What Chat Commands can I Use in Live Chess?

There is a large variety of chat commands you can use in live chess! To see a list of all of them, type /help in the chat window. 

List of general commands:

• /sound /sounds    Toggles sound.
• /follow    Follows a member's games / prints a list of followed members. Example: /follow Bishop or /follow
• /unfollow    Stops following a member / stops following all. Example: /unfollow Bishop or /unfollow
• /friend    Sends a friend request. Example: /friend Bishop
• /observe    Observes ongoing member's games. Example: /observe Bishop
• /ping    Checks my lag or a member's lag. When in a game, it checks both players' lag. Example: /ping or /ping Bishop
• /examine /analysis    Opens an Analysis board. If you are in a game, it opens a board to analyze together the recently finished game.
• /archive /history    Loads a member's games archive. Example: /archive Bishopor /archive
• /top    Observes top games of the type bullet, blitz, standard or friend. Example: /top friend, /top blitz
• /quit /exit    Quits Live Chess.
• /1,3,5,10    {0} Creates a seek of 0 minutes.|{1} Creates a seek of 1 minute.|]1,Inf] Creates a seek of 1,3,5,10 minutes.
• /seek    Creates a seek with specified clock settings. Example: /seek 5 0
• /play /challenge    Challenges a member with specified clock settings. Example: /play Bishop 2 12  - if you want the game to be unrated, add ‘u’ at the end. Example: /play Bishop 2 12 u
• /accept    Accepts last challenge received.
• /decline    Declines last challenge received.
• /match    Starts a game between two players. Example: /match Knight Bishop 5 0 rated
• /partner /+partner    Request bughouse partnership. Example: /partner Bishop
• /nopartner /-partner    Leave bughouse partnership. Example: /nopartner
• /tell /t    Sends a chat request. Example: /tell Bishop How was your vacation?
• /chat /c    Sends a chat request. Example: /chat Bishop
• /best /rank    Opens a tab with a histogram of the best live chess players. Example /best or /best bullet
• /finger /profile /f /fi /info /who    Shows a member's profile information. Example: /finger Bishop
• /stats /stat /statistics    Displays specified player's statistics. Example: /stats Bishop
• /messages    Takes you to the messaging board
• /password    Takes you to the change password page
• /refer    Takes you to the refer to friends page

List of Game commands:

• /friend    Sends a friend request. Example: /friend Bishop
• /ping    Checks my lag or a member's lag. When in a game, it checks both players' lag. Example: /ping or /ping Bishop
• /rematch    Offers a rematch.
• /close    Closes game tab/window if possible.
• /resign    Resigns current game.
• /draw /d    Offers a draw / accepts a draw.
• /abort    Aborts current game.
• /q    Need queen
• /r    Need rook
• /b    Need bishop
• /n    Need knight
• /p    Need pawn
• /-q    No queen
• /-r    No rook
• /-b    No bishop
• /-n    No knight
• /dm    Diagonals mate
• /am    Anything mates
• /nd    No diagonals
• /qm    Queen mates
• /rm    Rook mates
• /nm    Knight mates
• /ak    I'm attacking
• /dk    I'm defending
• /tp    Trade pieces
• /nt    No trades
• /st    Stall
• /ns    Don't stall, we are low on time

List of Analysis Board commands:

• /close    Closes game tab/window if possible.
• /invite    Invites a member to your Analysis Board. Example: /invite Bishop
• /mute    Mutes a member
• /unmute    Unmutes a member
• /student    Makes the member a student
• /owner    Passes ownership to a student.
• /viewer    Makes the member a viewer.

Urls to create challenges:

•  /live#time=10m0s0i
•  /live#time=10m0s0i&game=&rated=&minrating=&maxrating=&color=&member=
  • Note: the options for game type are chess, chess960, threecheck, kingofthehill, crazyhouse and bughouse.

Keyboard/mouse shortcuts:

• Press X to flip board.
• Press Z to go into focus mode.
• Press Arrow Right to go to next move on board.
• Press Arrow Left to go to the previous move on board.
• Press Arrow Up to go to the first move on board.
• Press Arrow Down to go to the last move on the board.
• Press ctrl/shift + Right Click on a square to highlight green.
• Press alt + Right Click on a square to highlight blue.
• Right Click on a square to highlight red.
• Hold Right Click from one square to another to draw arrow on board.
• Hold alt key to temporarily disable auto-queen.

Good to know.

I played on here for years without knowing this stuff, but it's useful.

Yeah some is useful. But it'll probably take me a month to remember ALL these commands...

coolio!