Why Nobody plays rematch, It's SO DRILLS ME!

@DunnoItAll

I sometimes take losses personally. And I don't believe you are any higher even though you claim to be this Jesus figure spreading peace and love with your no rematch gospel.

But sometimes getting emotional (called tilting in poker) is not the reason why I like rematches. Rematches simply lead to better chess, because both players do their best and try to adjust to eachother.

Rematches are part of the "way of the warrior in chess", but most people don't see chess as a martial art or as a spiritual game (I do both).

But if you do not even understand that you are not being honorable by playing hit and run, keep doing it, we don't see this game on the same level. I often forget how other people think, most think progs play chess and other silly things. So yeah, have fun with chess no matter how you play it.

Some older wise men would probably call it the

"normative power of the factual".

If no-one wants to rematch then you'll better spare you the time to discuss it endlessly. It'll never become a law, rather the opposite.

It's just your weird opinion that rematches are "honorable." I don't share it. You can feel free to consider it dishonorable all you want. It's your hang up, not mine. Also, I have no idea how I'm supposed to "adjust" to an opponent in a rematch. Was I not already trying to play the best move in every position? How do I adjust that to do better in the rematch?

@DunnoItAll

I agree to disagree.

Adjusting to another players style is a "higher" level idea in chess (and in other strategy games like chess, for example poker, boxing, Starcraft 2, well, the list is endless).

A simple example is that you notice your opponent likes open positions, so you adjust by creating closed positions.

In boxing if your opponent is good from a long reach distance, you adjust by closing the distance and making him fight skin to skin with hooks and stuff.

In poker if your opponent goes all in all the time, you wait for a good hand, call him and take all his chips.

Adjusting is a very simple idea, the better you get at anything the more you learn to adjust.

Ah, I guess I could understand if you are talking about openings, but that doesn't seem like something you could tell after just one game. I know you find the way I look at this ridiculous, but I find the way you look at it ridiculous, so here we are. Time to move on, I suppose.

#24 The adjusting can have a drawback in the sense that if your opponent is an attack player and you are too, adjusting to positional playing will also lead you to playing something that isn't your strength. But handled in a careful way adjusting could be good I guess.

I'll be honest.... when several players in a row refuse rematches
it gets to me.

I don't think I've ever asked for a rematch.

I tend not to accept rematches for several reasons. I like variety in my opponents. Playing a series of games with the same opening can get a little tiresome.

I've also noticed a tendency for players who request rematches to only play as long as it takes for them to regain their points or exceed them. Then the insistence of a rematch etiquette is long forgotten. It can get boring fast.

Perhaps if you invited your opponent to a set series of game they'd be more open to the idea. Some, like myself, will only do so if we are on friendly terms with the other player.

If you are too strident in your rematch requests you might come across as a little too brash and entitled. It would certainly put me off.

As you certainly have noticed I am no friend of rematching.

Admittedly, in some rare cases I agree though:

-little possibilities to play, search for opponents lasts unusually long. So if there's an offer, why not?
-if I think there's more to gain, opponent who plays plain rubbish in a fast way. Why not winning the house? :D
-practicing a specific line

But these are rather exceptions, compensatory justice plays no decisive role.