This is not the old "etiquette" question that appears a lot here (https://www.chess.com/forum/search?keyword=rematch)
My question is: what is the actual difference within the app between a Rematch and New Game that's presented to the player immediately after checkmate occurs?
In British English, the word rematch can imply that the preceding "match was a draw or ... there was a dispute about some aspect of it" (collinsdictionary.) In American English (merriam-webster) it seems that no such implication is intended. Being British, I have picked up on the potential British interpretation and have avoided pressing the Rematch button!
Is it simply about the options that are available when one presses the button: it is that for the following game, with a Rematch one's color is reversed and the game's options are duplicated but, with a New Game, one is given the option to pick one's color and change the type of play?
New game would be against a different player and would have a random color assignment.
Rematch would propose a game to the same player you just played. The sides would be switched. There is no intimation that there was anything wrong with the preceding match.
This is not the old "etiquette" question that appears a lot here (https://www.chess.com/forum/search?keyword=rematch)
My question is: what is the actual difference within the app between a Rematch and New Game that's presented to the player immediately after checkmate occurs?
In British English, the word rematch can imply that the preceding "match was a draw or ... there was a dispute about some aspect of it" (collinsdictionary.) In American English (merriam-webster) it seems that no such implication is intended. Being British, I have picked up on the potential British interpretation and have avoided pressing the Rematch button!
Is it simply about the options that are available when one presses the button: it is that for the following game, with a Rematch one's color is reversed and the game's options are duplicated but, with a New Game, one is given the option to pick one's color and change the type of play?