How to hide your opponent's rating? - Solved

For this, you need to be using adblock. If not, add it to chrome or firefox, it's really useful.

If you've always wanted to not look at your opponent's rating while you play, then here is your solution.

If you've added adblock, you should see an icon on the top right corner of your screen. Like this -

Click on that icon, select options - 

A new tab should open now. Click on CUSTOMIZE -

Click "edit" beside Manually edit filters and paste this code -

                                                                                                                   live.chess.com##[id^="white_player_rating_"]      

   live.chess.com##[id^="black_player_rating_"]

Click "Save". Your page should look something like this-

I'm playing much better now!

I like this idea. It would be nice if it were implemented as an option on the live chess interface settings.

Another thing to do is hiding the message inside the chat text box that states the number of points that you win or lose because it's easy to deduce from this if the opponent is lower, higher or similarly rated compared to you.

Lol, wouldn't that be too distracting?

That's a good suggestion, it shouldn't be very hard to implement though. Wait, let me give it a try.

There you go, paste this code after those 2 lines -

live.chess.com##[class^="icn icngame"]

And you wont see that message anymore. You can look at your game archive later to find out your opponent's rating.

Thanks man, just came out of a mute!

@yuri How do you think you would play against a 2500 rated guy if you saw his rating at the start of the game? Again, how would you play if his rating was hidden?

I think your play would vary drastically, the 2500 rating will definitely intimidate you and make you play "safe" moves instead of your normal moves. Hiding your opponent's rating prevents this.

Well, this whole hiding the rating thing is not for you then :)

or you can just make your background white  with black stripes right in that area so you can't see it

Gee thanks

That would work I guess

I solved it hereby

chess.com##div[class^="board-player-userTagline"]
chess.com##div[class^="chat-stream-component"]

I look at the rating then tell myself to forget it.  That doesn't work too well.

If anyone still struggling then here you go with new code

www.chess.com##SPAN[class="user-tagline-rating user-tagline-dark"]
www.chess.com##SPAN[class="user-rating"]

You could just play on lichess and use zen mode which hides everything, including ratings, other than the game itself. 

I just made a post about this, someone told me to click on the 4 arrows at the top right of the board....thats zen mode

Thanks, king

Do you also know how to hide the "win +8 / draw 0 / lose -8" thing in the chat?

Hey guys here from 2022. So this is what I use to comprehensively conceal all the ratings during a game (user ratings, chat rating, win-loss points deduction etc).

Just copy and paste the following into Chrome AdBlock's customization filter:

www.chess.com##[id^="white_player_rating_"]
www.chess.com##SPAN[class="user-rating"]
live.chess.com##[class^="icn icngame"]
chess.com##div[class^="board-player-userTagline"]
chess.com##div[class^="chat-stream-component"]
www.chess.com##SPAN[class="user-tagline-rating user-tagline-dark"]
www.chess.com##SPAN[class="live-game-start-component"]
www.chess.com##[class="live-game-start-component"]
www.chess.com##[class="chat-scroll-area-component"]
chess.com##div[class^="chat-scroll-area-component"]

Check my comment. Using that code, it should solve your issue.