Join by QR
The phone and browser join the same match without requiring a complicated setup flow.
Working software prototype
Real board.
Remote match.
Gammon Live lets two people play online while both keep using physical backgammon boards. A phone watches each board, the server maintains the authoritative match state, and a live viewer keeps both players synchronized.
PHONE CAMERA
+ RULES ENGINE
+ RULES ENGINE
Computer vision guided by game state.
Reading a board from a phone image is only half the problem. Glare, hands, shadows and similar checker colours can make a visually plausible result impossible under the rules. Gammon Live combines OpenCV and YOLO output with a rules engine that knows the previous position and the legal moves.
When there is one valid interpretation, the server advances the match. When the image is genuinely ambiguous, the player receives a small confirmation instead of the system silently inventing a move.
Read the board
The calibrated phone view sends a sharp frame when the pieces or dice need to be read.
Apply the rules
Vision candidates are checked against the last trusted state and legal backgammon moves.
Update both players
FastAPI and WebSockets publish the accepted position to the shared live interface.
Demo availability
The public server is not kept online continuously.
The project is a working engineering prototype, but the hosted demo only runs for planned tests and demonstrations. If you would like to inspect the system, discuss the architecture or arrange a live trial, email me and I will prepare it.
Request a demo via emailabughazalaibrahim@gmail.com