We are currently working on allowing people to share links to games with friends on Facebook, but Facebook has recently changed its policy so even these wall posts will only show up for friends who are also playing chess.
Facebook expressly does *not* allow us to merely alert friends when users are playing
NOTIFY FRIENDS AUTOMATICALLY WHEN PLAYING CHESS


Thanks ever for your prompt reply. Also like to mention that Chess.com is fantastic site. I'm new to this site and am still finding my way round it.
I want to change my on line name ie Andrew654321 to something else, but every time i endervour on this simple task, my settings weren't allow. Would it be possible for you to direct me in this process, Thanxs

Contact suport, and give a choice of 3 usernames you'd want in order of preference. Please note that you cannot have any spaces or dots in the name, nor any special characters like dots or ^ & * ! " £ $ % ( ) + = ? / \ |
It can be either one whole word, or use a dash or underscore as a seperator.
It must be a minimum of 3 letters, and a no more than 20 letters/characters
Please remember we have over two million members, so your username needs to be unique
When im playing chess via Facebook my face book friends arn't notified. All they can see is that i'm on the internet. I would like my facebook friends to be automatically notified When im playing online chess. Please can someone tell me how to go about this. i've tried changing my settings but to no avail, thanxs