Live Chess Chat

Hello there fellow Chess players. A few years ago on Live Chess we had a lovely chatroom to talk to each other and as you have most likely noticed, this is no longer a thing. I really miss having this so I have come up with a solution, I made one! This is on something called Discord that some of you may have heard of. The easiest way to explain it is IRC chat meets Teamspeak. The advantage this has over Teamspeak, Vent and Mumble is you don’t have to download anything, it is a web based app but you can download the desktop app if you desire. This has the same advantages of the old Live Chess chat, we can moderate it and have separate channels and also have voice channels as well if anyone so desires that.

So to come along and join here is the link

https://discord.gg/0oGskETrLys1D5e6

and here is a screenshot of the Desktop app

Please feel free to come and join me.

If you have any questions and don't want to jump right in, please feel free to send me a message here.

You could just create a group here for general chat or join another group that already does that, since chat is now primarily group based in Live.

I would be leery of using another app like that for chat, when on Live, as it could potentially cause lag, especially if planning on playing games at the time. 

Cause Lag? Kind of connection have you got? It's just like using teamspeak whilst playing a game on your computer only this has far more features and advantages.

Lag isn't just caused by the quality of your connection. It can also be caused by other programs on your system, by other tabs/processes in your browser, and things like plugins (Flash can do it for sure).

I'm not saying that particular chat option will cause lag, just that it potentially can.

This programme causes no lag on your system, you would have to have a pretty bad setup, for example I have the actual app and it takes 24Mb of Ram and hardly touches the CPU. You should look into Discord on its own.

If the program uses any resources it can potentially cause lag. For general browsing, processes that can buffer, and things that handle random TCP resets/resends well, the program will likely cause no issues. 

Live is a little more real-time and in blitz and bullet time controls,  even little performance issues that may cause even minor amounts of lag, and even disconnects, can potentially impact games.

Even the site suggests minimizing processes to limit disconnects and the same things mentioned can cause lag.

https://support.chess.com/customer/en/portal/articles/1444918-my-internet-connection-is-fine---why-am-i-getting-disconnects-

Again, I'm not saying it will cause problems. It might not. It might for some people. 

Come on, seriously? This is Chess. On a Browser. Hardly streaming Twitch whilst playing Crysis 3. If people’s systems can’t handle being on live chess and having another tab open then I think they need an upgrade. Let’s just say then this is for the majority of Personal Computers out there that can handle having two programmes open at once, without even being dual core or multi thread processors. Having a general real time Chess chat, that also has voice communication so you can chat whilst you play live, on tactics, watching videos and daily chess I think is a nice thing.

You would think that.  However, just look through the forums and see how many people have problems with lag and disconnects.

It is still a small number of users,  compared to how many play on the site, but some are helped by limiting what they have running while actively playing Live.

I have seen lag caused by Flash being loaded in memory, via the plugin-container in Firefox, even though it wasn't actively processing Flash content. On a machine with a quad-core proceesor with sufficient memory for what was loaded at the time. 

Hardware only gets you so far 

Yeah that one specific example of software messing up when the hardware was sufficient is nice but for example I still sometimes fall up the stairs even though I have the hardware to get up them properly. Windows sometimes just crashes just because it can. I still turn my computer on and use it. It's nice that you are playing to the maybe 5% (think that is generous) of people who have problems on playing Chess Live specifically. Let’s just say that if people want to have a nice live chat about Chess, without joining the many groups on Chess.com to leave notes or more forum posts then this is an option. You don’t even have to be on Chess.com to use it! It’s a unified thing, much like using Teamspeak, Ventrillo and Mumble like a lot of Gamers do, whilst they run games in the background and live to tell the tale.

My example was just a basic one.  There are others. 

Losing 1 or 2 seconds here or there over a minute or two time-frame might not mean that much in most games, but in bullet and blittz, that could mean losing on time.  

Hopefully, some people get interested and join you in that chat and don't have performance problems. 

Caveat utilitor.

Love this!

Thanks Danny

If you were interested in finding other people to chess voice chat with join me at discord.me/chessvoicechat . Thanks

Can you please repost the invite it has expired

ok

WHY DO YOU USE WHITE DISCORD

The link is invalid do you mind updating your post with a valid link, make sure you do this https://gyazo.com/860d0975e6dd3791c28605a4e0977eeb and click generate link so we can have a link that works forever (so long as it doesn't get removed in the server settings)