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luzhin657
25-Aug-24, 05:34

Gameknot best Site played on-Better than Chess.com or others!!?
I Have memberships with every online chess site worth a pawn push on, most of them I have abandoned, I now only play on Gameknot and occasionally SchemingMind? Gameknot is more genuine especially compared to the likes of Chess.com? The site that brags at being the best of the rest, I disagree. I was on Chess.com, my account is still active I just abandoned it and stopped playing on it 5 months ago, why!! ... too many people are having there accounts blocked and stopped for the silliest of reasons which does not make for a happy environment to play chess in!? I was shocked to discover that they openly employ Levy Rozman a streamer for chess.com to hack into people's game challenges and pretend to be a 1000 rated opponent and play them and then decide if they are cheating and whether to ban them or not? Mr Rozman then uses the games on his youtube chanel as a form of entertainment Bragging how he caught someone and got there account suspended there are loads of his vidos on YouTube doesn't say a lot for the professionalism of chess.com as a site, thank God for Gameknot much better by far!!
myrydin
25-Aug-24, 10:00

Hold on, isn’t pretending to be a much lower rated player a kind of breach of their rules, similar to rating manipulation? If true, it doesn’t seem right to me.
luzhin657
25-Aug-24, 15:26

myrydin is right messaged Levy Rozman, he refused to reply!!?
myrydin is 100% right Levy Rozman pretending to be a 1000 elo to catch people he says are cheating only means he is a cheat himself, he is Lieing about his own rating, even worse sees his actions as a way of making money by videoing his game and adding comments and then putting them on his youtube to name and shame players, players who are supposed to look up to him since he is a I.M. and what's worse of his actions are Chess.com are paying him for his troubles?!! Chess.com is not being run by nice people, they suspend your account if you don't accept changes and turn too many down? You dare not play a queen sac, or sac a couple bishops to setup a forced mate, or your be accused and have your account frozen, it's not a relaxing environment Gameknot is 100% better and more enjoyable.
laurent_baptiste
27-Aug-24, 08:39

Popular streamers usually request a low rated account to chess.com to play low level players and create "Road to xxxx elo" videos, or just player amateur under 2000 subscribers.

Chess com and streamers have said those accounts get cancelled later on and all elo points refunded.

Some time ago Levy Rozman showed he had some sort of admin commands to arrange matches, probably granted to him so he could arrange matches against his viewers, which he misused to make two cheaters face each other.
Im honestly not very fond of handing streamers such privileges as they can be misused, but I guess it's all good for clout and money.
myrydin
27-Aug-24, 11:54

Thanks for that, l-b, I guess that means my last post doesn’t apply, as it would no case of alleged rating manipulation after all, if rating points are refunded as appropriate.

Of course, every chess site has their own strategy for dealing with unfair play, which they’re absolutely entitled to do. I’ve mostly played online chess here, because I like/d their professional approach.
luzhin657
27-Aug-24, 19:30

Don't think Levi Rozman is a nice guy, just keep him away from Gameknot please!!
Last thing we want is Levi Rozman on here, pretending to be an ordinary wood pusher and sticking our games on his youtube chanel and shaming players who are trying to play half decent chess. Leave him on chess.com!!?
Hikaru was asked if he thinks Rozman will ever become a G.M. he says "NO" and that angered Rozman, good he can be on tge receiving end for a change, like some of his victims he intimidated!