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SideChess — Play Chess in the Side Panel

Chrome extension by sholomon84 · Lifestyle · Games

A Chrome extension in Lifestyle · Games with 17 users, barely installed.

No site access is declared in the manifest, so it cannot read the pages you open on its own.

What the developer says, and 2 screenshots

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Users
17
Rating
not rated yet
Users, last 15 days
+4
Version
1.0.0
Updated in the store
2026-05-16
Published
2026-05-16
Manifest
V3
Browser access
2 permissions

How it has moved

Users
+4 since 01.09
13-17 · 5 readings
  1. 2026-09-0113
  2. 2026-09-0513
  3. 2026-09-0814
  4. 2026-09-0915
  5. 2026-09-1517
Users
+4 since 01.09
13-17 · 5 readings
  1. 2026-09-0113
  2. 2026-09-0513
  3. 2026-09-0814
  4. 2026-09-0915
  5. 2026-09-1517

A dot marks a day the store showed a different number. Between them the line carries the last one forward: we read every listing more than once a day and record a point only when something moves. History beyond ninety days is in the app.

What it can reach

No site access is declared in the manifest, so it cannot read the pages you open on its own.

  • Open a panel beside the page sidePanel
  • Store data in your browser storage

The full permission history for this extension

What changed recently

Nothing has moved on this listing since we started watching it.

The publisher

sholomon84 publishes 7 listings we track, 98 users between them.

  1. ScreenTape - Calibrated Tape Measure sholomon84 · Productivity · Tools · published 2026-01-24 28 users
  2. Green Stripe Timer sholomon84 · Productivity · Workflow · published 2025-02-11 20 users
  3. chess life sholomon84 · Art · published 2024-12-17 17 users ★ 5.0
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  1. KeyLens Pro: Smart Keyword Highlighter sholomon84 · Productivity · Tools · published 2026-02-21 8 users
  2. Grabbox sholomon84 · Productivity · Tools · published 2026-03-01 5 users
  3. MouseCrop sholomon84 · Productivity · Tools · published 2026-01-21 3 users

Like this one

Listings the catalog judges closest in what they say they do.

  1. Chess - Play & Learn Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 44 users
  2. Stockfish Chess Engine Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 3k users ★ 3.7
  3. Advanced Chess - Sidebar Game Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 66 users
  4. Chess Sidebar Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 14 users
  5. QuickChess Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 19 users

The top 5 only. The full comparison, with why each one is close, is on the alternatives page; ranking a whole neighbourhood by your own criteria is in the app.

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