windows 8 tablet

Anyone able to help. I have a windows 8 tablet. The site loads up ok and I acn play up until I want to capture a piece - then it does not accept the move. Any ideas gratefully received. thanks

Are you using IE 10?  Are you able to try using a mouse to see if that changes your experience at all?

Thanks for your reply. I have used the desktop view and the google chrome routes and neither have worked. I can't plug in a mouse. It's just not accepting moves that involve captures - all the other moves work. Weird problem!

I don't know if it really works or not but I think he means connecting the mouse and the tab through bluetooth. 

Thanks strageic play - I am afraid bluetooth is a bit beyond me. I will continue to fiddle around and see what crops up.

I've had Windows 8 RT and yes, a mouse will work, but touch with finger won't allow to capture pieces. Weird indeed. I got an Ipad mini but will sale it when the 8 inch windows tab is out.

Unfortunately we don't currently support the touch screen functions of Windows 8.  You should however be able to play without issue when using a mouse.

looking forward to touch screen function on this or windows 8 app, as well as premove for ipad....very important in bullet.

Yes, I second that no premove on iphone or ipad = no blitz

hello

any update on that issue? can't capture on win8 using touch. works fine with mouse.

thanks

help?

I will give you Last Rites. Windows 8?!? Windows Anything should be seen as the equivalent of a Skull and Crossbones. I use Linux for 99.999%  of everything I do, and then use Windows 2000 Professional as a Virtual Machine under Linux on the rare occassions I can't run whatever under Linux, and it can ONLY be  run under Windows (sadly there are some things -- still -- which run ONLY under Windows). While this maybe hoping for too much is there anyway to nuke Windows 8  and install Windows 7?!? I know a lot of Windows users and NONE --  repeat NONE --  of them will touch Windows 8. I will not repeat exactly what their opinions about Windows 8  are as they would be considered "unprintable", and they are long time Windows users.

If your tablet is an Android device, and can hold a micro SD card, you might be able to dual-boot it and by-pass the native OS, and run an Android OS which is based on Linux. Somehow I suspect  you bought into the M$ hype and bought one of their Surface tablets -- or whatever they are called -- in which case you are pretty much screwed. M$ is  losing money on  their Surface  -- or whatever they are  called -- tablets because no one is buying them. No one  wants to buy anything that has a M$ logo on it, simply  because you become a paying beta tester for M$, and people are wising up. In the future if you must  buy  a name brand, buy Apple since at  the very minimum it has been  tested and 99.9% of all possible bugs worked out, and runs like it is suppose to; you can't say the  saame thing about M$ products. If M$ *gave* me one I might experiment with it, and if it is as bad as I  have heard, I could always use it as A) giant coaster  B) Frisbe  C) Hot Plate protector.   

Unfortunately right now the site still isn't compatible with Windows 8 touch screen mode. You'll still need to use a mouse to capture pieces. 

Hi - thanks for your reply, will use the mouse then :-/

any plans for a windows phone version of the mobile app? or even a windows 8 app ?

Thanks again for this great site.

just bumping this to show interest, the new windows 8.1 tablets are awesome, please make a windows app!!!!

I do believe we have started working on it :)

cheers, thanks!!

I just purchased a Dell Venue, i love the thing, but if  i can't play chess.com on it, i'm returning it for the nexus 7, LOL. Any estimated release date, even if unpromised and a wild guess? I'm sure there are alot of users highly interested in an app since the web function will not work on touch screen tablets using windows 8. or 8.1

While you wait, you can download a program called "bluestacks" (free) that will allow you to run android apps on your windows machine. Can't wait for the W8 app though!

PS - Bobcat, you are wrong. Recommending linux to a user that can barely handle Windows is laughable.