What Chat Commands can I Use in Live Chess?

There is a large variety of chat commands you can use in live chess! To see a list of all of them, type /help in the chat window. 

List of general commands:

• /sound /sounds    Toggles sound.
• /follow    Follows a member's games / prints a list of followed members. Example: /follow Bishop or /follow
• /unfollow    Stops following a member / stops following all. Example: /unfollow Bishop or /unfollow
• /friend    Sends a friend request. Example: /friend Bishop
• /observe    Observes ongoing member's games. Example: /observe Bishop
• /ping    Checks my lag or a member's lag. When in a game, it checks both players' lag. Example: /ping or /ping Bishop
• /examine /analysis    Opens an Analysis board. If you are in a game, it opens a board to analyze together the recently finished game.
• /archive /history    Loads a member's games archive. Example: /archive Bishopor /archive
• /top    Observes top games of the type bullet, blitz, standard or friend. Example: /top friend, /top blitz
• /quit /exit    Quits Live Chess.
• /1,3,5,10    {0} Creates a seek of 0 minutes.|{1} Creates a seek of 1 minute.|]1,Inf] Creates a seek of 1,3,5,10 minutes.
• /seek    Creates a seek with specified clock settings. Example: /seek 5 0
• /play /challenge    Challenges a member with specified clock settings. Example: /play Bishop 2 12  - if you want the game to be unrated, add ‘u’ at the end. Example: /play Bishop 2 12 u
• /accept    Accepts last challenge received.
• /decline    Declines last challenge received.
• /match    Starts a game between two players. Example: /match Knight Bishop 5 0 rated
• /partner /+partner    Request bughouse partnership. Example: /partner Bishop
• /nopartner /-partner    Leave bughouse partnership. Example: /nopartner
• /tell /t    Sends a chat request. Example: /tell Bishop How was your vacation?
• /chat /c    Sends a chat request. Example: /chat Bishop
• /best /rank    Opens a tab with a histogram of the best live chess players. Example /best or /best bullet
• /finger /profile /f /fi /info /who    Shows a member's profile information. Example: /finger Bishop
• /stats /stat /statistics    Displays specified player's statistics. Example: /stats Bishop
• /messages    Takes you to the messaging board
• /password    Takes you to the change password page
• /refer    Takes you to the refer to friends page

List of Game commands:

• /friend    Sends a friend request. Example: /friend Bishop
• /ping    Checks my lag or a member's lag. When in a game, it checks both players' lag. Example: /ping or /ping Bishop
• /rematch    Offers a rematch.
• /close    Closes game tab/window if possible.
• /resign    Resigns current game.
• /draw /d    Offers a draw / accepts a draw.
• /abort    Aborts current game.
• /q    Need queen
• /r    Need rook
• /b    Need bishop
• /n    Need knight
• /p    Need pawn
• /-q    No queen
• /-r    No rook
• /-b    No bishop
• /-n    No knight
• /dm    Diagonals mate
• /am    Anything mates
• /nd    No diagonals
• /qm    Queen mates
• /rm    Rook mates
• /nm    Knight mates
• /ak    I'm attacking
• /dk    I'm defending
• /tp    Trade pieces
• /nt    No trades
• /st    Stall
• /ns    Don't stall, we are low on time

List of Analysis Board commands:

• /close    Closes game tab/window if possible.
• /invite    Invites a member to your Analysis Board. Example: /invite Bishop
• /mute    Mutes a member
• /unmute    Unmutes a member
• /student    Makes the member a student
• /owner    Passes ownership to a student.
• /viewer    Makes the member a viewer.

Urls to create challenges:

•  /live#time=10m0s0i
•  /live#time=10m0s0i&game=&rated=&minrating=&maxrating=&color=&member=
  • Note: the options for game type are chess, chess960, threecheck, kingofthehill, crazyhouse and bughouse.

Keyboard/mouse shortcuts:

• Press X to flip board.
• Press Z to go into focus mode.
• Press Arrow Right to go to next move on board.
• Press Arrow Left to go to the previous move on board.
• Press Arrow Up to go to the first move on board.
• Press Arrow Down to go to the last move on the board.
• Press ctrl/shift + Right Click on a square to highlight green.
• Press alt + Right Click on a square to highlight blue.
• Right Click on a square to highlight red.
• Hold Right Click from one square to another to draw arrow on board.
• Hold alt key to temporarily disable auto-queen.

Good to know.

I played on here for years without knowing this stuff, but it's useful.

Yeah some is useful. But it'll probably take me a month to remember ALL these commands...

coolio!

Hell yeah brother

How come this is not on the top, woooow

asdafs

noooo live hcess

How do you open the console box?

let me know if you find it how i opened once by mistake now i dont know how i did it

You click the Console icon. I believe most of the commands work in live chat too

Сняли деньги за подписку которую случайно подписался .Вернут ли назад деньги?

I found it! You press the ` button to open it (located above the tab button)

but it only works after i press the play thing