Cowardliness ?? Honor ?? Some do not realize you are playing a game and not some Klingon on the field of battle fighting to the death.......just move on
This site has a bunch of members that don't rematch.

This site has a bunch of cowards that don't have the guts to rematch people. This site should have a mandatory one-game rematch. Then you'd see a lot of these cowards leave this site. Especially in blitz chess. They win by one second and are too scared to rematch. Pathetic.

These people (if we can call them that???) who refuse rematches/runners are just the most cowardly folk around. And it's even worse. They leave the room and so you follow them on the site and see they're still logged in and playing someone else!!! So, they wanted to play just not with you? Just not play a rematch in case they lose? So now you're interested in the gutless wimp and getting their IP is a cinch. So this coward is still on the site and still playing and you've got his/her IP and you run it through the cruncher and you find out what city they're in and often it'll also bring up an email addy or some comment they've left in some forum. You follow the trail and learn about their family and where they went on holiday and how drunk they got at their grandmother's funeral. Now they've mentioned 'a brother' and sure enough the coward's brother is only replying to him on the thread and talking about facebook. So, you've got the coward's facebook now and you slip in a friend request. Over the next days you befriend this 'running coward' and you get his address and feed him some crap so as he'll meet up. Meet up? Damn right! And not empty handed either. You turn up with a board and pieces and you're gonna make this P.O.S rematch you whether he likes it or not. And, if it's the freak in the thread who said he plays while "on the toilet"... No problem. Take the game in their if you like. We'll both drop 'em around the ankles and play like that. And if this cowardly little wretch thinks he'll be able to cheat OTB like he did online, well, hell no... You'll be watching him like a hawk and you'll also make it clear that it'll get VERY MESSY if he tries that nonsense here. So, you're in this creeps house, in the toilet, playing your rematch and this idiot blunders within the first 5 moves and you literally check mate him senseless. And as you make the final move you lean across growling and he thinks it over and you just start biting his face ... Like real vicious animal bites. yeah, you take the 'runners' nose off and half his ear and you leave him like that with his pants around his ankles, bloodied and soiled. Now that's how to deal with 'runners'. Case closed. New Game!!!

This site has a bunch of cowards that don't have the guts to rematch people. This site should have a mandatory one-game rematch. Then you'd see a lot of these cowards leave this site. Especially in blitz chess. They win by one second and are too scared to rematch. Pathetic.
I support jc816 here,,, the loser in a blitz game should be able to enforce a one game rematch, provided they only played one game previously together
Personally think only if you lose with black then you should able to enforce a rematch. If you lose with white and the person doesnt want a rematch even tho white has the advantage, then hes basically an idiot.

Forced rematches will not happen. Some people only have time for one game, and there's nothing wrong with that. Others prefer to play a bunch of different opponents instead of a longer match against one particular opponent, and there's nothing wrong with that.
You have no right to demand a rematch, even if you lose. If both players want a rematch, that's great, but there is no moral obligation to grant it.

Maybe there should be a button/option that says "automatic rematch" that both players would have to click on before the game starts. If you click on it and your opponent does not, then abort the game before the first move is played.
This site has a bunch of cowards that don't have the guts to rematch people. This site should have a mandatory one-game rematch. Then you'd see a lot of these cowards leave this site. Especially in blitz chess. They win by one second and are too scared to rematch. Pathetic.
I support jc816 here,,, the loser in a blitz game should be able to enforce a one game rematch, provided they only played one game previously together
Personally think only if you lose with black then you should able to enforce a rematch. If you lose with white and the person doesnt want a rematch even tho white has the advantage, then hes basically an idiot.
There is just a tiny minority of players who insist on rematches. That's why there is no chess website that enforces them.
There are no rematches in competitive chess - why should casual internet chess be any different? Rematch is just a convenient way to play again when both players want it.

Yeees yeees! And there are many waaays to breath out.
One is the mouth. The second, the nose. And the third is ________ ?
Yeees! Right you are. Right. You. Are!

But the thing is...
Chess.com is a capitalist chess site.
You are not required to do rematches on this site unlike you must be used to on sovietchess.rus
If Chess.com was Communist perhaps things would be different.
This site has a bunch of cowards that don't have the guts to rematch people. This site should have a mandatory one-game rematch. Then you'd see a lot of these cowards leave this site. Especially in blitz chess. They win by one second and are too scared to rematch. Pathetic.
I support jc816 here,,, the loser in a blitz game should be able to enforce a one game rematch, provided they only played one game previously together

These people (if we can call them that???) who refuse rematches/runners are just the most cowardly folk around. And it's even worse. They leave the room and so you follow them on the site and see they're still logged in and playing someone else!!! So, they wanted to play just not with you? Just not play a rematch in case they lose? So now you're interested in the gutless wimp and getting their IP is a cinch. So this coward is still on the site and still playing and you've got his/her IP and you run it through the cruncher and you find out what city they're in and often it'll also bring up an email addy or some comment they've left in some forum. You follow the trail and learn about their family and where they went on holiday and how drunk they got at their grandmother's funeral. Now they've mentioned 'a brother' and sure enough the coward's brother is only replying to him on the thread and talking about facebook. So, you've got the coward's facebook now and you slip in a friend request. Over the next days you befriend this 'running coward' and you get his address and feed him some crap so as he'll meet up. Meet up? Damn right! And not empty handed either. You turn up with a board and pieces and you're gonna make this P.O.S rematch you whether he likes it or not. And, if it's the freak in the thread who said he plays while "on the toilet"... No problem. Take the game in their if you like. We'll both drop 'em around the ankles and play like that. And if this cowardly little wretch thinks he'll be able to cheat OTB like he did online, well, hell no... You'll be watching him like a hawk and you'll also make it clear that it'll get VERY MESSY if he tries that nonsense here. So, you're in this creeps house, in the toilet, playing your rematch and this idiot blunders within the first 5 moves and you literally check mate him senseless. And as you make the final move you lean across growling and he thinks it over and you just start biting his face ... Like real vicious animal bites. yeah, you take the 'runners' nose off and half his ear and you leave him like that with his pants around his ankles, bloodied and soiled. Now that's how to deal with 'runners'. Case closed. New Game!!!
Very good!
Requires the rematch-refuser to have 2 toilets in his bathroom though, which you can't rely on.

Very good!
Requires the rematch-refuser to have 2 toilets in his bathroom though, which you can't rely on.
Not at all use his bathtub or if your in a 1/4 bath the upper deck.

What is this the sore losers forum? Stop your whining, move on and play someone else.. problem solved. It's best not to take a loss so personally, chess and emotion don't mix IMO.

Also, if you keep playing you'll eventually get paired with the same person so don't fret, you'll get your rematch sooner or later.

Forced rematches will not happen. Some people only have time for one game, and there's nothing wrong with that. Others prefer to play a bunch of different opponents instead of a longer match against one particular opponent, and there's nothing wrong with that.
You have no right to demand a rematch, even if you lose. If both players want a rematch, that's great, but there is no moral obligation to grant it. I do agree on this point, so, just keep it simple.... stop running from tournament play (constant rematches) over and over again! Or, even better, make a challenge to your opponent with opposite color pieces and do not make any moves of the present game until your opponent has accepted your challenge! Thus, 2 games to be played! That is what I learned to do whenever someone challenge me to play them and they had the white pieces!?
The concept that an opponent should want to play a second game against you instead of playing someone else is the height of arrogance. What makes you so important that they should play you again?