Still having black on next game, I'm less likely to postpone my laundry, since it's less tempting to have an other game with black than with white. And for what I know, there is nothing such as a re-match etiquette. I do understand re-match is made possible by the fact it's not a game within a tournament nor within a team play match OTB. But actually, that existed nearly not before online play. The closest thing to it, was to defy someone in the club to a 2 or 4 games rated match, when rules made it possible and club president agreed upon homologation of the games to the related federations. (FFE and FIDE for France)
What strikes me here, is that more and more people seem to take the online play for the default, normal way of playing chess, when it's actually only the shadow of the actual chess game, when two persons sit face to face, look at each other in the eyes, shake hands, and "spread blood". That still exists big time, and in spite of the fact, Internet play is all you know, it's a joke in comparision, sorry to say so, but it's true: you won't get 10% of the actual emotions you feel in a real game, out of an online game.
Okay, imagine you sit home, on a day off, in front of a computer. You have got laundry to do, but you tell yourself "first a chess game!". Then imagine that, after the game, you stare at the re- match invite while your memory bells the ring you have to do the laundry... Icare001
Icare001, if you read my post I said that I understand that there are external factors, but its funny how they don't seem to affect people after they win the first game as white. I that instance they are more than three times as likely to rematch. If external factors explained everything they would impact all rematch situations evenly - win as white, win as black, lose as white, lose as black. But they don't, so we can dismiss your idea as not explaining the data.
knighttour2, I have a little spreadsheet on my other screen and in it I have four columns representing the four rematch scenarios. I put a mark in Y in the appropriate column if they accept a rematch and N if they don't. I have been doing this for a while now and the results are clear as day. You might think this is an obsession, but to me it is a curiosity and I am just in search of an explanation. So far none has been provided that is so compelling as to dissuade me of my view.
I guess my main point is the idea of etiquette. Nowadays we hear the term Netiquette, this being a portmanteau of the words Net and Etiquette. However, while there are certainly exceptions to this, it seems to me to be more accurate to interpret Netiquette to be a portmanteau of Not and Etiquette.