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Decision brief
CameraChessWeb records chess games live via camera and uploads game notation to Lichess using computer vision techniques.
Good fit when
- When you need a tool specifically designed for recording real-time chess games with a phone camera
- If uploading PGN directly to the Lichess platform is essential
Avoid when
- Avoid if seeking full support for chess variants not yet included in CameraChessWeb
- Not suitable if you require comprehensive bug fixes or stability, given it's under active development with known minor issues
Observed Jul 17, 2026 · Source: enrich:decision_facts
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Maintenance and security
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- Very active (6d since push)
- As of 3w
- Provenance
- Not a fork · Personal account
- As of 3w
- Security (OSV)
- No lockfile
- As of 1mo
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Install
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Overview
Develops an application for recording chess games in real time with a phone camera and uploading the game notation (PGN) to Lichess website, utilizing computer vision techniques.
Capability facts
- CLI
- CLI entrypoint
Source: package.json:bin|scripts · Aug 1, 2026
- MCP server
- No MCP server detected
Source: repo_scan · Aug 1, 2026
- Languages
- typescript, javascript
Source: github.language+package.json · Aug 1, 2026
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README
📌 This app is under active development and may experience minor issues.
Please report any bugs on Discord, and we will fix them promptly.
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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
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
- Develop a testing framework for different board + piece sets
- ... Your next big idea?
Models, Data, Reports and Scripts
Please post in the Issues tab if you need any help with:
- Running inference
- Exporting models to different formats
- Training on data of varying resolutions (I.e. 640x640)
- etc. etc.
Pieces
| Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 480M_leyolo_pieces.onnx | LeYOLO ONNX model | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-80xp_nly9i6s3o0mF0mU9OZGEzUAlGj/view?usp=sharing |
| 480M_leyolo_pieces.pt | LeYOLO pt model | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L6PZbSdT-peCmiJGNwmgHJN5MTpfAM-0/view?usp=sharing |
| pieces.tar.gz | Train/test data in YOLOv5 format | https://drive.google.com/file/d/12-Y3AJckAsFiDTlhQV8R50AK5ilM0s_Z/view?usp=sharing |
| Report | Weights & Biases report from the LeYOLO training run | https://api.wandb.ai/links/pbatch/g2rcvycv |
Xcorners
| Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 480L_leyolo_xcorners.onnx | LeYOLO ONNX model | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-2wodbiXag9UQ44e2AYAmoRN6jVpxy83/view?usp=sharing |
| 480L_leyolo_xcorners.pt | LeYOLO pt model | https://drive.google.com/file/d/173orSe8eaytN8nin_HOvd2sEfP_wtOUW/view?usp=sharing |
| xcorners.tar.gz | Train/test data in YOLOv5 format | https://drive.google.com/file/d/15Liy-vMcujSZak4YRPeC2TpVjIA3AwVM/view?usp=sharing |
| Report | Weights & Biases report from the LeYOLO training run | https://api.wandb.ai/links/pbatch/ziwur3gr |
Google Colab scripts
- LeYOLO Training + ONNX export - https://gist.github.com/Pbatch/dccc680ac2f852d4f258e4b6f1997a7b
- TFJS export - https://gist.github.com/Pbatch/46d958df7e0363e42561bda50163a57a
Contributors ✨
Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):
 Conor Shepherd 🔬 |  tdr24008 🔬 |  DakshHandeCode 🎨 |  ChessScholar 🐛 |
For agents
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