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Cant we have an option to center the board and hide analytic. Sometimes the board feels so small, I can't focus on the game. The side bar with the stats and recorded move is so big I feel like that' the real game. Center the board, minimal stats and and option to hide and view those. 

PLEASE

bsrti

There is mode in settings, it is called focus mode.

You can find it in your account settings.

Martin_Stahl
bsrti wrote:

There is mode in settings, it is called focus mode.

You can find it in your account settings.

 

In Setting it can be turned on by default. Hovering the mouse over the upper-right of the board will give the icon to put in Focus mode as well.

 

https://support.chess.com/article/859-what-is-focus-mode-how-do-i-turn-it-on

m1szza

I have the same problem. Focuse mode dontt solve it, board still is in a left side of screen. Do you know how can i switch board to middle?

 

Martin_Stahl
m1szza wrote:

I have the same problem. Focuse mode dontt solve it, board still is in a left side of screen. Do you know how can i switch board to middle?

 

 

There's no other site provided option to do that.

tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

i mean, just put the board in the center! what were they thinking!

Alberturkey

Even focus mode doesn't centre the board though. It just hides the side UI. Super annoying.

tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

yes!!! it is so beyond that i think there's money reason behind it. Like that a mysterious and powerful organization holds the rights to have things in the center of the f screen where every f person looks.
Omq you got me hyperventilating Alberturkey. I was almost succesful in forgetting the f board on the side of chess.com.

teentii

pls put an option to set the board centered in the tab :=(

Clockwork_Nemesis
Play on your phone
tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

i work on my phone kezzerdrix, i can only play on my computer.

xShenJingbingx

I made a lazy tampermonkey skript which centers the board in focus mode

// ==UserScript==
// @name Chess com board script
// @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version 0.1
// @description Center Chess.com board
// @author ShenJingBing
// @match https://www.chess.com/*

// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
getElementsByClassName("opened-chats-container")[0].setAttribute("style", "margin-left: 35vh !important;")
}
)();

tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

aaa nice man, i don't know how to use it but thanks! I hope chess.com buys it from you. If it works, they can make you CEO as far as i'm concerned.

t3esla

I've coded a browser extension to centralize the board in chess.com, how to use:
If you are using Firefox, go to : Board Centralizer

If you are using Chrome (or similar) or want to install and inspect the code by yourself, go to: BoardCentralizerGithub

If you are using Chrome (or similar) but don't want to install the extension by yourself, in order to allow me to create a Chrome Web Store account and publish the extension, please consider donate $5 to my PayPal BoardCentralizerPayPal. The license of the extension is MIT, therefore anybody with the means to publish it is free to do it.

Baabashi
xShenJingbingx wrote:

I made a lazy tampermonkey skript which centers the board in focus mode

// ==UserScript==
// @name Chess com board script
// @namespace https://tampermonkey.net/// @version 0.1
// @description Center Chess.com board
// @author ShenJingBing
// @match https://www.chess.com/*

// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
getElementsByClassName("opened-chats-container")[0].setAttribute("style", "margin-left: 35vh !important;")
}
)();

TamperMonkey error says "getElementsByClassName is not defined."

t3esla

@Baabashi
Use this extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/board-centralizer/

small-titan

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/site-feedback/screen-layout-of-widgets

Upvote and bump so staff see it!

You have to post this stuff in "site feedback".

Baabashi
t3esla wrote:

Not sure how to use it with Chrome and I don't want to use FireFox.

small-titan

Thanks for the extension it works.

t3esla

@Baabashi You can download the code directly from the GitHub and add it manually: https://github.com/Adrian-Oliveira/BoardCentralizer/tree/production

You only need to extract the files and load it in chrome://extensions/ with the developer mode on (make sure to load the chrome folder).