Thanks Eric and team, the site is running very quickly definitely better than before. It now takes next to no time to load pages and games, makes using the site that much more enjoyable. I can now actually spend more time reading and playing chess rather than waiting patiently for pages to slowly load. Thanks again for such a great site that continues to improve.

Tried again with yr new url...got this...

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i have no idea what it means.

nimbus

nimbus was that from entering in https://secure.chess.com/login.html

I use Internet Explorer at home, (Version: 8.0.6001.18702 ) and I am constantly unable to get chess.com pages to load.  This started happening right after the site was undated.

Live chess sure is loading a lot faster than before.

More specifically, when the "[username] won by checkmate" message box starts fading out, focus shifts away from the game chatbox to one of the Game buttons (either Rematch or Abort; it's always the bottom button). This means that your next key press on the keyboard "clicks" the selected button, triggering all sorts of undesirable behavior.

I still use the old link and it works for me.