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    • Sorry guys....

                To all concerned..... Im 'very sorry from timing-out from our games. I just came from a very long family vacation and only to find that my computer crashed and needs to reformat and the worst part is i lost internet connection t... | Read More

    • The Dream Team Vs. Chess.com ????

      We're all members of this site and the title somehow brought dilemma to other members. "The Dream Team Vs. Chess.com" it would seem sound that this 2 team we're from 2 different sites. Chess.com have over 22,000 current members ... | Read More

    • My Second Best Game

                    Can you find the the forced 4 move mate?               white to move...  | Read More

    • My Best Game

      Here's my best game ever played at chess.com. During my first game with a new found friend, I got a good game in the opening until the middle game, but as expected, I cannot properly make use of my advantage leading to a defeat instead of winn... | Read More

    • live chess

      While only a handful of my friends were on-line, I tried to play in live chess. Won my first game after my ratings was resetted to 1200, then lost a in two games due to limited time. Did not noticed that the game I accepted was Blitz for 5 minutes... | Read More

    • severe frustration and disappointment!!!

      I don't know what happenned and it seems something is wrong! Due to unavoidable situation.... i paused my games by availing the vacation features and posting a blog at the same time to somehow give notice to my opponents of the reason for the ... | Read More

    • Sorry guys...

      To all my current opponents and friends:  I have paused by games temporarily for 2-3 days. An accident occured at work and my immediate attention is needed for hospitalization needs and assistance of our employee. The situation calls for unt... | Read More

    • cheating for real

      I have been reading a lot of posts in forums and it struck my interest. Cheaters can be kicked-out and they can make a new account over and over again....but the point is how to prevent them? It would be very hard and time consuming.. There were p... | Read More

    • 8 days of frustration

      It's been 7 frustrating days without Internet connection, i just got connected this morning tried to send message to everyone of my opponents saying sorry for timing-out of our game. I really felt sorry, my opponents have exerted efforts and t... | Read More

    • DSL Internet Provided Service Failure

      It's past 12:10pm here in the Philippines, and since this morning the DSL Facilities in my area were down again!!! Very frustrating...... I had to travel and find internet cafe to just to make my move in order not to time-out in my current ga... | Read More