gg

To my understanding gg is said after the game as a congratulation to the winner, not a comment on the game itself. I've just started playing bullet tournements, after I resign or am mated i say gg.  Many responses are "OK' or " no it wasn't". Am I mistaken on the meaning of gg?

Your error may be in expecting people to be reasonable

uh oh.

I've always taken gg as a primarily a compliment to the winner.  But sometimes a winner may use it to compliment the opponent's good play in a losing cause or that the game itself was of high quality (which I guess amounts to the same thing). . . An attempt maybe to soften the blow. 

I usually say it as a way of saying I enjoyed to game win/loss, thanks for playing... but I can see if you get a nice scholars mate in maybe gg isn't the best thing to say ^^

It's short for "good game" which has no objective definition.  I consider it in poor taste for the winner to say gg first, but various people have various stances.

That was funny, Estragon

I can"t count the games I lost because of those two! 

So you're in favor of empty gestures.  No thanks.

The first time someone said "gg" to me, I asked what it meant, and after the answer, since I had lost that game, I replied with "it was good for you!", which is meant as even more unpolite than it may sound: I thought the winner was making a joke out of it.

Now I know it is either some kind of etiquette or the sincere expression of satisfaction for the game, like a shortened "you lost, but you played well, and I'd like to play you again since I think we are at a similar skill level", or "I lost, but I enjoyed the level of struggle, so I'd like to play you again since I think we are at a similar skill level".

But I understand many other players might not get the intended meaning of a "gg" at the end of a game, especially if they lost, and I don't think bad of those who might react unpolitely (within a reasonable limit...).

Oh dear, not this again!

Hmmm. Gonna have to look up the Kosintseva sisters........... Ill be back..........

I usualy write that the game was crap.

gg is a show of sportsmanship or a way to shake hands online.  Typically the loser says it first, but there is no good reason to be offended if the winner says it.  I am sure you could come up with a negative way to take it, but why would you want to do that?

well idk i said gg after making an awesome combination that i was extremely lucky to find but my opponet just disabled chat and ran his clock out 

the question is who is being abusive?

Not really. Amongst friends, what could be considered an insult by some that hear the remarks may be a term of endearment.

Online passages are remarkably different than the context when in person.

gg is not an insult only if it is said in sarcastic tone...

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How did you get from that to that?  I'm not in favor of empty gestures at the chessboard or other forms of sport, anyway.  My point was, if everyone is forced to go through the motions, actions mean absolutely nothing.  I actually mean it if I say "gg"/"good game" to someone.

I definitely don't "just walk around silently and sullenly" .. Nice blatant innuendo there though.  As you're willing to speculate on my personal life I will do likewise: you're a horse's ass.

ggmm - "Good Golly Miss Molly!"

I'd been wondering for a while what the "gg" meant - until chancing upon this thread. In my imagination I'd supposed it was a kind of crooked smile, rather like :) ;) and so on. But I see it is simpler than that and those "g"s actually stand for something. I think a good reply might be "hh" - haha! Especially if you both played awfully or if you think your opponent is trying to wind you up.