RULES OF BEHAVIOR Chess.com is a friendly community. The following
behavior is prohibited and can result in your being kicked or banned:
- CHEATING
- ACCUSATIONS OF CHEATING - 'NAMING/SHAMING' - OFFENSIVE/VULGAR...
Lag is a term indicating the latency (i.e. tendency for delay) of a particular Internet connection.
More lag means a longer time is required for a player's moves to be communicated to the game server, which can make it ...
PREMOVES are moves you can make _before_ it's your turn - while your
opponent is still thinking!
For example, let's say you would like to castle on the next move NO
MATTER WHAT move is played by your opponent. The...
In Live Chess, the 'Draw' button is generally used to offer your
opponent a draw, which may be accepted or declined. However, in the
instance of Three-fold Repetition, you can use the 'Draw' button to
claim a draw, wi...
MAKING font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">As long as your
friend is a member of Chess.com the first step is to get the member
onto your Chess.com Friends list. (If you've already done that part,
great!)
...
With thousands of chess games being played on our system every day,
we are pretty confident that it's not possible for someone to make an
illegal move.
Most of the time, newer chess players are not familiar with so...
Chess.com is a global community of chess players. And while 99% of our members are wonderful, you may occasionally encounter somebody who is rude or offensive. Unfortunately, we cannot police every word said between ever...
PLEASE NOTE:
* UNRATED GAMES DO NOT AFFECT YOUR RATING (you can tell if a game is
rated or not by looking on the "Details" tab to the right of the
board)
Abort - No effect on ratings
Resign- Affects ratings imme...
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Chess.com is a friendly community. The following behavior is
prohibited and can result in your being kicked or banned:
* Cheating
* Accusations of cheating (naming/shaming)
* Offensiv...
Don't worry - the clocks are not broken. This jumping is caused either by Internet lag, or because of bonus time. Here is how lag works on chess.com:
You make a move, the move gets sent to our server, & then your opp...
Live Chess has three different ratings based on different time
controls:
BULLET RATING - For games under 3 minutes.
BLITZ RATING - For games of 3 minutes to 14 minutes.
STANDARD RATING - For games 15 minutes ...
TIME CONTROLS - Games on Live Chess are always timed. Conventionally,
there are two numbers required to describe the time control:
* the first number is how many minutes you have to make all of your
moves. 5|
* ...
Computer Analysis is an instructive feature that gives you an "expert opinion" on games you've played at Chess.com. See where you (or your opponent) missed opportunities, and give yourself a chance to really l...
Moving the chess pieces is easy!
You can either drag the pieces with your mouse, or click on the piece and then again on its destination square.
keywords: move, pieces, destination, click, mouse movement piece
To chat, simply type into the white text box found in your current
game tab and hit the ENTER key on your keyboard.
We also have many chat rooms that you can choose from. To go to one,
simply click the
"CHAT" t...
Go into your live chess games history or Online games history page.
http://www.chess.com/echess/myhome.html
http://www.chess.com/home/my_archive.html?show=live
Click on View to the right of the game you want the pgn for....
Once you have uploaded a new avatar, and pressed F5 (refresh) to check that it looks right on your profile, you may still need to be patient..
It can take up to 24 hours before a new avatar shows by your username in Live...
We're sorry you're having difficulties with Live Chess. Here are a couple of tricks that solve people's problems in many cases:
Do a hard refresh. On a PC you can do this by pressing Ctrl + F5. On a Mac, use Comma...
When you see your friend chatting in the main live chess chatroom, click on their username. A menu will appear.
On the menu, choose "Add to Friend List".
The other user has three options, once they see the request:...
To play without chat messages during the game you can click the "disable chat" link in the upper right corner of the messages window. Once this has been disabled, it cannot be re-enabled for that game. Also, if you pref...
When you are reviewing the output from a Computer Analysis of a game, it can be useful to know how terms like "inaccuracy," "mistake," and "blunder" compare to each other.
Assuming the position is roughly even (no big ad...
Premium members may use text commands in a variety of ways (see below). All members can use /h or /help (+ text) to send questions to Help & Support.
In-Game Commands are typed into the game chat box: /abort...
The Seek Graph provides an alternative and more graphical view of
open challenges in Live Chess
The HORIZONTAL ROW shows the time of the game in minutes, the
VERTICAL ROW shows player ratings. (See this article [1]...
Live Post-Game Analysis This feature can only be initiated by platinum and diamond members only. Gold members and basic members can observe the game. Once your live chess game has finished, you and your opponent ...
LIVE ANALYSIS BOARDS provide an interactive & graphical tool for
analysing chess positions and games in real time - one on one, with a
whole group, or with anyone who cares to tune in. Now you can go
through games aft...
PGN (Portable Game Notation) is an easy-to-read format which records both the moves of the game (in standard algebraic notation) and any related data such as the names of the players, the winner/loser, and even the date ...
Live Chess Voice Chat allows members to speak to each other naturally during games or analysis sessions. Of course, speakers and a microphone are required to hear and to be heard. In most cases where there ...
Chess.com encourages players to be kind and show good sportsmanship.
Our Fair Play policy expects that players will not...
* intentionally disconnect during games
* stall to make opponents wait unnecessarily
*...
ON 2011.04.19 LIVE CHESS GOT A BRAND NEW LOOK!
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS?
* More user friendly
* Same overall interface for Simple and Premium versions
* After a game, you can create a new challenge of the same...
Unfortunately, having an excellent Internet connection doesn't mean you won't see an occasional disconnect. There are a number of things that could result in disconnection from the chess server:
Not having cleared cook...
Chess.com members can leave comments on games - just as they can with other kinds of user-generated content (blogs, articles, forum posts, etc.).
In the case of Online Chess, we don't want outside interference in the out...
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New tournaments start EVERY 15 MINUTES, around the clock, and offer a
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All games are saved in your games archive. We do not delete any
games.
Basic members can only view the most recent 30 days of their games
history. Premium [1]members can view all of their games archive
If you ch...
