Chess.com Custom Themes, Boards - ChessHelper

Name: Chess.com Custom Themes, Boards - ChessHelper
Rating: 4.663390663390663 (407 reviews)
Author: https://weblxapplications.com

2025 Setup new themes, pieces, fonts, and boards, remove annoying notifications, popups, and so on.

ChessHelper is a Chrome extension designed to enhance your Chess.com experience with customizable themes, boards, and pieces. Choose from 6 new themes, 39 piece sets, and 40 boards to personalize your chess games.

Stay focused with features like notification control to remove popups, disabling chat to avoid distractions, and a bandwidth saver that stops the main page stream. Additional functionalities include fullscreen and fixed board modes, double click resign to simplify gameplay, and coordinates on each square to aid notation learning. Privacy is prioritized with no tracking or ads. ChessHelper is regularly updated with new content, languages, and UI improvements for a seamless chess experience.

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By:: https://weblxapplications.com
Users:: 4,000+
Rating:: 4.66
(407) 3 new ratings
Version:: 3.0.0.2 (Last updated: 2025-02-25)
Creation date:: 2023-10-18
Risk:: Low risk impact Moderate risk likelihood
Permissions:: storage
Size:: 24.66M
Email:: pj*****@gmail.com
URLs:: Website ,Privacy policy
Full description:: See detailed description
Source:: Chrome Web Store
Updated:: 16 hours ago

Ranking

# 14,435 ▼ 534

Other rankings

#477 in Tools ▼ 4 #16 in board keyword 23 ▲ 1 #74 in custom font keyword 36 ▲ 2 #76 in theme keyword 70 ▲ 4 #92 in release keyword 27 ▼ 6

Other platforms

Chess.com Custom Themes, Boards - ChessHelper (v3.0.0)

182 4.65

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User reviews

Users appreciate the Chrome extension for its extensive customization options for themes, boards, pieces, and overall personalization on Chess.com. It enhances the playing experience for many, offering safety and various modes. However, multiple reviews highlight frequent, annoying donation popups that disrupt gameplay and can be difficult or impossible to disable. Some users report issues with the coordinate display feature. Despite these problems, the extension is regarded positively for its customization features.

Pros

Allows extensive customization of chess boards, themes, backgrounds, and fonts
Provides a variety of board and piece theme options
Enhances user experience on Chess.com by personalizing appearance
Safe to use and generally well-liked by users
Supports different play styles (e.g., zen mode, focus mode) and offers extra features

Cons

Frequent and intrusive popups asking for donations, disrupting gameplay
Popups appear often despite using 'remind me later' and cannot be disabled
Coordinates feature on squares does not work properly or causes other issues
Popup interruptions during games can negatively affect blitz or timed matches

Recent reviews

cool

atsd, 2025-04-18

Not much to say. Basically the perfect extension. Thank you.

Noah, 2025-04-17

goood extention

-_-adam artist-_-, 2025-04-13

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Chess.com Custom Themes, Boards - ChessHelper requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

High Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.

Risk likelihood

Chess.com Custom Themes, Boards - ChessHelper is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this extension.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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