# ChessSkins

> A visual catalog of playful chess piece skins for lichess and chess.com — dinos, robots, pirates, 8-bit and more. Applies instantly.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/chessskins](https://chrome-stats.com/d/chessskins)

## Overview

- **ID:** `chessskins`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Nik
- **Category:** appearance,games-entertainment
- **Daily users:** 2
- **Weekly downloads:** 2
- **Version:** 2.1.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-20
- **First published:** 2026-07-17
- **Size:** 381 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/chessskins/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/chessskins/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/chessskins/privacy/)

## Description

Tired of the same six silhouettes? ChessSkins gives your chess games a wardrobe — on both <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/7123f4c9d80c14ac4540d42630c13950442a669f204cc2965052c8fc096746ea/http%3A//lichess.org" rel="nofollow">lichess.org</a> and <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/92a450ee62535ec7c4a8808171604679a0980386546999f03f800385fd014bea/http%3A//chess.com" rel="nofollow">chess.com</a>.

Open the visual gallery, see every skin laid out on a real board, click one, and your pieces change instantly — no reload, no settings digging, and your opponent sees nothing unusual. Works in games, puzzles, analysis, studies and the board editor. Your choice syncs across your Chrome profiles.

THE CATALOG (25+ skins and board themes at launch)

★ Cute &amp; cuddly — Goofball (the original silly squad), Woodland, Polar, Rubber Duckies, Garden Bugs, Deep Sea, Dinos, Monster Mash ★ Delicious — Snack Attack (the knight is a dachshund in a bun), Sweet Tooth ★ Retro &amp; sci-fi — 8-Bit, Arcade Invaders, Robots, Cosmos, Neon Grid ★ Adventure — High Seas, Valhalla, Dojo, Wild West, Spellbound, Spooky ★ For the aesthetes — Thin Line, Midnight Gothic, Doodle

BOARD THEMES

Matching grounds to fight on — walnut, marble, neon grid, sakura, tournament green, midnight and more.

MAKE YOUR OWN — NO CODING

The built-in creator hands you a designer-grade prompt for Claude or ChatGPT. Paste the AI's answer back and your custom set appears on a preview board, ready to apply. Love it? One click submits it to the public catalog, where a bot opens the pull request for you.

DESIGNED FOR REAL PLAY

Every set follows strict readability rules: six unmistakable silhouettes, clear white-vs-black armies, and legibility tested down to bullet-speed board sizes.

PRIVACY

ChessSkins collects nothing. No analytics, no accounts, no network requests. The only thing it stores is which skin you picked. The code is open source: <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/c095070f2730ab345d87f4ce68e2ec62b25caec11b29b2dc91b95a06a67ed8c0/https%3A//github.com/NikAgs/ChessSkins" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/NikAgs/ChessSkins</a>

ChessSkins is a fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/7123f4c9d80c14ac4540d42630c13950442a669f204cc2965052c8fc096746ea/http%3A//lichess.org" rel="nofollow">lichess.org</a> or <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/92a450ee62535ec7c4a8808171604679a0980386546999f03f800385fd014bea/http%3A//chess.com" rel="nofollow">chess.com</a>.

## Rankings

- #68,721 — Overall
- #202 — cheese

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`

### Content script matches

- `lichess.org`
- `*.lichess.org`
- `lichess.com`
- `*.lichess.com`
- `www.chess.com`
- `chess.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

> Some risk analysis details are omitted from this free response. [Upgrade to view the full analysis](https://chrome-stats.com/pricing).

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