Chess.com with Chrome OS

Hi All,

I was wondering if anyone here has experience with using Chess.com on a Chromebook using the Chrome OS.  I was thinking of getting one.  I am looking for a cheap laptop to keep around the house for me and my kids to use and was wondering if this is a viable alternative.  I know the Surface RT is still quirky with Chess.com (touchscreen issues) and I am hoping that the Chromebook might work better.

Thanks.

Laser

I reserve the Chrome browser (not Chrome OS, I know) for use with chess.com because I keep Java disabled in Safari with which I do most of my browsing.    So I can't watch chess.com videos or do live chess in Safari.

I've had a chromebook for about a month now and play on chess.com every day.  I'm really happy with my purchase, but there are a few small issues with this site.  Chrome OS doesnt work well with the chess.com TV and today I'm having trouble changing my profile picture.  Other than that though I've had no problems with live chess, video lessons or anything on other sites.  Very quiet computer, takes 3 or 4 seconds to boot up or shut down.

Nice to know, thanks for the input!

I use MS Explorer and it works fine

I access the free facilities of chess.com via Chrome OS and the experience is mostly fine. Some problems:

1) Can't "play against computer" because it requires Java and Chrome OS doesn't support Java for security reasons. One of the greatest things about Chrome OS is that you can (mostly) forget about security issues - Google handles things from the cloud, or just bans things, like Java, that are problematic. 

2) I'm trying to get the fen and pgn of positions in games I've played, but the fen is corrupted. The pgn downloads, but then I have nothing to view it with.

I will certainly not be buying a diamond membership until chess.com provides all features for Chrome OS, without any glitches. That said, chess mentor seems to be working fine so I might buy a gold membership, if I encounter no problems with the free lessons.

chess.com should contact some Chrome OS users and give them free diamond membership to test these things out. (Hint... :))

Hi I bought mine here in Edinburgh and its great works just fine same as my other Laptop  that the wife has claimed I paid £180.00 for mine a real bargain.

I can relate to that and it needs be said that Chrome OS has had some interesting developpements since the last 24 months. I believe that chromebooks/chromeboxes makes for decent chess machines (and they are very affordable) as you can access every chess websites that doesn't rely on Java (Google has phased out Java in chrome for Windows/Mac/Linux anyway so that's not only a Chrome OS handicap).

That being said, Chrome OS users can't install chess engine software on their computers. This is a 'cloud operating system' and won't allow for the installation of traditional computer software, only web apps.

However, anyone can use a web-based engine, like the one provided for free by lichess: http://en.lichess.org/paste which I find quite decent for my needs (but I am no professional so..)

But anyway, I think that Chrome OS is in constant evolution, in it's infancy yet and at some point in the near future maybe we will see the Stockfish, Houdini, Fritz all available as powerful web apps.. This seems to be the future of computing. A website like chess.com and all of it's features are already in the ''cloud''.

Yes, I just played lichess on my chrome box on its highest setting (rating 2172) and it beat me convincingly! Lichess uses Stockfish, and 2172 is (surely!?) powerful. So the future is here!

I have a samsung chromebook and the screen touch was working perfectly with chess.com for about one month.  Then suddenly I cant really play on the screen with the screen touch because it does not seem to recognize the second touch to move your piece on the board.  In other words I touch the piece to be moved and it highlights but when I touch the square to which it should go, it does not respond.

I am thus forced to drag the piece to the new square but this can be very messy as your board also moves and can result in a misplaced piece during a game.

Does anyone have a solution?

Too many issues to deal with.

v3 will never get it right... the platform is a mess

Hey! I have a Chromebook and it is just like the windows 10 chess.com experience!

onichan sukurenai

I cannot play against the computer to practise.  The screen shuts off with an aw snap icon.  It returns if I tap the screen only to come back every 10 seconds  Does this mean I need Java which Chrome OS doesn't accept?