# Chess Focus

> Hide distracting elements on Chess.com for a cleaner, more focused playing experience.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/chess-focus](https://chrome-stats.com/d/chess-focus)

## Overview

- **ID:** `chess-focus`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** vanzsom
- **Category:** appearance,games-entertainment
- **Daily users:** 12
- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-04-15
- **First published:** 2026-04-12
- **Size:** 94 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/chess-focus/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/vanzsom/chess-focus](https://github.com/vanzsom/chess-focus)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/chess-focus/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/chess-focus/privacy/)

## Description

Chess Focus allows you to hide various distracting elements while playing on <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/94f4992ed19757c38122b7e0a3d13ae5d5ffaa8e0db6e4242f4e618b72fdc1bd/http%3A//Chess.com" rel="nofollow">Chess.com</a> so you can just focus on the board.

Chess Focus is fully customizable, hide only what you want. You can hide the following.

– Profile Pictures
– Country Flags
– Flair Icons
– Ratings
– Player Names
– Player Titles
– Moves List Sidebar

The extension also centers the board when the moves list is hidden and allows you to resize the browser to as small as you want unlike <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/94f4992ed19757c38122b7e0a3d13ae5d5ffaa8e0db6e4242f4e618b72fdc1bd/http%3A//Chess.com" rel="nofollow">Chess.com</a>'s Focus Mode that has the board off center and breaks when resizing.

Chess Focus is open source allowing anyone to make any changes they want such as language localization. Available at <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/3073a25452c37142e66e424d37b23f654c2e22aa6a76826f0658ac86562dab87/https%3A//github.com/vanzsom/chess-focus" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/vanzsom/chess-focus</a>

Also available for Chrome.

No ads, no data collection.

## Rankings

- #31,407 — Overall
- #37 — focus
- #113 — cheese

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`

### Host permissions

- `*://*.chess.com/*`

### Content script matches

- `*.chess.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

> Some risk analysis details are omitted from this free response. [Upgrade to view the full analysis](https://chrome-stats.com/pricing).

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/chess-focus)