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Chess.com Voice Commentary

by Chess.com

v0.0.5 Updated May 22, 2022 16.13MiB
CWS
3K
Users
★ 2.21
28 reviews
#13217
of 207.3K
fun
#567 of 7.4K
⚠️Not updated in over 2 years ⚠️Below average rating

Description

**Please approve new permission, Notifications** If you're upgrading, the extension might be disabled due a new permission, Notifications, being requested in version 0.0.3. This is needed for the extension to prompt you to interact with the Chess.com page when it detects the browser blocks audio. See the 2nd screenshot for an example and https://goo.gl/xX8pDD for more. Hear chess moves and annotation spoken as they are played on Chess.com. Choose from the default voice (helpful for those who are visually challenged), or from Chess.com's top commentator IM Danny Rensch as he hilariously comments on the game. Have an issue or a suggestion? Go to https://github.com/ChessCom/chess-com-voice/issues -- What's New: -- 0.0.5 (May 22, 2022) - Pick up game change via url instead of node being added to fix game over not being read (#14) 0.0.4 (March 14, 2022) - Upgrade to Manifest V3 - Fix game over not being read (#12) 0.0.3 (March 8, 2022) - Read moves of an observed game when showing Game after clicking New Game (#6) - Avoid double reading (#5) - Gracefully fail when audio blocked and prompt user (#10) 0.0.2 (March 5, 2022) - Fixes from @rctay's fork 0.0.1: Initial release
Chess.com Voice Commentary screenshot 1Chess.com Voice Commentary screenshot 2

Reviews (19 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2024-04-30
Elias Lombardo

It is not working anymore, and there have been no updates since 2022.

★☆☆☆☆2024-02-20
Ricardo Estrella

Doesn't work but what makes it worse is them not replying to the people having problems with the issues and offering a solution. Ignoring people that have problems with this extension is not a good business practice. You are getting 1 star reviews and don't even try to solve a unhappy customers problem. A link or comment is not hard, you guys are just being lazy . Shame on you

★☆☆☆☆2023-12-31
Ercan Tuğla

It doesn't work

★☆☆☆☆2023-12-06
Brian Quass

Does not work.

★☆☆☆☆2023-01-24
James

Didn't work on /play/computer as other commenters suggested, doesn't work vs computer.

★☆☆☆☆2022-10-17
John Babel

This extension sucks you cant even fix a bug this is absolute bullcrap

★☆☆☆☆2021-02-14
Tycho Davydov

Unfortunately the extension doesn’t work at all.

★☆☆☆☆2021-01-24
Daniel

Doesn't work

★☆☆☆☆2021-01-12
Giancarlo Picardi

This thing doesn't work.

★☆☆☆☆2020-12-04
samuel numez

It works on every other site except on chess.com, That's bad for business.

★☆☆☆☆2020-11-22
Thota Srinivas

it is not working

★☆☆☆☆2020-09-08
DD MR

for some reason when I tried it , it wouldn't work! :( I don't know for what reason but chess.com please help me!

★☆☆☆☆2020-07-04
Frédéric PAILLAUGUE

From now on it doesn't work properly as the pieces are not announced : if your Knight goes to f3, it will announce only "f3", and it's a big issue because you don't know if the pawn moved to f3 or another piece... I also found a mistake when my opponent's King went to g7, it announced "Rook g7". When you wanna play without the screen, it's highly problematic. Please consider fixing this dear chess.com crew :) Thanks !

★★☆☆☆2022-03-19
Jeff Hsu

Appears not to be working in Live Chess (/live) after a recent release, only in /play. This is a problem because there are some bugs playing with DGT boards in /play so it is still necessary to use /live when playing with a DGT board. I hope the developer can fix this.

★★☆☆☆2021-01-31
Tuomas Tuomivaara

Very rarely announces moves. What could be the problem? Changing move settings from figurines to text doesn't help. I mean the dev won't reply but if anyone else has a fix?

★★☆☆☆2020-11-03
Valentin Degenne

not working... sometimes it works but during one game then if I refresh the page the sounds are not playing. This is infuriating because the script seems to work but one little bug is causing the whole program completely unusable. I hope you fix it, or maybe share the project on GitHub so developers like myself can contribute ?

★★★☆☆2021-02-24
Andrew

Unfortunately, it does not work when playing against the computer in chess.com. Odd, but there it is.

★★★☆☆2020-04-12
Carl Stephens

i tried it for the first time this afternoon, after installing the extension and activating, it didnt work during my first game. after restarting my browser and enabling again it did work. however the announcements were confusing, it was announcing pawn moves correctly so when i played e4 it would announce e4, but when either me or my opponent played any other move that wasnt a pawn, so for example a knight, it would only announce the destination square, ie i play Nf3 and it would only announce f3 this needs fixing because i often play with a DGT board connected and if i'm not watching the screen, and i hear it announce f3 thats gonna potentially cause me to move the wrong piece. please look into this. thanks !

★★★☆☆2020-03-05
Wojciech Reza

very often not working

Permissions (2)

Permissions

notifications Can show desktop notifications storage Can store data locally in your browser

Details

Version 0.0.5
Updated May 22, 2022
Size 16.13MiB
First Seen Mar 27, 2026