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 (
36pxtop 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.
- Left vertical menu padding adjusted (
- OAuth Support: Fixed popups and cookie redirections to support Google, Apple, and Facebook sign-ins completely inside the application.
📦 Installation
- Download
Chess.com.dmgfrom this release. - Open the DMG and drag Chess.com to your Applications folder.