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Convert a physical chessboard into a digital one

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November 13, 2019 | Saurabh B Intro We have quite a few chess enthusiasts at our Oslo office, so we thought it would be cool to make something interesting for ourselves: a chessboard scanner that converts the image of a physical chessboard at any given (chess) position into a digital chessboard! Then we could record the current state of the game and continue playing on our own devices, or share it with friends. In this article I’ll go through the journey of building the chessboard scanner. Let’s start with understanding the problem we are trying to solve - we want to get a digital copy of…

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