Why are speedruns even allowed?

Yes,   we should focus on what you are suggesting.  I've even suggested as much to a forum mod who wanted to mute me,  who said he would pass the suggestion along to chess.com.   They really should allow people to volunteer into a pool to play against the GM streamer.  Which would be better then going anonymously into the community of people queuing for competitive matches.    Chess.com could even make it only an option and privilege for subscribers only as a selling point.  

You're rated 2000+ on blitz and my highest has been 1300. I'm 100% sure I'm learning nothing from playing you as all your moves are at a depth I can't calculate so zero learning to be done there.

Playing against Hikaru would be even worse, even if he's explaining how if I make "this move" I get matted in 6 moves, I can't see that far ahead regardless of how many times that happens, so nothing to learn really.

When you then match Hikaru vs a 400 rated player, it's like telling the ants to learn to avoid the boots by getting stepped on repeatedly. 

BTW,  here is the answer to your question if  I really believe Super GM's play rated 400 players.  Beating a 400 Player: Step by Step - YouTube

Hikaru has been trolling this thread for over a week now.  So has Daniel Narditzky,  releasing speedrun video after speedrun video to spite it imo. Daniel even said he would no longer do speedruns and focus on his OTB tourney prep,  but has since abandoned that now.   And Hikaru has been making especially clickbaity and toxic titles like "ripping the rating away from the 1200s" for example.    Absolute sociopathic behavior.  Hikaru is without a doubt , just by the way he talks about and interacts with his stepfather and brother as if they are complete strangers to him. a sociopath.  And this is what they are teaching kids to be like.

I'll be getting muted for this but it must be said.   He is literally encouraging rating manipulation just with his youtube titles alone. Regardless if the points in his matches are returned he undermined the competitive matches of his opponents and breeded people who are doing it unofficially.    And he knows it and is doing it spitefully because of this thread now.   I mean you can read one past thread on here where a kid posts "i want to speedrun just like HIkaru"  and many posters replying to him telling him to do it  saying its fun.    I've seen chats on many twitch streams talking about having multiple accounts even one for each variant, and streamers literally encouraging it.  I find this unacceptable and why I feel Lichess is way more mature and honest and the matchups bear that out.

This is why I can come to no other conclusion as to why the ratings, especially at the beginner levels on this site, feel so lopsided and why there is so many new accounts compared to lichess who is known to ban even super gms.    These streamers are encouraging the use of multiple accounts.

No,  I assumed he was speedrunning like he does normally.

half the time I think I am playing against an alt account.  Whether the intention is to smurf doesn't really matter.   But the fact people having multiple accounts is so acceptable in this community is a huge problem.  And the speedrunners are leading by example.

half the time I think I am playing against an alt account.  Whether the intention is to smurf doesn't really matter.   But the fact people having multiple accounts is so acceptable in this community is a huge problem.  And the speedrunners are leading by example.

I often feel that my opponent is cheating. It is not uncommon the have this suspicion, especially when I am playing badly. When I do postgame analysis, however, I learn that my suspicions were because my board vision was so poor in that particular game. It is always worst when I am tired or angry.

I've looked at a large number of your games. I've not seen any evidence of a strong player smurfing. The strongest opponents you've faced among the several dozen games I've examined have been 1700ish on Lichess, and these players make fundamental errors that a master would never make.

That is not to say that I can be certain you have not played against an alt account. It is quite possible that you have. But, I've looked at enough of your games to know that you haven't faced any alt accounts in the past five days.

I got one guy spamming my inbox right now with 4 accounts lmao.  He says he plays one when he gets tired.    One of the things I find very telling when comparing lichess to chess.com.  is most profiles are either less then 2 months old,  or have less then a couple hundred games played.     Having multiple accounts is literally talked about openly on these very forums and on twitch,  and even encouraged by streamers.   Its extremely common even though its against TOS for good reason.  The resaon why people don't respect the TOS,  is because this is a site literally allow some people to use alt accounts.  

 I never talked about any such thing.  Stop trying to deflect the thread and put words in my mouth,  you are going to end up getting yourself muted.   wow....   Speedrunning has to do with alt accounts undermining competitive matchups even though it is something sanctioned by this site.   That is the subject of this thread please learn to stay on topic.