Are you supposed to accept a rematch offer on live chess?

We are beginning to get to the heart of the self-justifying rationale of spineless jellyfish.

Let me sum this....the 987,190,446th post on "why" people "deserve"/are "obligated" a/to rematch.

Game is played

1 person loses

Losing person clicks rematch

Winner declines rematch

Losing side has now suffered the indiginty of being rebuffed

Losing side insults winner

Winner has already left, or fights back with insults.  This is known as nailing 1 foot to the floor and running around in a circle.

References to manhood, basements, parents show up.

Either side posts ANOTHER forum message asking if rematches are an obligation?

Forum post blows up with "Yes you are obligated"..."No youre not obligated"

Followed up quickly with many...many...many references to body parts, being a man, manning up, insults, community college psych 101 analysis.

Forum post dies...

Until recently, accepting a rematch request on the iPad caused the app to close. Now that the iPad app is v.3, it is more stable. A few weeks ago I was able to play twenty games with the same opponent using my iPad. He was using his phone.

Honestly sometimes I think an opponent is intersting and so... I wait for them to request a rematch (I almost never request it myself).

If they take more than 5-6 seconds then I'm already gonig to my next game. Some people request a rematch right as I'm starting my next game. You need to be faster, I would have accepted!

Because its the internet, and everyone can be annonymous.  

Where else but the internet can "good game" be taken as an insult?  

Amazing how in the OTB tournament games you can have hundreds of people shaking hands, wishing each other good luck, and then good game, an you dont have a single person acting like an imbecile over it.  

Its the internet, take it for what its worth.

you are only supposed to accept up to 10 rematch requests

This is a forum post which discusses other peoples views.

People on this forum have a habit of getting upset with other people with different view points.

The word coward is running away in fear.

You could agrue the people who don't want to offer a rematch because they are afraid of there opponents rematch game is that act.

It is not about size. Its about truth!

Unless people are disagreeing with the definition of the word Coward?

"The word coward is running away in fear."

There are many instances in life where running away in fear does not make you a coward.  

This is just trash talk. You can block them, but I prefer to wear idiots and fools around my neck, as a form of motivation. Once otb, a guy laughed at one of my moves, so it motivated me to beat him. He wasn't in fact a bad guy, rather popular even, but his manners were off-pitch that day. Ignore silliness, or supercharge yourself with it.

Regards

d.

if someone pays me for a rematch

i will gladly accept

I never accept a rematch request except for sometimes

It's your decision. In my case, whenever I was offered a rematch I would accept and yes, I would get the same type of responses and sometimes even notes that said something like: "Coward".

What I would do, is just ignore and continue playing with other people

so first of all let me say, this Absolutely the best post on this topic in 12 pages.

to say that this Thread is like beating a dead horse - falls short.  its nothing short of ridiculous to bring up the whole "rematch" thing yet Again and again.  and yet here we are...

X player. this is sad.  I generally Like what you write! and love the detail and thought you put into your posts.

but this isn't about logic.  you are now calling a perfect stranger a "spineless yellow belly" for declining a match with you.  I find this rude, offensive, and illogical.

as you might I am doing a big study on blitz rating.  What I have seen (I think) is interesting- and generally it reinforces the idea; that alot people drive their rating down in big losing streaks.

so see it this way, if I play you and win- and you demand a rematch- what do I really have to fear?  at worse, I will only bring my rating back to where it was.  but is entirely likely that if you blundered- that you've begun a losing streak and will lose again and again.

if anything,  the winning side should expect victories and rating improvements after the "manly egotistical" chess player rematches again and again.

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personally there might be a hundred million reasons why I won't rematch; and if you blunder maybe a few MORE reasons why I might.   but a stranger owes you nothing.   If I was a friend, I would play until both sides were satisfied.  but online, like in tournaments ratings are more accurate if there IS not rematch.

please reconsider your offensive titles for people that are playing perfectly ethical- that is why I find your posts "trolling"...

happily!   thing is my tl;dr posts use end the thread.

besides I've never argued with xplayer before

I play in OTB and always shake hands before and after a game. You can bet that if I say, "good game", after the game it was a hard fought affair that could have gone either way. Most of the time, I say, "thanks for the game", after I crush a weak player. I say, "well played", after I was crushed.

Before the game, I usually say, "good luck". I always mean it literally because there is no luck in the game. My opponent's good luck cannot hurt me.

I'm kinda an old school curmudgeon who believes that words have meanings.

Sometimes I don't not refuse to disagree over rejecting a turned down declined unaccepted uninvited unwelcome rematch request, but other times I do.

@SF64 Maybe the person who said "runner" was being pretty vain, and assumed your decision to not play was "about him".   "Runner" seems like an accuisation, that implies you were running away (from him? ) Maybe he was trying to be aggressive, hostile against YOU.   Chess is a struggle,  it's like a mock war between one person and the other.  That person,  might consider you an enemy,  something to be attacked.  Do you consider the person to be very aggressive?  Would you consider him to be stronk, confident and otherwise "Alpha male" ?    Were you on some level intimidated, running away?

i usually wait for a rematch offer. and accept it at least once.