) most of the time the situation is resolved by going backwards and replaying the move.
> The only downside is the slow movement recognition. However it is perfectly accommodating because you play classic game 30+30, 60+30...
> To summarize, it is on the right track; Congratulations !

Hahaha
If I use Android app, it's extremely slow, layout is broken and it cannot properly detect moves I make, but at least it recognizes that there is a game and sends my moves (albeit wrong) to the game.

In the browser version, it detects moves super-fine, but it doesn't recognize that there is a game going on and it doesn't send my moves to the game!

Please, help, anybody! What browser do you use?
I tried a broadcast in real conditions (slow game with a friend) today and I have feedback on 2 issues :
1. "Swap view" stopped the detection of new moves. Maybe it was intended so but it wasn't clear to us
2. When I castled (slowly and in a proper manner - king first) the app stopped recognizing the moves.

I hope this tool reaches maturity soon as it is very promising!