Now available as an app for Android and iOS !
What is Chessconnect?
Chessconnect is a Chrome web extension, Android™, and iOS™ app that allows owners of smart chessboards to connect to various chess sites. It’s main features are:
- completely free!
- uses the official APIs of lichess.org and chess.com
- is acknowledged by both sites and absolutely legal
- works on Windows™, Mac™, Linux, Android™, iOS™, and Chrome OS™
- integrates seamlessly into chess.com, lichess.org, and other chess sites
- supports almost all electronic chess boards
- both USB and Bluetooth LE™ connections (except for iOS)
- games against bots, human opponents, live tournaments, puzzles, studies,…anything goes
- optional delay to reduce risk of mouse/board slips
- optional sound or even speech output
If you have problems or good ideas for Chessconnect, tell me about it on the
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What’s new in version 5?
- Native app for Android and iOS
- Support for puzzles, studies, and basically everything on lichess.org
- „Chessconnect TapNset Adpater“ which allows using a real chess clock with any board!
- Chessiverse!
- ChessDojo!
What chess boards can I use?
We support a large variety of smart chess boards from the following manufacturers:
- Certabo™
- Chessnut™
- ChessUp™
- DGT™
- House of Staunton™
- iChessOne™
- Millennium™
- Square Off Pro™ (requires BillyGate adapter)
- TabuTronic™
- Wuxing™
What chess sites does it work on?
Once installed in your browser, you will have Chessconnect available on these web sites.
Click the button below, to find out more on what features of these sites Chessconnect will make available for use with your smart chess board.
What operating systems does it work with?
Being a browser extension, Chessconnect runs on a large variety of platforms. It was successfully tested with the following platforms. But there might be more platforms that we just have not tested yet. If you find one that’s working, too: let us know and we add it to the list.
- macOS™
- Windows™
- Linux
- Chrome OS™
- Android™
- iOS™
Click the button below, to learn more specific details on how to use Chessconnect on any of the operating systems above.
Compatibility chart
| Windows™ | macOS™ | Linux | Android™ | iOS™ | Chrome OS | |
| Certabo™ |    | | | | | |
| Chessnut™ | | | | | | |
| ChessUp™ | | | | | | – |
| DGT™ eBoards | | | | | – | |
| DGT™ Pegasus | | | | | | – |
| House of Staunton™ | | | | | | |
| iChessOne™ | | | | | | |
| Millennium™ | | | | | | |
| Square Off Pro™ (requires BillyGate adapter) | | | | | | |
| TabuTronic™ (including Tactum™ and Spectrum™) | | | | | | |
| Wuxing™ | | | | | | |
= Bluetooth LE except for DGT eBoards which use Bluetooth Classic, =USB, Everything to the best of my knowledge and without any guarantees!Chessconnect TapNset Adapter
DGT eBoards can be equipped with a DGT3000 chess clock to further enhance the experience of over the board play. The same is true for the House of Staunton Sensory Board which can be equipped with a Zmartfun TapNset pro clock.
For any other board, there is no such option. Or was…because Zmartfun could be persuaded to develop a small and cheap adapter that together with Chessconnect enables their clock to be used with any other board! You will need to buy the adapter and a TapNset pro clock but in my humble opinion, it is well worth the money.
You can get the adapter directly from Zmartfun. I am not affiliated with Zmartfun. I simply think that this is a great product!
The adapter works with the Chrome extension and the Android app.
Contact me, if you like to get the print file.
BillyGate adapter for Square Off Pro
So far, I have been unable to initiate a cooperation with Square Off. Consequently, Chessconnect does not directly support the Square Off Pro board. However, Martin Lambert made the impossible possible and designed a small and cheap adapter that basically turns a Square Off Pro into a Chessnut compatible board. Which means that it can then be used with Chessconnect.
You can find more information about the BillyGate adapter here. And there is a nice video about BillyGate and Chessconnect here.
