People who do nothing but move fast in bullet chess lose a lot. You agree a time control, you have an opponent, you both know (or should know) the full rules of chess and you get on with it. There's no such thing as etiquette in any chess apart from for the weak-minded and easily offendible.

There's no such thing as etiquette in bullet chess. I play one 10-minute game and that is all I have time for unless it ends quickly and even then I will likely switch to a 5-minute game anyway.Ī mass chess server designed to pair up random largely anonymous people of roughly equal rating is really not the place to be playing if you want the social side of chess. Most of my live games I play at lunch time at work. If you want to call that etiquette then fine, I just consider the person doing it a moron, but it doesn't really bother me either way.īeing forced to accept a rematch from someone I just beat is not a 'simple, painless' thing to do. Obviously it goes without saying that not waiting until 0.5s left on your clock to checkmate is good manners. If someone chooses to accept a replay fine, if they don't fine, it's not part of the contract. If there was an option to play a 3-game match against someone then fine, but we sign up for 1 game. Rematches are a common source of people's whining. And on an international site, what seems like a nice gesture to one person can be considered offensive to another so it is often simplest to just play chess. That's fine with me, I didn't post it because I wanted a conversation anyway. I used to often post a 'gg' or 'good game' or whatever on people's notes page after I lost a Blitz game, but < 5% of people respond so I don't bother nowadays. So it doesn't matter if they are a human being or not, they signed up to play 1 game of chess just like I did. Here I'm online playing people who often don't even have their real name in their profile. If I went into someone's living room and ate their food while playing then sure I'd play a few games and probably chat after them and whatever else. I don't even know half the time if I'm playing a human or a human's computer anyway.

Poker why is calling the clock rude