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englishnotation
4/09/2008
09:58:17
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 Subject: Question
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If you just won a game and the loser challanges you to another game and you don;t wish to play him another game(for different reasons) what is proper responce?. I relize and usually always give the person a chance for revenge but really don;t want to play this person again!!!
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tag1153
4/09/2008
10:02:25
[ report abuse ] | english
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If you have a bad experience with a player, and want to avoid him/her in the future, simply click the 'ignore' link on their profile. They will not be able to challenge you or communicate with you.....
tag1153
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newjack
4/09/2008
11:12:19
[ report abuse ] | Just tell them
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Just tell them why you don't want to play. May be its something they can approven on next game.
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lturner
4/09/2008
19:29:05
[ report abuse ] | Honsety is the best policy
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Maybe you can show him the error of his ways.
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ccmcacollister
4/10/2008
02:35:11
[ report abuse ] | ENGLISHNOTATION . . .
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You are not required by Rule or Etiquette to provide a reason if you do not wish to play a second game. You may simply click the refusal for the Challenge. If your opponent did engage in any unpleasant remarks or deeds in or since the first game, I would think no explanation required. Or if you do wish to comment, simply to meet your own sense of courtesy in the matter, a simply "No Thank You" added to the Challenge refusal page will suffice. (No explanation should be required & indeed I would consider it aggressive, perhaps rude, if he should write back and press you for one. In such case, it would be appropriate to offer no response to that, or simply on the order of "It is not in my plans at this time". Repeated Questioning of this nature, demanding information to which he is not entitled, could clearly earn him a place on your Ignore list, without remorse. Or immediately if he has already engaged in bad behaviour.
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On The Other Hand, IF you feel something with a bit more Zing yet avoiding rudeness
might better serve at this time ... perhaps something on the order of the following ?!
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"After an Epic battle of wits and skill such as we have recently engaged in, producing two such fine & monumental efforts; it is clear to me that it will be quite some time before I would feel prepared and able to once again attempt to engage in such a Herculean task. Be assured I will contact you promptly, when & if it happens that I feel recovered completely, in every way, from the unprecedented experience of our first game."
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Regards, Craig A.C. }8-))
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kansaspatzer
4/10/2008
22:37:04
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On FICS, I played one user in a non-blitz game. I had no desire to play another afterward and declined his request. He started using profanity and told me I was breaching some form of etiquette by resigning, but I genuinely don't feel that this is any breach of etiquette. Certainly using profanity is, though!
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ionadowman
4/11/2008
14:12:28
[ report abuse ] | Craig...
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... as Lucy van Pelt once remarked, it's not often you find such carefully prepared sarcasm! ;-)
Early in my days on GK, whilst still with a provisional of 1200, I had one or two such opponents who wanted a second game. As I find it hard to refuse challenges (no doubt the iron will eventually enter the soul), I accepted them. But I was playing quite fast at the time, the games lasted maybe a week, and then ... no more challenges.
Honour satisfied on both sides, I reckon.
Cheers,
Ion
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