Improvements to live chess are coming. Just be patient. Soon everything will be better.
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patience.
Live chess is a Beta.
its still work-in-progress
it should be improved... (its coming so patience)
they should have less lagg/ and no D/C..
Tournaments :D
and thats all i look for.
Jun 7, 2009
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Live chess is still in its beta stages yes, but if you read "Building Chess.com Part 14"
you'll see this is what erik has written regarding live chess;
You know how everyone thinks their own baby is so cute, but then when the kid grows up and sometimes you look back on the baby pictures and realize - that was an UGLY baby!? Well, that certainly hasn't happened to me or my 4 kids (:D), but it does happen. In fact, it even happened with Chess.com, which is, effectively, one of my children. And now that Chess.com is more grown up I can look out and say that our Chess.com child named "Live Chess" is ugly.
Let me explain more: Live Chess is actually very nice looking! It has really cool features, a great interface, and is fun......... IF it works for you. It is ugly in the sense that it doesn't work for many people. And to those of you I only have 2 words - VERY SORRY. :( We started out with such a grand vision for Live Chess, but failed to build it out in a careful manner. We pushed too hard too fast. We added features faster than we could test them. And we did it all with too few people. And so we have what we have now - a beautiful, dysfunctional live chess server. So sorry.
Here is the plan: we are now rebuilding Live Chess from the ground up and doing it right. Carefully. Patiently. Measuredly. And we have the best of the best of the best working on it - the pioneers of live web technologies like Jetty and cometd. We don't yet have a timeframe, but we do have a promise - it will be what you expect: a stable place to come and play chess and interact with friends. Getting disconnected is the most frustrating thing in the world, and it is what is really slowing the growth of Chess.com (though we are still growing really fast). We know that once we fix Live Chess... let's just say that we're excited :)
kohai thanks for the update and explanation. I think live chess is great. I came to the forum today to post a question on the status of the update if any is really coming and found your post.
I lost 70 points this morning by losing a number of games due to disconnections. That really sucks. Takes a while to build back up when win points are much smaller than points lost on lower ranked opponents.
Point is I think live chess is awesome. Playing a computer is so boring compared to playing a real person. Live chess isn't purfect but is still great none the less.
A feature that would be great is to be able to reconnect to the same game if you suffer a disconnection. Just my two cents.
I think live chess should be improved, and fast. Every second seeks are moving around. If you think Live Chess should be improved then say yes, and give a reason. If you think it is good the way it is then say no and give a reason. I would really appreciate it. Maybe a chess guy will see this and take your ideas to improve live chess! We just need your opinion for this. Thank you. Remember, every opinion counts!