Mac Safari 26.0 conflict with Chess.com

Same here, :/

Hey all, just letting you know that our staff reproduced the problem and that we're investigating potential solutions.

Splendid… I suspect it won't be hard to fix.

actually it's not trivial, otherwise it would be solved already. We're cooperating with Cloudflare on this one and we're definitely making progress.

Great to hear. Can't wait to play again!

You can still play by turning off Private Relay or by using a browser other than Safari. We've also seen some staff members able to play with Private Relay enabled when using a VPN. In any case, I'll update you once the issue is resolved, so you can go back to playing with your preferred setup.

Will this help?

Apple: "Prepare your network or web server for iCloud Private Relay": https://developer.apple.com/icloud/prepare-your-network-for-icloud-private-relay/

@MarklesSparkles thank you for sharing. It’s so encouraging to see the community rallying to support our engineering team ❤️

Yesterday our team spent hours working hand-in-hand with Cloudflare engineers investigating the problem. No breakthrough yet, so we’ll keep pushing today.

Thanks for the updates @rafal - hope it is fixed soon. Still unable to play any chess

@okleahcim- I've had success playing on Chrome or Firefox on Mac, and I suspect Windows browers would work, too. It's just a problem on Mac safari with Private Relay. Granted, there's a lot to like about Mac Safari using Private Relay, and if you're committed to that only, then you'll have to wait for a fix. Even with Private Relay on, I have been using Chrome just for Chess.com and Safari for everything else. Hope that helps.

Same here. Disabled iCloud private relay and everything is working fine, didn't need to clear cache memory. Hope there is a fix soon to be able to play WITH iCloud private relay turned on.

Update: At this point we have Chess.com, Cloudflare and Apple engineers looking into this issue.

Is it really that complex?

Everyone, Try to turn "iCloud Private Relay" off.

Apparently it is.

Any Updates?

Yes, that works BUT I very much like having Private Relay.

Yep, it's great to know that only Tim Cook and the ones he really trusts have access to your personal data.

We're still in touch with the Cloudflare team, but don't have any news yet. We're not giving up and we haven't stopped working on this issue.

When can we expect this issue to be resolved? Its been two weeks and lots of people must be affected by this.