So after playing mostly 30-minute games, occasional 10-minute games and dabbling in the "blitz" and "bullet" sections, I've now played eight "daily" games, with from 24 hours to seven days to make each move and no overall time limit. In the shorter games, I've won about 50% and my rating goes up and down – pretty average and unremarkable. But out of the eight daily games I've played, my score is... eight won out of eight. That is a bit odd.
But what's really struck me is the different behaviour of my opponents. In shorter games, people do odd things like offer you a draw after the second move – what's that about
. Or abort the game before making a move. I once had a game where I'd lost several pieces and got myself into a pretty bad position, whereupon my opponent started sending me messages: "Why don't you resign?" "Just give up now!" "Stop this and put an end to it for both of us." I played on and checkmated him, which felt most righteous.
But nothing like that has happened in a longer game.