#Online bullet chess against computer full#

If you can't play bullet chess just don't play it. You might as well just say it isn't chess unless you think for between 3 minutes 37 seconds and 7 minutes 28 seconds per move otherwise there's too little thinking or too much time wasting or whatever else you want to pull out of thin air as a reason! Likewise any number of tactics that people play. You don't need to think to see a Knight fork, you just see it and instantly recognise the pattern. Saying chess is just about thinking is just like boiling down any activity to one component that you arbitrarily think is the most important. Some people think for ages and play bad moves, some don't think at all and play good moves. Some people think fast, some people think slowly, some people seemingly think about anything but the game they are playing. If you follow them then you are playing chess. Since when was chess boiled down to just being 'thinking' as the most important element?Ĭhess has a set of rules. it s not a breach of ettiquette to play to win but there is definitely ettiqutte in chessīullet chess is called chess but it isn't chess.Same way as putting 2 monkeys mechanically reproducing a game by repeating some moves.You might call it monkey chess but it isn't chess.Why?Because there is no thinking. There is absolutely ettiqutte in chess! at least in otb. People who play bullet chess expecting some sort of awesome game of chess to be played and for their opponent to resign if they are a pawn down but you only have 1 second to complete the 30 moves it would take you to prove the victory really need to get a reality check and play a time control more suitable to their aims. Good bullet chess players try to play good pragmatic chess as fast as they can, but if or when that fails and you just have a time scramble then you just play pragmatic moves fast and aim to avoid running out of time and have your opponent run out instead. People who try to play their immortal game in bullet chess lose a lot. People who do nothing but move fast in bullet chess lose a lot.

#Online bullet chess against computer full#

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.