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karayaman / Play-online-chess-with-real-chess-board

Program that enables you to play online chess using real chess boards.
GNU General Public License v3.0
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support dark wood boards (like the DGT boards) #20

Closed zevaverbach closed 1 year ago

zevaverbach commented 1 year ago

Would you accept a PR to implement this?

karayaman commented 1 year ago

Hi, thanks but I wouldn't because they already have their own software.

tttiago commented 1 year ago

There are other boards with a dark frame, where OpenCV's findChessboardCorners will not work. See their note in the documentation: "The function requires white space (like a square-thick border, the wider the better) around the board to make the detection more robust in various environments." Initially, I was using one of these boards (dark frame, not a DGT) and could not complete the board calibration step.

zevaverbach commented 1 year ago

@karayaman I was referring to dark-colored boards, not e-boards. I much prefer playing on a nice wooden board, which tend to be darker. I'm surprised you wouldn't want to enable that for your users!