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

Even Nostradamus could predict the lock that is coming.

I have never called you a Runner.

I called you a Jelly Fish.

Runners and Track stars actually do have spines otherwise they would not be able to walk or run.

Jelly Fish have no spines at all. They move only by using ocean currents.

It wasn't an insult.

It was speaking the truth.

You have already admitted it.

Okay, obviously you didn't understand what I was saying :PP so nvm.

It doesn't matter really. Running down the clock is a VALID style of playing. Not accepting a rematch is a perfectly VALID option. That's why rematch is called "rematch" and not "force rematch".

Whether you decline a rematch or not is entirely up to you. I personally do not like to play the same person over and over again and even twice in a row is pushing it so I frequently decline rematches.

+1

Only accept a rematch if you found the previous game nice, otherwise, just leave it.

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Nothing that you have written here at chess.com has even a slight resemblance to an essay. Your posts are long, relative to online norms, but essays are another matter. Even the so-called "five paragraph essay"* taught in some English 101 courses has more logical development and stronger paragraphs than any of your posts. 

Perhaps the lack of polish is the most important difference. Your posts read as though you strung together a sequence of brief assertions as they occurred to you. Contrast that with this provisonal definition of an essay:

We might tentatively define the essay as a short work of nonfiction, often artfully disordered and highly polished, in which an authorial voice invites an implied reader to accept as authentic a certain textual mode of experience.

http://grammar.about.com/od/qaaboutrhetoric/f/faqwhatisessay.htm

I didn't understand you because what you are saying makes no sense.

People consider the Term "Runner" individuals who run away from any further matches.

You are trying to link running down a clock to being called a Runner?

What is even more insane is you are considering running down the clock a VALID style of playing?

If you are intentionally running down the clock in lost positions for no other reason but spite you are not playing your being vindictive.

In which case I would not even classify you as a Jelly Fish anymore because they are to good for you.

Yes I forgot about you.

I spend a few hours posting a forum.

You spend less than a few mins fixating over a single word choice.

Than you proceed to agrue your position based on technicalities.

The word "Essay" is meaningless. It does not take away from the over all point which I was trying to make. I could of used another word such as Long "Post".

The individual I was talking about struggles with large bodies of text.

I picked the word Essay on the fly not thinking someone would agrue the finer literal implications.

Oh how I was wrong! Good for you Ziryab for spotting these atrocities.

I shall change the word essays to the word texts.

What a remarkable change.

It's not a single word. You were assaulting another poster based on your perception of his lack of education. You made this point with gross generalizations concerning education in different nations.

I have trouble reading your posts due to YOUR lack of education. Sometimes I endure the excessive verbiage, faulty logic, and tiresome repetition because at the heart of the fluff is an interesting notion. It may not be well expressed, but the notion is worth digging from the refuse.

I like the jellyfish metaphor.

I don't agree with your assessments, but nonetheless appreciate your wit. I might even steal it from you if I ever want a rematch from some coward who refuses me.

You could write an essay on the topic. It might take more than a couple of hours, though. Writing is hard work.

I do not suffer from a lack of education.

I suffer from rants lol.

I believe that is the term they use to describe it.

In my earlier years of education I use to have problems starting off essays, paragraphs, or small topics.

I couldn't begin a conversation in text. I would look at the blank piece of paper and freeze up. Which resulted in me not getting a good grade on the assignment due to no text on the paper.

The remedy they prescribed to students to fix the above problem was:

To have the students begin writing about anything. Almost like having a speaking conversation.

The logic behind the above remedy was made so the student could begin writing. Once the student began writing they would start to flow with idea's. Which would help them come up with idea's address the heading topic.

After the paper is written. They would have the student go back and start taking out the rants or irrelevant items in the article. Bascially Editting and Revising the paper.

Since those earlier days of English. I believe schools began changing the way they help students remedy the above problem. If I am not mistaken they have started coming up with things such as brain storming and organization planning.

To get the student to think about a few things to write and go from there.

In person when you are speaking you can go off in tangents or rants.

In writing it is  misleading or confusing to the reader if you go off on such rants. Which is why it is frowned upon in writing.

What you are reading is not a lack of education.

What you are reading is Draft work of unedited and unrevised text which show the rants and ravings of a mad man.

Frankly, I am surpised you are not excited about this.

You are reading the Uncut and Unedited verisons. The text being shown are fresh off the press.

The Draft Work of a Lunatic.

Doesn't that sound like an amazing Movie title.

Something to really sink your teeth into.

Yeah the above explaination should clear up the problem.

I've known this for a long time. Sorry that I hadn't deduced that you are purposely concealing your advanced degrees.

be glad there is no rematch requirement.

I think the best thing about live chess is that you can always find someone to play against.

if you came up with too many rules many would stay away because they didn't have the time for more than one game.

This is actually getting more entertaining...

Also...i live close to a nuclear power plant, does that mean im a nuclear physicist?

I accept your apology.

It is a very noble trait to have when you are big enough to admit your faults.

What you did not deduce is this is a chess forum.

In which case spending the extra hours and effort into editing or revising a post which took several hours to make is unnecessary.

Some could even agrue making a post which takes a few hours to make is unnecessary.

Half of the people who travel to forums will never get to read my post.

The usually reasons being the forum which the post is on may end up locked, deleted, and/or burryed under an avalanche of newer forums with similar titles.

A Quarter of the people who travel to forums will dismiss my post and not read it because of its length.

The Last Quarter will read my post. However, the impact in which my post would leave would be of little importance. Simply because it is a view point. Which has no impact on a chess game. (This forum is simply talking about the events after a game. Which will always be subjective.)

You have already claimed on other occasions to be a teacher.

What is the first lesson they say when writing?

The lesson is to know your audience.

If you have no audience the only person you need to connect to/impress is yourself.

Yeah I was happy with the post. It wouldn't be an academically acceptable post; however, this is not an academic forum.

I would rather be a Weasel than a Jelly Fish.

Nothing like a goold ole academic showdown...

Love the colours!

I'm curious about the stats. Were these published in a social media journal?