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Is Chess.com down right now?

Checked 1 minutes ago

No — Chess.com is working normally
League of Legends, Valorant, GeForce NOW, Cloudflare are all reporting problems at the same time. Cloudflare sits underneath a lot of gaming services, so this is likely one upstream problem rather than several separate ones.
If you are having trouble anyway, the problem is more likely to be between you and Chess.com than at Chess.com itself. Two things worth checking, in order: your connection under load — a line that idles at 20 ms can jump to 300 ms while something uploads, which drops you from sessions and looks exactly like a server fault — and whether the people you play with see the same thing, since a service can be healthy in your region and unwell in theirs. Run a connection check.

The last 48 hours

2 separate problems in the last 48 hours, most recently 8 hours ago.

Longer record

92.57%Uptime, 72 hours
2Problems seen
3h 45mLongest
8 hoursLast problem
Daily uptime, last 3 days

This longer record is here so the 48-hour picture above can mean something — without it we could tell you a problem happened, but not whether that is normal for Chess.com.

The longest outage we have on record ran 3h 45m. We have only been recording Chess.com for 3 days, so treat these figures as provisional.

Outage history

StartedLastedSeverityWhat happened
2026-08-01 20:30 UTC 1h 35m having problems We measured HTTP 200 in 3085 ms from the edge
2026-08-01 16:40 UTC 3h 45m having problems We measured HTTP 200 in 3304 ms from the edge

What Chess.com actually publishes

Chess.com publishes no public status feed, so this entry is our own reachability probe from Cloudflare's edge rather than the vendor's view.

Matching the symptom to the cause

Games disconnecting mid-move or clock desyncing
Real-time play depends on a live connection, which reachability checks don't test. A site that answers a page request can still be failing at live games.

Where this reading can mislead you

A green light here means we could reach chess.com, nothing more. For a turn-based site that's a reasonable proxy; for live blitz it isn't.

When the status page says green and you still can't play

Status pages report the vendor's view of their own service, and they lag real outages — often by many minutes, sometimes by hours, because a human usually has to confirm before anything is posted. They also can't see the two things most likely to be wrong at your end.

The first is your own connection under load. A line that idles at 20 ms can jump to 300 ms the moment something starts uploading, which drops you from sessions and looks exactly like a server fault. Your plan speed says nothing about this; it's called bufferbloat and almost nobody measures it.

The second is where everyone else in your group is. A service can be healthy in your region and unwell in theirs, and if one person is hosting, their problem is everyone's problem.

Playing with people elsewhere

Chess.com being fine where you are does not mean it is fine for everyone in your group. The live dashboard resolves status against each person's own region, and will tell you which of your friends is in an affected area — plus who has the connection to host, which is usually a different question from who has the fastest plan.