I posted in your other topic as well, but color selection on new games is not entirely random. The system will try to balance both player's historical color allocations.
Rematch Declined - site design suggestion
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May 18, 2017
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I think there are probably very few people who refuse rematches for the sole reason of not playing black. Whites advantage is minimal and really only noticeable at the highest levels of play... I usually refuse rematches just because I don't feel like playing another game right away.......
Jun 12, 2017
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Jeesh. How many different threads are we going to have on the same subject?
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/play-once-and-refuse-rematch
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/10-reasons-as-to-why-i-refuse-a-rematch?quote_id=30307484&page=1
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/livechess/what-does-mean-when-a-player-refuse-to-rematch?page=1
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/rematch-problem-solved
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/of-course-you-owe-a-rematch
People need to stop whining. No one owes anyone two games.
Next, we need another thread either asking if or claiming that Bobby Fischer is the greatest chess player of all time.
Jun 12, 2017
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#5
If you play in an OTB tournament, you don't play the same player twice, why should you feel it's unsportsmanlike to not play a player twice if you win the first time with White? By doing so, you will end up playing more games as Black than White. If you don't offer a rematch, your opponent still has an opportunity to win his/her next game, whoever it's played against.
Hi chess.com,
I posted this to the community forum as well but wanted to make sure you guys saw this too.
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Something has been bugging me for a while. Its when playing live chess. Its when your opponent plays white first up and wins and then won't rematch. While I would agree that it is their right to decline, it is not really very sporting. Unfortunately it is becoming more and more common, and it seems now that a lot of people do it because so many people do it to them, and so its the only way to correct the imbalance. The effect is a general feeling of unpleasantness. I would prefer that we instead experienced live chess as a friendly and fair interchange with a deeper feeling of camaraderie behind it all. There are many players who are nice and genuine and so on, but an increasing number are not.
Essentially, by avoiding the rematch which you know will be a black game, you are going back to a 50:50 chance of getting another white game because this is randomly chosen by the system. As a result you can finesse the system so you can get up to 75% of your games as white. This an artificial way of increasing your rating, but also a way to get more wins - cheaply.
have had this happen to me so often that I have taken to comment on player's pages when they do this, and more often then not there is a string of similar complaints from their past opponents all saying things like that player is a coward or not a good sport or a #@!*&$!!!! and much much worse.
So I propose two things to address this.
1. Chess.com could change the opponent select and black/white allocation from using a random selection of black or white for each new challenge (a fresh opponent), to a system that calculates what your historical ratio of B V W is. If you have a heavy white bias in your games - which can only be due to you deliberately declining rematches where you would be playing as black - then the system will set you up as black, and keep doing this until your balance of completed games is closer to 50:50 B/W. This would also guard against aborting black games on new challenges from others.
Note that the system could come up against the problem where it searches and finds an opponent that also has a low black count, in which case it should keep searching. The benefit of this would be that for the player who is trying to avoid playing black games will progressively find they have to wait longer and longer before the system finds them an opponent.
2. The other side of this is discourage bad behavior in the eyes of the community. I think if someone's ratio of black to white gets beyond say 55:45 then is very likely that they are gaming the system, in which case their name should be shown in a particular colored font. I suggest scarlet.
This would alert others to this person not being fair minded and not conducting themselves in the spirit of the game.
I feel that the combination of these two things should be enough to stamp this problem out.
I would be interested very interested in hearing everyone's thoughts on this.
Thanks,
Cyber