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Recommend website for live play.

I will look at fics and instantchess. Will my games be stored forever like on this site?
@cynasure you say disconnection is likely my end but I did not have these problems with chess.com. Also while I was waiting for my opponent to move ( not knowing they had and my time was ticking down) I was able to browse other sites without problem. If my computer disconnects for a couple of seconds it will not reconnect unless I press refresh. As such I spend all my opponents time pressing refresh.
"I left chess.com because I don't have access to my games after about a month or something due to not being premium also you can only analyse one game per week."

If that's important to you ... better not try instantchess at all.
It only serves as a platform to squeeze in one or two games during your lunch break, it's geared towards casual players ... anything more than that and you're asked to get out your wallet.
Perhaps check you've got the latest updates of Chrome and Firefox, this site isn't really designed for other browsers.
Do you play over wifi?

You could play on chess.com and analyse the games with a free programm. Stockfish is a strong (strongest?) engine and free.

Download you matches once a week.
I'd say that second only to Lichess, the best site out there is FICS. The issue I have with it of course is that the interface is hell to use.

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