Mostly cowards here...

I wonder what kind of bad life decisions lead to obsessions about rematch obsessions.

And...in the playground there are children who stand around and think they’re better than, and talk down to, other children. Many of THOSE children have a Jesus complex.

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batgirl wrote: There is no rematch issue .

What about a best of 3 option?

What about just playing a game of chess? This great game has thrived since the 15th century without any rematch clause.

Indeed

You should rematch someone until one of you dies, if you believe in rematches, otherwise it's just hypocritical.

My genius solution is to create a separate rating pool for players who select in Options "Accept all rematch requests". There seems to be plenty of players to warrant such a pool. This way, they can ALL play each other to their hearts content, re-matching every game. It'll be called "The No Cowards Pool."

"One-and done"  is obviously just for cowards! But. frankly, half-measures like "2 out of 3," "5 out 9," or even "16 out of 31" aren't much better. How can you determine who the better player really is in a mere few hundred games?

Thegreatattorney, yes, two out of three is an even better option than 3 out of 5.

You could also have a selection in Options that tells players you don’t wish to rematch, and you can filter those players out. Or a chat feature where are you can on-the-fly say that you won’t be able to do a rematch (Or that you can do a rematch), although that only works for players that turn on chat.

However the issue with this is it narrows the player pool, meaning match pairings either take longer or have larger rating differences.

 

all because someone didn’t give you a rematch and you felt you needed to defend your honour and prove to yourself you can beat them? Just... wise up. 

The 'need' for a rematch implies you can actual distinguish any kind of difference between random internet handles people use.  Otherwise hitting the 'New' button and playing someone different is exactly the same, just without the boredom of facing the same player again.

Same reason I find Tata Steel way way more interesting than the World Championship match.  I have no interest in seeing the same players play (and draw, usually) with each other 12 or 14 times.  Repetition is boring.

Anyway I don’t need to chat to tell you I don’t want a rematch... I just... decline your rematch... 

The rematch issue has been posted over and over enough, over the years to warrant some kind of action.

But will the action negatively effect the rest of the community through time delays or huge rating differences? 

In the past 3 years I’ve seen a lot of these threads, your right- but I’ve seen Far more people saying there isn’t an issue then say there is.

 

also, just because perhaps 100 people have brought it up out of around... 20 million (?) over 3 years, doesn’t mean it’s a big issue.  

I’ve been blocked plenty of times for not rematching (because I was in between meetings or something) to know that the pool is already diminishing for me. Also, I’m getting tired of blocking others for doing the same to me. Just blocked several today. It’s the only way to eradicate these people who won’t even do one rematch because they’re cowards.

I think the two out of three and three out of five option is the best compromise all around. I would then unblock everyone and probably just play that all the time.

Because they couldn't have been in meetings or something and you definitely couldn't be a coward? 

A block for a block makes the whole world constipated.  Or something like that. 

And a diminishing pool reduces the chances of drowning. 

The bunny doesn't even know what he's saying anymore... But there just has to be some wisdom there. 

Coward! 

Again, the “two out of three” and/or “three out of five“ option would solve the problem.

Ha ha, Fidel, good one. But I do see their point in blocking me when I don’t rematch; as many of us have been pointing out over and over and over, it’s annoying to play people who don’t rematch. If someone rematches me at least once, I’m fine. And trust me, look through my history, I have let people bludgeon me to death with rematches. I realize that I could be knocked down to a zero rating; however, I will still be playing people, like I am now, who have the history or capability of playing 1600 all the way through 2100 level. Sometimes I do play people whose history is low, but I am confident in my approximate 1400 average rating. I sometimes go up over 1500 sometimes go down to a high 1200, but I am typically around 1400.

No, bunny, I’m not a coward, I do rematches when I can. If I can’t do one, it’s not because I’m a coward, it’s because I can’t do it. I fill well understand that I might be calling some people cowards when they’re not, because they simply can’t rematch, but then they come back at me with her explanation and everything’s fine. It would save a lot of time to have two out of three or 3 to 5. Does anyone know of a site that does that?