Your favorite board colors and pieces style?

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Tee

i like using any of the plain two color boards (green, purple, brown, and sky for a few examples) with neo pieces, and ill often upload a color that matches the board as my background.

this is how it looks right now:

ImNotAJ_YT
Durian_Defense wrote:

Hi Y'all

I'm thinking of doing a free Twitch or Youtube 'seminar'/demonstration of how to do customise chess.com chess pieces/chessboard/screens one evening. Using Stylus and basic Chrome Inspect and CSS.

You will know how to :-
1. Add an live animated gif/wallpaper as your background
2. Replace the chess.com pieces with Lich... pieces and vice-versa
3. Change the chessboard of the Main play board, Analysis board and the mini-board in the Analysis screen
4. Make the chessboard as an animated background (yes this can be done!)
5. Customise the font, color, and size of Username, Rating, Timer, Evaluation Bar etc.

In fact, if you happen to also play on Lich... platform, there are even more free tools available to do the opposite! It is easier to make your Lich... screens look like Chess.com than to make your Chess.com screen look like Lich...enstein(?) screens.

I do almost all of the above in my twitch.tv/durian_defense streams. If anyone is interested to know how to do 1 to 5., do let me know by DM'ing me. I am curious to know how many chess.com users are keen to do this customisation thingy.

Regards
Frankie Kam

Sounds Interesting

Marcyful
CAMikaze385 wrote:

May as well jump into the conversation.

 

My normal board settings...

Pieces: 3D - Staunton
Board: Burled Wood
Coordinates: Inside
Animation Type: Medium (Default)
Sounds: Default

Come time for Tata Steel Chess however, I change it up a little.

Pieces: Metal
Board: Metal
Coordinates: Inside
Animation Type: Medium (Default)
Sounds: Default

 

And whenever I'm involved in a Vote Chess Match with some of the Clubs I'm in, I post my move suggestions with the Newspaper theme.

Pieces: Newspaper
Board: Newspaper
Coordinates: Inside
Animation Type: Medium (Default)
Sounds: Default

 

That's quite a creative way of using different themes for different occasions. 

ChessDogeNiranjan

Pieces: Book

Board: Brown

Anonymous_user287

Board= Glass (White and dark blue squares) 

Piece= Glass




 

lapopocita

My favorite is the wood board 

 

brainako

Personally, I like to keep it simple with the board being Green and the pieces being Neo. The simplistic look on the pieces really captured my admiration.

littlegrapewa

I like purple board with sky pieces

Very calming

 

 

Alchessblitz

 

Durian_Defense

This is mine. A streamer-coloured neon-ish gradient background. 

The pieces are a custom-modded Grafitti piece set with added depth of shadow to its outline to make the pieces stand out more. I prefer this to the standard Grafitti set of chess.com. 

Marcyful
Durian_Defense wrote:

This is mine. A streamer-coloured neon-ish gradient background. 

 

The pieces are a custom-modded Grafitti piece set with added depth of shadow to its outline to make the pieces stand out more. I prefer this to the standard Grafitti set of chess.com. 

Looks fabulous

BadBishop03

This is my favorite style that suits with my hexagon background

 

Max_Pro7

 

lfPatriotGames
BadBishop03 wrote:

This is my favorite style that suits with my hexagon background

 

I don't like this one because the king looks like a disgruntled cartoon character. 

Fire

board goes kinda well with my backround

Varooka

After using a few different sets previously, I now use my favourite

 

 

Board - Icy Sea

Pieces - Icy Sea

Duck

 

cokezerochess22

Space pieces Sky background for ipad  space background for iphone marble noises icy sea board 

BadBishop03
Fire wrote:

board goes kinda well with my backround

That pieces is actually based on light like mine but with different colors. Some pieces are based on light.

This is light

Neon has the same shape as light

 

And graffiti all is base on light, I say light is the base because it has the normal colors.

TheSwissPhoenix

Neon for life