Chess.com macOS Web App — v1.4.0

This release brings a brand new app icon, replacing the previous neon knight with the official Chess.com pawn — cleaner, more recognisable, and consistent across all macOS contexts.

🎨 What's New

• New App Icon: Replaced the dark neon knight icon with the official Chess.com pawn icon, rendered from Chess.com's own SVG source. The icon now looks native and sharp at every size — in the Dock, Finder, Launchpad, and the DMG installer.
• Pixel-Perfect Icon Sizes: All 10 required macOS icon sizes (16×16 through 1024×1024) are correctly generated using Core Graphics, ensuring no blurriness or scaling artefacts at any resolution.
• Updated DMG Volume Icon: The DMG installer window now also uses the updated Chess.com pawn icon for a consistent install experience.

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📦 Installation

1. Download Chess.com.dmg from this release (or find it directly in your local Downloads folder).
2. Open the DMG and drag Chess.com to your Applications folder.

Chess.com macOS Web App — v1.0.1

This release contains critical UI/UX improvements and settings fixes for a better playing experience.

🔧 Fixes & Improvements

• Preferences Landing Page Integration: Fixed a bug where the default landing page setting (e.g. Play Online, Puzzles) selected in the Preferences window (⌘,) was ignored. The app now correctly opens your selected page on launch and loads it when clicking the "Home" icon.
• Gameplay Hover Zone Optimization: Restricted the auto-hide controls dock hover trigger area to the bottom 120pt of the window. The floating pill will no longer pop up during active chess gameplay in the center of the board, keeping your board visible and distraction-free.

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📦 Installation

1. Download Chess.com.dmg from this release (or find it directly in your local Downloads folder).
2. Open the DMG and drag Chess.com to your Applications folder.

Chess.com macOS Web App — v1.0.0

This is the initial release of the unofficial native macOS wrapper application for Chess.com, designed with modern macOS integration and premium visual design languages in mind.

🌟 Features

• Apple Liquid Glass Theme: Styled with standard Apple translucent glassmorphism materials (.ultraThinMaterial), custom green specular highlights, 3D borders, and dynamic lift hover animations (.hoverLift).
• Custom Navigation pill controls: Floating, interactive capsule navigation pill overlay at the bottom center of the window with shortcuts to:
  • Play Online 🎮
  • Puzzles 🧩
  • vs. Computer 💻
  • Lessons 🎓
• Built-in Ad-Blocker: Custom orange shield quick toggle to filter advertisements and commercial banners, keeping your chess board fully focused and clean.
• Fully Custom Settings (⌘,): Native macOS settings window allowing you to configure:
  • General: Block Ads toggle and default startup page picker (starts on Dashboard, Play, or Puzzles).
  • Shortcuts: Selectively choose which navigation buttons appear inside the bottom floating bar.
• macOS Window & Design Integration:
  • Left vertical menu padding adjusted (36px top margin) to avoid overlapping the traffic lights (close/minimize/zoom) controls.
  • Fully supports double-click titlebar zoom and window dragging.
  • Elegant, neutral-colored WebKit scrollbars visible in both dark & light modes.
• OAuth Support: Fixed popups and cookie redirections to support Google, Apple, and Facebook sign-ins completely inside the application.

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📦 Installation

1. Download Chess.com.dmg from this release.
2. Open the DMG and drag Chess.com to your Applications folder.

Chess.com macOS Web App — v1.3.1

This release contains a critical version reporting fix that resolves a false update prompt on launch.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Version Display Fix: Fixed a bug where the app incorrectly identified itself as v1.2.0 at runtime due to a missing MARKETING_VERSION bump in the build configuration. The app now correctly reports v1.3.1.
• False Update Prompt Resolved: As a side effect of the version mismatch, users on v1.3.0 were shown a spurious "update available" prompt pointing to the same release. This is now resolved — the update checker will only notify when a genuinely newer version is available on GitHub.

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📦 Installation

1. Download Chess.com.dmg from this release (or find it directly in your local Downloads folder).
2. Open the DMG and drag Chess.com to your Applications folder.

Chess.com macOS Web App — v1.3.0

🎨 Added Custom Themes

• 180+ Monkeytype Presets: Support for the complete catalog of 184 themes from Monkeytype (including Dracula, Nord, Matrix, Carbon, Retro, and more).
• Adaptive Chessboards: Chessboards are dynamically styled to match the theme color schemes, replacing default textures with matching clean vector square overlays.
• Uniform UI Styling: Overrides Chess.com's sidebar navigation, content panels, action buttons, and text layouts to create a native-themed workspace.

⚙️ Preferences & Settings

• Chess.com Theme Picker: Quickly change and switch web theme styles directly from the General preferences panel.
• AMOLED Dark Syncing: Integrated AMOLED black with custom themes (AMOLED black applies to the default Chess.com theme, while Monkeytype themes govern their own background properties).

Chess.com macOS Web App — v1.2.0

This minor release introduces native theme selection (System Default, Light, and AMOLED Dark/Pure Black) and fixes system appearance synchronization on macOS.

🌟 What's New

• Custom App Theme Selection: Choose between System Default, Light, and Dark (Pure Black) appearances directly from the native Preferences (⌘,) pane.
• Dynamic AMOLED Pure Black Mode: Forces all Chess.com board layouts, sidebars, and core background elements to pure pitch black (#000000) for high-contrast gameplay.
• Adaptive Light Theme Styling: Replaced static dark/white pill assets and window borders with dynamic macOS rendering colors for a pristine appearance in light mode.
• Instant AppKit Transition Syncing: Application delegates now listen to user preferences and dynamically update AppKit components (NSApp.appearance) on-the-fly without requiring a restart.

🔧 Fixes & Improvements

• Appearance Lock Resolved: Fixed a bug where a hardcoded AppKit launch configuration locked the wrapper and internal web components in dark mode permanently.
• Persistent HTML Class Forcing: Upgraded the JavaScript loop to actively prevent Chess.com's React engine from resetting theme classes during single-page navigations.

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📦 Installation

1. Download Chess.com.dmg from this release (or find it directly in your local Downloads folder).
2. Open the DMG and drag Chess.com to your Applications folder.

Chess.com macOS Web App — v1.0.2

This bugfix release cleans up app metadata and aligns project settings for automatic updates.

🔧 Fixes & Improvements

• Version Alignments: Incremented internal application marketing version to 1.0.2 to support version comparison compatibility in the Update Manager.
• Notification Alert String Cleanups: Corrected the notification permission string to refer to "games, tournaments, and updates" instead of Tv/show "episodes".
• Launch Category Corrected: Updated the macOS launch category from Entertainment to Games so it is cataloged correctly on your Mac.
• Handoff Activities Fixed: Updated Apple Handoff activity types from .watch to .play to match the Chess.com wrapper context.

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📦 Installation

1. Download Chess.com.dmg from this release (or find it directly in your local Downloads folder).
2. Open the DMG and drag Chess.com to your Applications folder.