General thoughts really, when do you ask for a rematch, when do you accept a rematch,any personal rules regarding rematching?

I rarely ask for a rematch, but usually accept them. I dunno why.

if i liked playing the person i will ask or accpet a rematch.  seems simple enough.  i have only not accepted a rematch once or twice.

I accept rematches if the person playing is of similar rating to me and that the person doesn't do anything such as run the clock down after losing. Often if I accept a rematch it would go on for like 5-6 games. 

I will rematch for a long time but I always try to make sure that if I start with white that my opponent has the last game with white.

The worst is when someone plays 1 game with white, wins and leaves.

2 games with white and 1 black is rude too.  It happens a lot. That is why I have a gigantic list of  blocked players.

If I were playing regular length games it might be different but I almost exclusively play bullet.

 Cool!

SZ.

 Very nice; & true; couldm't have said it better myself !

SZ.

 These r the type of players I like 2 play.  This is how u become a better chess player.

SZ.

I somtimes re-play against polite, interesting players if i'm playing a few games in a row.  Some guy typed :

'lucky'

in to chat as he was loosing a game, then complained I wouldn't replay him.  Tricky to explain to him that I don't generally spent me time playing against nobs.

i only ask for a rematch if i lose, and only accept a rematch if they lose. wish more highly rated players would play me more though on blitz. need the knoledge as have noone to play with in real life

If I play someone much higher rated than me, I don't think it is the least bit rude if they decline a rematch.  I feel they extended a courtesy by agreeing to play me in the first place.  I genrally won't request a rematch, unless I felt I was competive and gave them an interesting game.

I wish (I'm a wishi person eh?) that there were no expectations on this subject. A game is a game, win or lose, and a rematch shouldn't be expected. I suppose with short blitz and bullet games it's different, but with longer blitz/long form games I get tired and need a break. So I rarely accept and never request. No offense in tended. But from all your comments it seems like I must be pissing many people off. I feel bad about it, but I'm still too tired to play again. So, my answer is no - almost never.

I rarely offer rematches and rarely accept them. It starts feeling a bit personal on the rematch and I like playing on the Internet to be as impersonal as possible.

Don't you love the whiners that lose at bullet and complain that you only beat them on time?  That's the object of the game; play fast enough to win.

Ah! The regular pseudo anti-narcissist!

I don't like the term "whiners" but I was wondering the same thing. I thought that time was sort of the extra piece on the board in such games. It's very much a weapon, or so I thought, and perfectly legitimate to use.

Winning on time in a regular game is legitimate as well. Its... why they have clocks.

Well, it's how they make the clocks mean something and ensure that the players abide them, anyway.

Ah, so its really about fulfilling the clocks' raison d'etre, lest they unwind into oblivion.

Time keeps on slipping...