Building Chessboard Recognition App with my daughter

Snap That Piece is the over-the-board chess companion working on the edge with no internet connection. Built as a dad companion to help keep up with his daughter’s supersonic speed progression at chess, it’s a side project born out of passion.

I will be presenting the process from start to finish. From creating the data acquisition and labelling pipeline with a custom labeling software all the way up to training, tuning hyperparameters, and deploying an app as a wrapper to the CoreML model on Apple devices.

I will also show how to transition from popular proprietary Ultralytics YOLO to the open-source Roboflow RF-DETR model family.