Chess.com Keyboard chrome extension

What is Chess.com Keyboard?

Chess.com Keyboard is a accessibility chrome extension. it's a free extension , it has 2,000+ active users since released its first version, it earns an average rating of 4.30 from 23 rated user, last update is 586 days ago.

What’s new in version 6.3.1?

                Make moves with keyboard on Chess.com website!

This way of moving pieces may enhance your board vision skills; it can also be used to improve chess.com interface accessibility.

Two formats are supported now: algebraic (Nf3, 0-0) and UCI (e2e4 or e7e8q)

Chess.com Keyboard is free open-source software: https://github.com/everyonesdesign/Chess-Helper

Check out development roadmap in Trello: https://trello.com/b/xaiPLyB0

☕ If you like the extension you can buy a coffee for the author here:
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CHANGELOG:

6.3.1
- Clean up input after moves with component board
- Dependencies updates

6.2.0
- Improve conflicts resolution between pawns and bishops

6.1.1
- Fix area highlighting for component chessboard

6.1.0
- Resolve moves like "bb6" as bishop moves (to avoid bishop-pawn ambiguity)

6.0.0
- Allow lower-case algebraic moves (thanks @sehe for the contributions)
- Migrate the extension to manifest v3
- Rewrite moves parsing core (parsers can return more than 1 move). This change allows to handle moves more intelligently in difficult cases

5.5.2
- Fix puzzle solution check when promotion is the last move

5.5.1
- Fix blindfold mode initialization

5.5.0
- Persist "blindfold" mode state between page reloads
- Prevent submitting promotion moves without promotion piece type (fixes some issues with promotion)
- Clean up unused pieces of code
- Update dependencies

5.4.0
- Fix the extension for newer version of chess.com (canvas board)
- Fix the functionality when the board is flipped
- Automatically submit move in daily chess
- Fix issues with highlights not cleaning up sometimes
- Fix move clearing on Esc press

5.3.1
- Fix the functionality for some users (due to new canvas element usage on chess.com)
- Allow players to make a move in analysis mode

5.3.0
- UCI support
- Fix arrows and squares drawing on Play (BETA) page

5.2.0
- Fix an issue with initialization when Chess.com locale isn't supported
- Dependencies updated
- Minor refactoring

5.1.0
- Trying to fix "live" chess for some users

5.0.0
- Migrate to TypeScript
- Add technical possibility to localize interface
- Add Russian translation
- Support yet another type of beta Chess.com chessboard ('chess-board' component)
- Fixed some rendering issues (fix positioning of ambiguous moves highlighting) on Live board
- Update some package dependencies to make sure the app doesn't have vulnerabilities

4.0.0 (and you thought Christmas was over ?)
- Fix promotion on Vue.js chessboards (e.g. live chess or analysis board)
- Allow making move for your opponent when you're analyzing games
- Remove GA (to comply with Firefox add-on store)

3.3.0
- Support new chess.com markup (#board-layout-main)
- Update dependencies versions

3.2.1
- Update dependencies versions

3.2.0
- Fix live app re-rendering

3.1.0
- Fix Ctrl-peeking for Blindfold mode
- Optimize beta chessboard arrows re-rendering

3.0.0
- Support for beta chessboard

2.0.0 (big release ?)
- Blindfold mode for fun and for learning!
- Commands support (draw and resign)
- Init on lessons pages
- Fix init for live app in some cases

1.5.1
- Fix width issue on layout with sidebar

1.5.0
- Prevent castling for your opponents ?
- Fix promotion syntax in live chess

1.4.0
- Squares highlighting set by right mouse clicks are preserved
- Fix bug with extension preventing pieces dragging
- Ignore "C" shortcut if any modifier key is pressed (e.g. for copying)
- Optimize arrows and squares painting method 
- A11y: create label for the input
- A11y: add aria-hidden attribute to chessboard element

1.3.0
- Support algebraic notation for promotions (e.g. d8=N)
- Enable extension on analysis boards

1.2.0
- Fixed a bug "it is possible to make moves for the opponent" (Yes, you could do it! Now it's over, rules are rules ?)
- Clear input on valid move submit only
- Clear ambiguous moves even if the move was made by mouse
- Update app styles to make the field more stylish and readable
- Fix a bug with notification falling behind the menu
- Redraw arrows not only on field change, but also after opponent makes his move

1.1.0
- Highlight pieces on ambiguous moves
- Focus on start of the extension
- Create a way to focus the field from keyboard
- Enable extension on Tactics chessboard

1.0.0
- Algebraic notation support ???
- Tech staff: bugs fixing, optimisations etc.

0.0.3
- Updating manifest to fix the icon
- Fix plugin appearance on live app page
- Clear input on Escape key            

How to install Chess.com Keyboard?

You could download the latest version crx file or older version files and install it.

Preview of Chess.com Keyboard

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Reviews of chess.com keyboard:

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Daniel Fonseca August 19th, 2022

Great extension, was considering developing something like this myself (Mac user, touchpad is very slow/cumbersome) but first searched for prior art.. and this is a work of art!

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tahk ky April 21st, 2022

very good, except for a couple of things -text box still visible in analysis screens and when watching other peoples games, where it doesnt work -cant premove recaptures in games personally i dont get the preference of typing the moves over just moving the pieces other than eliminating mouseslips, but typos still happen too. i like how you have to press enter to confirm moves incase of typos, but its simply too slow a moving option for gamemodes like blitz and bullet. definitely coded well however, and fun to use on the odd occasion

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뽜밹렄딬 October 31st, 2021

- Castling doesn't work on Fischer Random. Also, 0-0/0-0-0 is the right notation so this should be an option too. - It would be nice if the move field gets auto cleared when you input invalid notation. Along with sound alert: this will feel more haptic than text alert. -It would also be nice to have premoves, alerting if the move becomes illegal. Lichess keyboard system is quite good and should be a good reference.

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