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wasatch 31-Aug-25, 05:36	Ratings Manipulators: my list These people have almost certainly manipulated at one time or another. Chess_tise: has been throwing games for the last 20 games or so. Has won a number of GK tournaments. Does not play on teams BUT certainly throws games on the tournament list. pulaster: won multiple mini-tournaments. Severe rating manipulation (near straight line of rating from 2019 thru 2024). copmanis: multiple tournament winner. When you check their games during the tourneys, you will normally find extremely accurate play (no errors when measured against the GK computer in post analysis). Kldr: unusually high team rating compared to normal rating (has 31 points out of 36 games).
gemfire 02-Sep-25, 01:21	Ratings I wish GK would keep ratings separate from each other; i.e. distinct ratings for team play, league ,ladder, etc. Don’t know how much more work this would be for them. In that way incentives to manipulate would be blunted. I play a lot of ladder and league games. You get to play a wide range of players that increases game variety not usually found in team games where the pool is limited to a tighter window of ability. When I lose too many of these types of games (within 16 moves or less), GK will send me daily annoying messages that I will be prohibited from further team games until my game loss record is kept below 20 (or so, I cant recall). You start getting these alerts when you obtain 10. Which makes no sense as I am apt to get clobbered more in those game rather than in team games.
lord_shiva 03-Sep-25, 23:45	Clobbered GK ought to modify their warning to not count games where the rating difference exceed 150 points. I challenged a bunch of 2400+ platers awhile back, and lost every game but one. Never got a warming, but maybe I didn’t break the threshold.
gemfire 03-Sep-25, 23:55	LS The trick is to go past 16 moves. Losing 10 or games under 16 moves within 30 days gets you red-flagged. Don't ask me how I know!!
wasatch 04-Sep-25, 03:12	I avoid anyone who is +300 above me especially since GK has weird unwritten “rules” on red flagging.
lord_shiva 04-Sep-25, 04:57	Moves Ah. Yeah, I generally like to play out to force mate, or at least to a clear end game result. I felt my average moves per game needed a boost. Except I recently joined the slow ladder, and stepping on lower rated players has helped me rise pretty fast. At one point I was +101, and only lost one early game. Not quite onto the first page yet, but I have issued first page challenges. Then it looks like I may be stymied in any further ascent. My team mate, Bear, was way up around the top twenty.
wasatch 05-Sep-25, 07:25	Adding gemcutter: fairly flat ratings and won one tournament.

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