gg is arrogance

gb (good blog)

I only posted this to see how many numnutz out there will start blogs criticizing the use of "gb" since there have been so many blogs about the use of "gg"

This. If it genuinely was a good game, no thinking person will take "gg" as a mark of arrogance. If you've made a terrible blunder that obviously lost the game for you, a "gg" from your opponent is always annoying. 

Don't be daft. They aren't saying it to annoy you. If that's what happens then it's you that's got a problem?

Is simply your opponent signing-off & ending the game.

My problem is simple (pay attentions psychoanalysts--you're gonna get some babble material here): I HATE TO LOSE. I especially hate to lose to lower rated players, which means something close to 97% of everyone here. When I do lose to someone lower rated, and I do, it most assuredly was not a good game. Rather, I played like a noob.

You may not INTEND to irritate me with your arrogant display of an utter failure to comprehend how I handed you that win through excessive drunkenness, egregious mouseslips, or temporary insanity, but despite your intent, the EFFECT of your "gg" is that I want to reach through the computer screen and bash you with my empty whiskey bottle. I'm also crying for my mommy, but I will never admit that publicly.

In motor racing for example am sure nos 2 & 3 on the podium are unhappy about that However should the no 1 say ''good-race'' & offer a handshake after it would be a boorish-response to reject that or become embittered or angry?

Interestingly enough, I just played a "blitz" chess game on live chess and my opponent Lukiotio said "gg" to me, and when I said "gg" he responded quit saying that, you freak!

Gotta love the internets!

Mebbe he read this thread.

The drunker Ziryab gets, the more I like him. 

How about saying:

Excellent game?

Good game?

Fair game?

Poor game?

F' up game?

To me gg is just being friendly and a good sport.

Preliumtarn

"gg" just saves me typing "That was a reasonably well played endeavour, expect for the occasional misstep. Fortunately, I was able to capitalize on your slight inaccuracy and parlay it into a winning advantage. I respect you as a player, although not quite as much as I might had you won. Pwnd sucker! Plus, my manly girth far exceeds yours, and your wife agrees."

Didn't W C Fields say that?

Butt my but is larger

Considering most of the people you will play against on this site aren't watching you through your bedroom window (and hence unable to correctly infer that your mistakes were the result of your supposed whiskey-swilling tendencies and not your inferior chess ability) their "failure to comprehend" precisely how you "handed them that game" seems understandable. 

It quite clear that you are not watching through the bedroom window because the curtains are closed, and that's the room that I use the least often for playing online blitz. I play more in the loo. If I catch you peering though that window, your calculation of the risks may prove to have been one of your worst errors.

It is equally clear, however, that every player with a modicum of chess skill can see that I gave away the game through gross blunders. The reasons for my temporary incompetence are varied and not something an online opponent can readily perceive. But his or her reading of the cause of victory can be only a FAILURE TO COMPREHEND if GOOD was perceived in the blunderfest.

what a complete nonissue; somebody has too much time on their hands

Uh-oh, that's just about a half-step away from "Get a life"...

Note, not "GAL" though, which would just be rude.

Get a gal?