ChessSkins by Nik

Tired of the same six silhouettes? ChessSkins gives your chess games a wardrobe — on both lichess.org and chess.com.

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 & 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 & 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: https://github.com/NikAgs/ChessSkins

ChessSkins is a fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by lichess.org or chess.com.