ChessBase India
Play Live on Lichess With a Real Board
A tutorial on how to play on Lichess using your own boardHello. I'm back with another update for ChessCam, the free website/app that digitizes your chess games.
Recently I've been working on a feature where you can play a game on Lichess using your own board. Check it out in the following video.
Giving it a try
Board/Camera setup
- Setup your chess board.
- Mount your webcam/phone so that it can see all 4 corners of the board.
ChessCam setup
- Go to www.chesscam.net.
- Login using your Lichess account.
- Go to "/play".
- Align the corners.
- Click the play button.
Lichess Setup
- At the top-right of Lichess click Username > Sound > Speech so that Lichess will call out the moves as they are played.
- Go to Lichess and start a game against a bot.
- Start playing.
If you are successful against a bot, you can try playing a game against a human opponent. At the moment you cannot play Blitz or Bullet using the API, unless you issue a direct challenge.
If you have any problems/suggestions/ideas please message me on Lichess.
Let me know in the comments if you manage to defeat someone using the ChessCam "/play" feature! :)