Is Chess.com Down?

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Chess.com is UP

Chess.com is reachable from our servers. It responded with HTTP 200 in 260ms. If you cannot access it, the issue is likely on your end — try clearing your cache, flushing DNS, or switching networks.

Response: 260ms

Status: HTTP 200

Checked: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:00:18 GMT

From: Cloudflare Edge

Site: chess.com ↗

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About Chess.com outages

Chess.com (chess.com) is a gaming service. Chess.com is a gaming service.

Common causes of Chess.com outages include server overload, DNS failures, DDoS attacks, software deployments, CDN issues, and infrastructure failures. Most outages resolve within minutes to a few hours.

If Chess.com is down for everyone: Check their official status page and social media for updates.

If Chess.com is up but not working for you: Try clearing your browser cache, disabling your VPN, flushing DNS, or switching networks.