How much is the internet data usage of a chess game?

@Oportunist said in #8:

Well i used a whole lot of spotify though,being in holiday i was listening to music whole day,so if you play only chess,i think 10 gigabyte a month will cover
lol that's saying like get 50 gigs to play chess.... cause you're constantly watching netflix the same time.

Totally different mediums. Lichess is almost entirely controlled by text strings which just move around pre-loaded visual assets. It's not like you download the picture of the board every time lol. You could control such a game with very very little data.

You could just temporarily increase your data to unlimited for a few months. I have unlimited across the board and it's not that expensive.

I always try to use only my "fair share" of data. Why should I use more bits than others? I'm SO inspired by recent political hoopla. Famous, rich celebrities have inspired me to be more selfless!

Please forgive my use of these extra pixels. Old habits are hard to break. But I'll keep trying. For the planet!

x+y=10 gigabytes for a month of chess,let me prove this,x = queen blunders,y=book opening theory.you have abaut 30 days in a month so 20-10 gigabyte is 10 gigabytes for a month.

@MercuryTrismegistus said in #14:

@Oportunist

Watch this and then have a little think about how many bytes you need to make a chess move.

A move is just saying "The piece on x square moves to piece on y square" There are only 64 squares. 2^6 is 64 so you only need 6 bits to say which piece and 6 more to say where it goes. You might need a bit for resigning. You might want some bits for a clock.

Compare this to an image. You want 8 bits for each colour and 8 more for alpha. This is for every pixel. So a raw image with 1024*1024 pixels would have 1048576 bits.

Yes in terms of raw data it's just some kilobytes in a chess game. I would like to know how much the process to ping data every second to a server to find out if my opponent moved the pieces or not would consume. This use of data must be low, but I believe the longer the game, more data is used.

A chess game data is extremelly low, just some inputs of positions. Whole chess databases have just few terabytes.

I am not sure how much a game would spend in an app. For sure lichess consume less than chess.com with all the extra info that chess.com app perform in background.

But reading more about it I believe my 14GB month data plan will be enough for 1hour of chess a day + my use with google maps, browsing and maybe a little of spotify music a day. I have no intention to boost my plan for the 3 months I'll be untethered from wifi.

Lichess really needs to institute carrier-pigeon play. For the planet.

It will generally use anything from 5 mbits to 25 mbits. I'm in the same situation, so I also have to count how much internet I spend

Why @lichess not commenting?

I guess it depends a bit on how you use lichess... app or browser, how you browse the site, do you read blogs with images, do you load big engines, etc.

But usually, chess doesn't take much bandwidth (the playing alone).

That estimate above of several GB just to play some games is way off.

You probably could use your computer / browser to measure how much data is actually transferred in your realistic scenario.