Accepting rematches

Rematches don't have to be honoured, there is no ettiquette that suggests it.  I normall will accept a rematch but won't play after someone is winning 2 - 1.  I think the best of three is just the right amount of time to do battle.  That is playing 5 min blitz games.  I don't know how I would approach longer games.

Try not to worry about it, Chess.com takes about 5 seconds to set another game with somone else so nobody is going to be lonely for long.

Someone who rarely, if at all, uses the forums may want to get this issue of their chest immediately, rather than trawling through months and months of threads and posts. Give the OP a break

 I don't need an excuse. I just don't want to play right away with same opponent. Piece color, game result, rating don't matter. I am playing for fun and rematches don't fit my idea of fun.

We're not debating a 2nd or 3rd rematch, only one, and only when the winner started as white.  Anyone who has played in a club knows it is customary to hold a black and white pawn in closed hands to decide who gets to start what color.  The reason is that everyone wants to play white because the first move advantage.  So I say yet again, no BS excuse for not accepting a rematch after you won as white is acceptable unless chess.com allows us to separate ourselves into two groups.  Those who know chess etiquette, and all the rest of you morons.  You morons can play against each other, and we will stop posting rude comments on your profile for your cowardly running.

This is not a testimonial, so it really makes no difference what BS excuse you runners want to use to defend yourselves.  "What I do is BLA BLA BLA!"

How about all you nit-wits just coalesce around my idea instead, and put some serious pressure on Chess.com to fix it.

If you're on the stupid side of the equation, then coalesce based on how tired you are of having people post rude comments on your profile for running like a coward after one win as white.

I've checked your blitz stats - you've played 1810 games as white vs 1756 as black. What the hell are you complaining about?????

Are you a complete moron uri65?  Do you even know what this thread is about?  It is not about getting equal black and white play.  It is about getting rematches when you request it after someone beats you in ONE game.  The black/white thing is my addition, because it is especially irritating when someone beats you as white and doesn't give a rematch.

My idea is simple, and I am already tired of repeating it to every new moron to read the thread.  Scroll up and educate yourselves people!  This thread is about putting pressure on Chess.com to make a simple change, as I thoroughly explained above.

When I crush someone and they instantly ask for a rematch, I decline, knowing there is a chance that my dominance over them is causing them distress. I love that feeling. I also decline all rematch offers from India and the Middle East, as third world internet connections tend to be, well, third world. God Bless America.

 This is the point - you have a problem of being irritated. So deal with it and don't burden others - it's YOUR problem.

Instead of blaming the Black peices and demanding rematches after you've been destroyed, you would progress quicker if you just accepted you've got a lot to learn when it comes to the defensive game.  You'll become quite an angry person who's always complaing about things if you let defeat and rematch refused get you shouting at the laptop.  Sometimes people don't want to play an opponent they just beat because they feel like It's too easy and they may as well let the person win the game so he doesn't go do bed crying.

Avarvishdeepsinghkra, step outside and sniff

Says the girl who won't tell her gender or nationality

When I started this thread I wanted to know if it is custom to accept rematches and based of the hectic discussion it is obvious that only some people think it is which in turns means that there is no such custom.

However I see absolutely no reason to get mad from losing a blitz game on internet. There is basicly nothing on the line. And since there obviously is no general rule that you are obligied to give a rematch ( if it would be, a lot more people would say so right? ), there is not really any reason to judge your opponent as a pathetic runner for not playing you again.

There might be some people that thinks like 3 2 14 but most people are probably just wanting to play another opponent or simply do not want to play another game of chess. So if the problem is that people can not deal with losing an internet blitz game in the first place there is a maturity problem I think.

Coherent ... Definition ... Look it up Gal.

The default is not to have a rematch.  There needs to be a special reason to have one, not a special reason not to have one.  There is no such reason therefore I don't rematch.  The colour you played as is irrelevant.  If you played Black then you'll get white against the next opponent whom you will likely beat and then deny a rematch to because the people who make a fuss about this only ever do it one way.  They'll happily play one game themselves with white and then leave.

Any comparisons to club chess are irrelevant.  There aren't 20,000 players in a club, or at least not any I have ever been to so people have to resort to the boredom of playing the same people over and over again.

IMO the color is relevant. Sometimes, after loosing with black, I may hope a rematch with white ; statistics are what they are, and prove this would be fair.

However I'm not at all angry if that is not granted, and conversely I'm not always offering a rematch.

Do you ever play ,you seem to be on forum all the time talking well i wont say a bad word as it will upset little minds.

Problem solved!  I just suggested the following to Chess.com support, and think it would be helpful, if everyone who agrees with me would do the same to pressure them into it:

I contacted you a month ago suggesting you make one rematch mandatory in Blitz and Bullet games when a black player loses to a white player, and the black player requests it.  You can clearly see evidence of a large number of people who agree with me on player profiles where people post comments about how so-and-so is a one and run coward and such.

After following up on this idea in the blog forum, I now realize that all of these one-and-run players who have the comments on their profile are opposed to my idea.  It was one of these players who said in the blog that he wished there was a mandatory rematch OPTION so he didn't have to hear people like me whining about it all the time, or something to that effect.

So, that is the correction I would like to make to my earlier suggestion.  The Mandatory rematch rule should be OPTIONAL.  There should be six check boxes in the settings page.  Two boxes for Bullet, Two boxes for Blitz, and Two boxes for Standard.  One of the boxes would make ONE rematch mandatory when the loser requests it(regardless of color maybe), and the other box would make TWO rematches mandatory to make it the best out of three games if the loser of game one and game two requests a rematch.

You could add the option, and then advertise it for a month or so before it takes effect to grow the pool of players who select the option.  Also, if not enough players have selected the option, we should have a convenient button on the game screen to revert back to the normal pool of players if it takes too long for an opponent to be found.

Thank you, and I hope the developers implement my suggestion as soon as possible.

You're correct about color being irrelevant. The percentage of white wins on this site, 49. Black is 47 percent. Wow that's such a huge advantage for white! ...........

glamdring27 wrote:

The default is not to have a rematch.  There needs to be a special reason to have one, not a special reason not to have one.  There is no such reason therefore I don't rematch.  The colour you played as is irrelevant.  If you played Black then you'll get white against the next opponent whom you will likely beat and then deny a rematch to because the people who make a fuss about this only ever do it one way.  They'll happily play one game themselves with white and then leave.

Any comparisons to club chess are irrelevant.  There aren't 20,000 players in a club, or at least not any I have ever been to so people have to resort to the boredom of playing the same people over and over again.