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What about time?

Don't you think is a polite thing to do, to give your opponents some time when is needed? In a recent game I asked for some time, but no luck.
i give time for casual, friends
but most take time very seriously and I think its fair, its part of the game, of the ruleset.
Chess used to be without time but in the internet or nowadays
its the contrary, every second counts, its almost a piece.
You can play unlimited if u like but its unsual or correspondence.
The problem is that most players care more about rating points and the current victory of the game than to
understand the actual position and the end result is that the mayority of the games are blitz bullet and are crap
but its like cocaine or soda, u get a high basically,
I dont do drugs except chess
Now It kind of make senses to play this time controls if u are a little experienced but since u are a beginner
try to meet the few that will play longer time controls
or just like to think while playing instead of winning
Basically chess has two emotions this amazing feeling of adrenaline which is stressful interesting and so on
but its not chess and then u have chess which is to look at the position and think a little which I dont do it really
Im not a complete drug addict cause I dont play bullet but I do play in general short games but the best feeling of chess usually comes when u spend time thinking, that is the true joy of chess to think and not the time and rush but anyway.
Because when u think a little some minutes about the position then you always learn new concepts and new ideas and the game gets richer, so thats my recommendation.
You gave me an idea, I am going to create a team of no time rush, or add time while playing, You can join.
Done,
We add time while playing,
its called.
@motion, I will join, when I figure out how :-)

the question was though what is polite or acceptable or just good thing to do upon request. In a game I sacrificed my queen when the player told me he was on the phone and he didn't pay attention when I captured his queen. that looked fair to me.

You can say its polite but u can also say that its silly depend how you look at it, its like giving a waitress money for example
the rules of the game are clear you dont need to add time to your adversary but if You see the game not just as a sport, or rough competion but rather have more like a casual look at it, then You can say play casual of course
but there are two things first you can play casual and maybe your opponent does not add time, second you face anonnymous which are less reliable than registered users and third even if u like to play casual with a casual feeling u still might want to play rated since that records your progress but this has actually nothing to do with adding time
except that if u are relaxed and ur opponent is relaxed is more likely to add time but besides that even if u are competitive, im a very competitive person but im relaxed as well, u still can be competitive even if u give ur opponent seconds
But as I said it is completely fair to not to do so, since much of chess is time management but anyway I created that group cause I prefer the board than the competition I like to see the positions more than winning and losing I really dont care about that.
Let me try to explain this again in case You did not understand, if you play chess with the aim of victory crushing your opponent then time management is important and its a resource if however u care more about chess itself about the game the nature of the game and not just the competition, then u will give your opponent time because you prefer to understand the board than to win or to lose.
So sometimes you have to choose between beating your opponent and not learning anything or playing a bad game or keep playing the game just for the beauty of the game,
It depence of your priorities, now I like to win as everybody else but I like also the idea of adding time and receiving time, one reason for this,
its to play endgames and not silly moves,
basically I like to find a good move or try to and I think the game gets very, sometimes it gets very of a worse quality due to the time constrain,
Its not an easy question really, until now I think I have only given time in casual games and not in rated, maybe that is a good procedure, I need to sleep again thats why I get confused.
So I recommend in casual do anything u like, in rated if u play for victory no takebacks, no time, nothing, only handshake gg and friends post analysis or you can
say hey, I dont care so much about the outcome of this game but rather I want to understand this position, like an experiment, I want to know the meaning of the position if that is the case then u are seeing the game objective like mathematics and the sport feeling is out, do you understand me?
Sometimes I just care about the position and dont care about the outcome because the position is rich enough for me and I feel the necessity to know it, thats what I mean.
In fact sometimes I play bad moves while I play because I want to know like if I were analyzing because to me chess is curiosity above all rather than competition.
@motion you write a lot, I can play really long games like 60 mins or 90 mins but only for USCF on lichess I play a lot of fast games becuse in my tournament games I get in time trouble a lot so I need to move fast and ullet and blitz help with that but some times I play a 45 mins or 90 or 60 mins games on lichess.org
I try to convince myself only of playing longer time controls but its been months without playing anything longer than 15+15 or about that, so yes, some day I will play long
until that happens I will keep rambling.
Time is an element of the game so asking for or giving time rarely makes no sense to me. I've played many games where I won or was beaten when the winning side's strategy was to sufficiently complicate to win on time in a losing position. This is the nature of blitz as a game.

My one exception: If a person makes an obvious mouse slip early in a game of 5 minutes or longer and also asks for a takeback I will give the takeback and a small amount of time. I usually don't ask for takebacks. We all win and lose silly games due to slips.
In a casual game, I give time and take back move.
In a rated game. No

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