Title: 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.<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;devpost.com&#x2F;software&#x2F;chess-boss<p>There are these really cool smart chessboards that can suggest moves and track your games... but they’re $400 and weigh 19 pounds. And of course there are apps that can analyze games but tracking and inputting games by hand is a huge pain. Or fully-digital chess apps... but board games are way more fun in real life!<p>We wondered: “why can’t you just do that in software and bring the best parts of chess apps into the real world?” So we did!<p>A camera passes a feed of the board through our machine learning model which interprets the state of the board and passes it off to Stockfish to display move suggestions in real time.<p>We didn’t quite get to recording the state over time in PGN but we hope to continue this project and add that soon!<p>Would love to know what you think. We’re working on enhancing other board games with computer vision as well; if you want to help us beta test sign up at https:&#x2F;&#x2F;boardboss.com
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