Augmented Reality Chess

Overview

AR-Chess is an augmented reality chess GUI implemented using osgART. It allows users to play chess games against a chess engine or against another human.

Main features

• Uses Universal Chess Interface (UCI) protocol to communicate with the chess engine (currently uses Stockfish, but any UCI engine can be used)
• Allows 3 different game modes: Human vs Human, Human vs Computer and Computer vs Computer
• Allows going back and forward in the player chess piece moves
• Implements and enforces all chess rules
• Possible moves are shown for the chess piece the player wants to move
• Player isn't allowed to make invalid moves
• Uses ARToolkit for marker detection and tracking (and as such, requires a live video feed)
• All user interaction is done with 2 markers (1 for the board and 1 for the selector)
• Uses OpenSceneGraph for 3D rendering (press h for help and to see keyboard shortcuts)

Vídeo 1 - AR-Chess gameplay

Figure 1 - Front view

Figure 2 - Left view

Figure 3 - Game modes

Figure 4 - Skill levels

Figure 5 - Game timers

Figure 6 - Pawn en passant capture

Figure 7 - Pawn promotion

Figure 8 - Castling

Figure 9 - King check

Figure 10 - King check mate

Releases

Windows 8.1 release

Building and developing

The setup instructions on how to build and develop in Visual Studio is available here