Jim West On Chess: ChessOcrPict for Android

Saturday, June 29, 2013

ChessOcrPict for Android

Dr. Gerhard Roth, whose app ChessOcr recognizes chess figures in books using the camera on an Android device, has created another app ChessOcrPict which does the same as ChessOcr.

But the input is either a picture in the gallery taken from any camera, or a screen capture.

This app, which is free, does not require a camera on the device.

"My study of chess was accompanied by a strong attraction to music, and it was probably thanks to this that from childhood I became accustomed to thinking of chess as an art, and have never regarded it as anything else, for all the science and sport involved in it. And, moreover, an art which in some ways is closer to music than it is customary to think. Perhaps chess and music are drawn together by laws of harmony and beauty which are difficult to formulate and difficult to grasp, or perhaps by something else." - Vasily Smyslov