There's something about the 'bye' response I really don't like.

Especially if my opponent wins and leaves me sitting there trying to figure out what just happened and then they say .....bye! I hate it
Can't we have a different standard response like unlucky or nvm or something xxx

you could try
pressing the green box to close chat
or ignoring it if you hate it which is alot less work than hating

@for_cryingout_loud said in #2:
> you could try
> pressing the green box to close chat
> or ignoring it if you hate it which is alot less work than hating
I don't wanna close chat , maybe hate is too strong a word , but it really gets my goat!

Just say "Hello" or "GL" at the beginnig of your match, then the "Bye" will be put in a totally different context :D

I can't work it out. Whatever we do or don't do in the chat, it can be misconstrued. The emotions run high during a game.

Sometimes I have used the "good game" standard phrase which I would have thought should offend no-one, but actually I think even that can go down the wrong way if we have just won, the opponent thinking "No, it wasn't a good game at all, how dare you think that my bad play is good for how I normally play...!!" or something.

I've also favoured saying nothing, only responding if the opponent says something. But that can be wrong too. "How dare the player just leave without saying anything when they've just beaten me...!!"

@Brian-E said in #5:
> I can't work it out. Whatever we do or don't do in the chat, it can be misconstrued. The emotions run high during a game.
>
> Sometimes I have used the "good game" standard phrase which I would have thought should offend no-one, but actually I think even that can go down the wrong way if we have just won, the opponent thinking "No, it wasn't a good game at all, how dare you think that my bad play is good for how I normally play...!!" or something.
>
> I've also favoured saying nothing, only responding if the opponent says something. But that can be wrong too. "How dare the player just leave without saying anything when they've just beaten me...!!"

Ha ha so true I always say unlucky to an opponent if I've won , no one been upset yet ,
Yes anything can be taken the wrong way ,nature of text, don't know how a text sounds to the other person ,no emotion of how they read it , some people don't even think luck ( good luck or unlucky) have anything to do with chess and get insulted xxx

@Brian-E said in #5:
> I can't work it out. Whatever we do or don't do in the chat, it can be misconstrued. The emotions run high during a game.
>
> Sometimes I have used the "good game" standard phrase which I would have thought should offend no-one, but actually I think even that can go down the wrong way if we have just won, the opponent thinking "No, it wasn't a good game at all, how dare you think that my bad play is good for how I normally play...!!" or something.
>
> I've also favoured saying nothing, only responding if the opponent says something. But that can be wrong too. "How dare the player just leave without saying anything when they've just beaten me...!!"

I do it this way:
- "Have fun!" before the start;
- at the end of the game, if I lose, I congratulate ( "Well played", or "Good job!"); If I win I don't say anything, I expect the
opponent to congratulate me ( but it almost never happens... obviously I play badly even when I win, and I never deserve to win...! )

I always write BYE! to annoy my opponents, it's fun!
Additionally, I like to write one of the following sentences below:

- Congratulations, Take the L
- Thanks for the rating bro
- Good luck next time LOL!
- Nice game... 4 me
- Have a nice day LMAO or at least try after this game, KEK!

Do you want players to say bye or ghost? It's one or the other. The other words need to fit the age group you are saying bye to. Online we do not know the age group, so it's best to keep it short or formal.