Customize your Chess.com experience with various chess piece skins and sounds
Users
61
+16 in 30 days
Rating
5.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
1
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#95K
#84K among extensions
Version
1.2.0
updated 25 Oct 2026
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monthly, 2 years
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About Chess Skin Changer
Give your Chess.com games a new look. Chess Skin Changer swaps the chess pieces on Chess.com for themed sets, adds matching move sounds and lets you upload your own pieces.
★ 5 PIECE SETS
• Animal: lion king, zebra knight and friends, with themed sounds and a board texture
• Casino: playing-card royals and a jackpot rook, with themed sounds
• Machine: mechanical pieces with gears and LEDs, with themed sounds
• Horror (new): skulls, a haunted tower and a reaper bishop
• Frankenstein vs Dracula (new): inspired by the Vienna Game's Frankenstein–Dracula Variation (1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bc4 Nxe4). White plays as Frankenstein's monster, Black as Count Dracula.
Every set keeps the familiar piece shapes, so you can still read the board at a glance.
★ YOUR OWN PIECES
Put 12 PNG images (wk.png, wq.png … bp.png) in a folder and upload it. A checklist shows which files are found and which are missing, and the skin name is filled in from the folder name. You can also add an optional board image (grid.png). Uploaded skins stay on your device.
★ SIMPLE CONTROLS
• Turn skins on or off with one switch
• Preview every set on a mini board before applying it
• Sound and board texture toggles
★ HOW TO USE
1. Click the Chess Skin Changer icon in your toolbar
2. Turn the switch On
3. Pick a set with the arrows and press "Apply skin"
4. Your Chess.com tab reloads with the new pieces
★ PRIVACY
Runs only on chess.com. No account, no tracking, no analytics, and no data is collected. Your settings are saved in Chrome's own extension storage.
★ WHAT'S NEW IN 1.2
• Two new sets: Horror and Frankenstein vs Dracula
• Redesigned popup in a Chess.com-style dark theme
• Easier custom uploads with a live file checklist
• Settings now apply to open Chess.com tabs right away
• Bug fixes
Chess Skin Changer is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Chess.com.