Why is chess.com so laggy?

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CockroachDolly

Story of my Indian internet along with this useless server. I lose majority of my games due to the chess.com server randomly deciding to make me lose 0.4 seconds per premove. If I didn't have to put up with this, I would be in the top #10 on this fkn website.

SYR_Abdul

Its too laggy, unbelievable i have full signal WIFI6 like 250 mbps and still lose on time!

exevia

Chess.com suddenly became laggy recently, it's not because of my Wi-Fi or tabs, but could be extensions. Sometimes the website just freezes for like half a second, when I am playing in short time controls bulletblitz. This is annoying and makes me lose on time. Also, there are more disconnections from my opponents too, so I probably isn't my problem. I am in Singapore, if that helps.

YT_StrategyChess_c3j
andrewpalmer123 wrote:

chess.com is never slow its ur internet

No man network is superman

maxdule

The recent experience for me is a complete disaster. There were issues here and there, but the last couple of weeks are terrible. It no longer depends on which browser I use, I literally see pieces dragged with delay and sometimes it's impossible to see the fast moves of the opponent. I really hope this gets fixed as it is unusable for me in bullet games at this point.

ipponji

Same here. There were huge problems in the past, so I stopped playing Bullet. Then it was fixed. BUT: I lost 400 rating points in the last 2 days just because of this lag problem. It's Bullet and yes, my moves are played almost instantly, but it doesn't seem to work. Then I even tested 10 premoves in a row, guess what happened! They took 30 seconds. I couldn't believe my eyes. My connection was stable. As a paid user I can't accept this. There should be an explanation from chess.com

ratpacksmokes

All I play is bullet 1/0. Once my legal move is not accepted I know I am in a lag time losing game.

The only thing I can say when that happens is play faster.

festers-siesta

Maybe it's your connection. I have no lag ever.

Minus_et_Cortex

yeah it's both connection and computer.My connection is normal,but my computer is 240 hertz,so i lose something like 0.05 seconds,very efficient here.

MaestroDelAjedrez2025

Idk

safakyaprak
Martin_Stahl yazdı:
prlrvrmike wrote:

Site is basically unplayable now. I lose more games/points due to lag and/or disconnect then playing.

You might check out the following.

https://support.chess.com/en/articles/8584209-how-do-i-fix-my-disconnect-lag-issues

https://support.chess.com/en/articles/8652402-how-can-i-optimize-my-online-chess-performance

" 7-Use the best possible computer, as a powerful CPU can better handle javascript operations like dragging pieces. "

Thank you so much to the person who wrote this for this IMPRESSIVE advice.