Avoid addiction or tilt from chess with a browser extension

Hi everyone,

recently, I've encountered a problem of playing far too much chess every day. And I saw from other threads on this forum that I am not the only one.

I play chess in Mozilla Firefox and I have some experience with web development, so I made a small browser extension. You can download it on this site.

The function of the extension is pretty straightforward. It keeps track of how many games you play in one day. You can set yourself a limit (default is 3 games a day) after which you cannot play more. You can check the source code here on GitHub.

The extension is currently available only for Mozilla Firefox. But I can also add it for Google Chrome if you are interested.

Any kind of feedback is welcome!

This is really cool! One request... can you make it password protected? Not your fault of course but the first time I used it I simply removed it lol. I reinstalled it after about 2 hours.

And on tilt... I struggle with that so much! Especially late at night. It doesn't help that that's about the only time I have in the day to play

Hi, I am glad you find it useful.

I am afraid I cannot prevent users from uninstalling the extension (or only with a password). But you can set the limit (e. g. four games a day) and then remove the extension icon from the toolbar. It's harder to uninstall it then.

Whenever you lose a game, stop playing and analyse it first.
That prevents tilt and addiction and makes you improve by learning from your mistakes.

maybe you cant play another game after x time, so that you can be made to analyze as separately calculating that is impossible

Maybe we should find a way to make the brain literally hurt from too much exertion. I mean nobody needs an app to tell them when it's a good time to stop pumping iron once the muscles start getting sore and ineffective.

I think a better solution would be to hire a ruler-toting Catholic nun to stand over you while you're logged in to the site...

Thanks so much! I was looking for just this and was planning to develop it if it didn't exist yet.

I adapted your code slightly and made it available for chrome:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chesscom-daily-games-limi/aljcnilnekapfjdcfhkgbfdhhkngliop

Hi, that's great, thank you very much!