Chess.com desktop client?

No. The site doesn't have or support a desktop client.

who cares,just play chess,it won't raise your low rating.

Anyone know what happened to the rss feed?

eg. http://www.chess.com/rss/echess/derek that used to work but it doesn't now.

+1 for the desktop client

With this new interface, I'm quite happy. It's convenient for playing when you are away from your own computer. Still, desktop clients are almost always faster, for any type application: mail, chess, newsfeeds, you name it.

+1 for desktop client. 3D board with beautiful graphics from Unreal Engine 4. 1000000 themes, different pieces etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv7Omjrrtfg&t=1023s looks amazing

Id love a desktop client for streaming.

I am also interested in the Desktop Client - for example ... I am also paid member of Arena FIDE online ... they have Desktop Client which has to be downloaded from their Website ( Windows separate & Mac separate ) - Chess.com is much much better than Arena FIDE online ... there is no comparison 

But what i am trying to say is - Chess.com can also have a similar concept implemented - Download Desktop client 

A desktop client, optimized and fast, without JavaScript bugs, would be awesome!

If they could port their Windows Phone app to UWP it should be able to run on Windows 10 (or xbox) desktop as well. And yes I know there are many other desktops then Windows 10, but it would be nice to see the active games on a live tile in my start menu

true. However a mac version would also be appreciated

The clients want a client ! 

+1

+1

This member would like chess.com to document some browser configurations that they test with.

Particularly, I would like documentation of extensions/plugins that are known to be incompatible.

I understand that many people only use one browser. I use three:

1. Firefox, which I used to use solely and still use for most of my day-to-day browsing

2. Chrome, which is my "chess" browser and the first one I got to work with V3, not without struggle and no help at all from chess.com support (granted, "The problem must be at  your end" was correct, but they didn't extend from that to say, "If you have newly installed the browser, check that it didn't pick up any extensions from a previous installation or equivalents in your default browser." In sheer frustration (V3 was unusable at the time, and I swapped between two browsers and V2 and V3 in each to get everything I needed to do done) I closed a premium account. And yeah, I'm back. I missed the social activity and my online friends. But browser support is a continuing weakness for chess.com

3. Safari I use when I simply have to have a wide-open Javascript-enabled block-nothing browser ... and I try to use it as little as possible and reset it by clearing cache, history, cookies, you-name-it practically every time I shut it down.

I suggest to chess.com that the browsers they must support on desktops are:

1. IE/Edge as the default browser for MS Windows

2. Safari as the default browser for OS X/MacOS

3. Firefox as the most venerable of the "alternate" browsers

4. Chrome, as it has substantial "market" share (if you can have "market" share for something free)

In particular, if someone has a regular browser that they use but are having trouble with chess.com, one of the browsers supplied other than by the OS vendors is a reasonable choice to make, if a few "known good" configurations are carefully documented.

The two obvious canidates for "Get it working with a configuration we support, then if you wish you can work out over time how to make your regular browser work" are Chrome and Firefox. They run on Windows, OS X/MacOS and Linux. At one time I used all three operating systems daily and used Firefox as it was (back then) possibly the only browser that supported all three.

I am cognizant that Opera is still alive and has its fans; Bravo may be an option in the future, but for now, the mainstream four (five) are very definitely IE/Edge, Safari, Firefox and Chrome.

I'm ignoring mobile devices as my "smart" phone is not capable enough to access chess.com via any browser I've tried yet, but I haven't tried seriously. The app ... I'm not interested. There is too much of the site that is wholly unavailable via the version of the Android app I have, which is the latest I can get. Whether or not there are newer versions for later devices and newer versions of Android I don't know.

Best to all,

Giles

My default mobile browser on my phone (Samsung Galaxy 6) works pretty well on the mobile version of the website, with the exception of Live (and it used to work really well there, at least for viewing games and chat). I have used Chrome successfully as well but haven't tested more recently.

The site also suggests primarily Chrome and then Firefox. There are so many possible combinations of plugins and add-ons that can impact things, that it is very unlikely they will come up with a set of good plugins/add-ons. Though, if you have any blockers of any kind, that can certainly cause problems if the appropriate things are not white-listed.

I think Edge and Safari have both had issues in the past but don't know if that has gotten better or not.

Hi Martin,

Yes, the recommendation or known good configurations might be entirely sans extensions. Which would not be ideal, but would be better than the nothing we have now, especially if as well as "this configuration works" there was a list of extensions headed "Members have reported the following extensions to be incompatible".

I would also – but this is a lost cause – like chess.com to serve everything they use from under .chess.com. Javascript, ads, the whole shebang. Why should I have to trust domain names I've never heard of to load who-knows-what to access chess.com? Because they've paid to use those services (basic commercial decision) but the supplier and/or chess.com have not taken the next step to say "and we'll deliver all that content from hosts under our own domain name, thanks, and we'll test with new versions before you upgrade those hosts."

Edge and Safari have both had issues that I've heard of, but for good or ill they are the default browsers which ship with the two main notebook/desktop computing platforms, Windows and OS X/MacOS (same deal, Apple marketing is renaming the operating system). (Well, and the latest version – or perhaps the last two – have a new file system and I've done OS support. I'll wait. Thanks.  What I have works for my simple purposes; let the early adopters work a few of the inevitable bugs out before I migrate.)

I know the site uses at least one Content Delivery Network (CDN) to help speed up delivery of most content to users in different locales. Some of the other domains are part of that. Some are owned by the site but used to host the scripts (the javascript files and maybe many of the images load from other servers/URLs).

While I have some background in coding, I don't have anywhere near the skill level or knowledge to know for sure which way works best for hosting a highly available site, with millions of members (with 60+ thousand on at a time) all over the world, while trying to minimize load times and maximize uptime.

For ads, do many major-tier ad companies even allow local hosting? Self hosting ads probably is super rare anymore also, unless ad sales are part of your business and you have staff dedicated to selling ad space, vetting ads and handling all billing.

That said, at the very least, the site could publish a set of URLs that absolutely must be allowed for the site to run correctly.

I know when I get an new machine, the default browser is just used to load Firefox and there are very few extensions I ever load (and normally that is just for testing purposes). If all browsers supported standards more fully, then there likely would be less of an issue with most things.

I'm dubious that chess.com would want (even if their commercial partners permitted) to serve ads etc themselves.

But there is no technical reason that those ads (and Javascript, and ...) could not be named under chess.com. There then would be the question of how much chess.com knows about what ads are served and when the Javascript changes, but at least for those who do want to run ad blockers, script blockers and the like could decide to trust chess.com and everything under it and have a reasonable chance of everything "just working".

Whether that would be any more secure than the current arrangement is of course dubious, but it would be substantially easier to document and places the responsibility for identifying all the resources required to use any part of chess.com with ... chess.com, and not their customers.

I'm a voice in the wilderness on this issue I know from observation of how many, many sites work. "It's the way it is." "It shouldn't be" "What an idiot."

Yup, sometimes I'm an idiot, and a stopped clock is right twice a day. If it's a twelve hour clock.

I would be more than happy to buy chess.com premium if a desktop client were available. No matter what type of hardware / browser / connection I have, I always run into issues in the browser version with board freezes and slowness. It would be amazing if I were able to play on chess.com using something like Blitzin.