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So talking about person X with person Y without X's consent is a crime if person Y previously did not know person X. Let's police that.
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As a spectator, I don't need to know who is playing to enjoy surprising and beautiful moves.
Not every super GM can afford like Magnus to play public games and give prep material to their potential opponents
Not every Gm want their boss or step mum to learn about that they won a bullet tournament at the time they were supposed to fix the sink.
As a spectator, I don't need to know who is playing to enjoy surprising and beautiful moves.
Not every super GM can afford like Magnus to play public games and give prep material to their potential opponents
Not every Gm want their boss or step mum to learn about that they won a bullet tournament at the time they were supposed to fix the sink.
I don't mind them not having to give their name. As long as lichess has verified who it is, that's enough for me. We know they're strong gms and that's what matters. After all, as soon as they start giving their names, their opponents' can watch the games, the openings, etc and maybe the player playing just wants to have fun and play without that burden.
I can confirm Grey_parrot is Doug Polk.
unfortunately , I can´t reveal my source.
GGs all!
unfortunately , I can´t reveal my source.
GGs all!
#157
I doubt it, Grey_parrot is extremly unbalanced toward wins, Doug Polk would play more GTO and adds some loss and draws to the mix
I doubt it, Grey_parrot is extremly unbalanced toward wins, Doug Polk would play more GTO and adds some loss and draws to the mix
plot twist, they're all Nakumora and he's just anon to hide that he played on multiple accounts at once
Unless someone is under political, racial, or personal persecution - there doesn't seem to be good reason to be anonymous. You would think that someone of accomplishment would want to be known or recognized. This seems to be "Chess" in general shooting itself in the foot. People will want to watch pro darts or pro bowling or polo -- I think they even put the names of the horses up on TV.
@mvha (#128)
"Anonimity is also preferred in real life chess. Please look at en.chessbase.com/post/secret-championship-in-ukraine "
Sir. you are quoting a single case, from 2015, and commented in the lead of the same article with words: "many people think this serious secrecy is a joke".
I think you need more proof for telling that "anonimity is preferred in real life chess". Maybe it is wished by some, but due to obvious reason it is not "more difficult to achieve", as you write, but completely unavailable, not present, and actually would lead the world of chess tournaments to severe problems.
I understand in your perfect anonymous chess world:
- chessbase and other chess databases projects would be banned, and deleted (any local personal copies certainly banned and pursued by the police, still available in darkest parts of the black market),
- online broadcasts of chess big and local events would be impossible,
- chess news would be no more containing not only games (maybe with allowing only diagrams with positions from advanced phase of the game to avoid recognition, with what opening variant have they been played), but also names of players (to avoid revealing they participated in concrete tournament), and even their gender (that due modern political correctness), or other data that could rise the possibility of reveal their identity (e.g. The Week in Chess could not write about a dark blonde 30-year-old Norwegian, that he participated in some top level event)
- fans would be not allowed to attend tournaments (do you realize, that the mentioned by you Ukrainian Championship could have been visited by a fan of Hou Yifan, who would memorize games of Muzychuk and send the moves to China? :D),
- and if possible players' faces should be covered during game, if the organizers are not able to provide a play room with players sitting in separate boxes, seeing the chessboard, but having their faces hiden from the view of the opponent or other players (I'm afraid organizers and arbiters still need to know the identity of all players participating, but I am sure that the anonymous chess movement will invent some good way to overgo this sad restriction too).
Btw. I observe this thinking even at low local level tournaments (players ranked around 1300-1900 FIDE) here in Warsaw, Poland, where some players are very upset their games are being published after the tournament. They are small minority, but a very characteristic one. Some even have suggested sueing the arbiters in public courts for doing that, because they reveal something they created, and without their agreement...
Sometimes when you talk with them, they claim they want to hide their preparation (1500 rated :D), their opening repertoire (when a player is playing constantly the same opening with Black, I even can believe him), but what I feel is decisive in this level, is rather unability to accept that some their stupid moves, like giving away a queen or checkmate in two for nothing (well, happens, right?) would be revealed in public. And you understand how unbearable shame it is... :D
"Anonimity is also preferred in real life chess. Please look at en.chessbase.com/post/secret-championship-in-ukraine "
Sir. you are quoting a single case, from 2015, and commented in the lead of the same article with words: "many people think this serious secrecy is a joke".
I think you need more proof for telling that "anonimity is preferred in real life chess". Maybe it is wished by some, but due to obvious reason it is not "more difficult to achieve", as you write, but completely unavailable, not present, and actually would lead the world of chess tournaments to severe problems.
I understand in your perfect anonymous chess world:
- chessbase and other chess databases projects would be banned, and deleted (any local personal copies certainly banned and pursued by the police, still available in darkest parts of the black market),
- online broadcasts of chess big and local events would be impossible,
- chess news would be no more containing not only games (maybe with allowing only diagrams with positions from advanced phase of the game to avoid recognition, with what opening variant have they been played), but also names of players (to avoid revealing they participated in concrete tournament), and even their gender (that due modern political correctness), or other data that could rise the possibility of reveal their identity (e.g. The Week in Chess could not write about a dark blonde 30-year-old Norwegian, that he participated in some top level event)
- fans would be not allowed to attend tournaments (do you realize, that the mentioned by you Ukrainian Championship could have been visited by a fan of Hou Yifan, who would memorize games of Muzychuk and send the moves to China? :D),
- and if possible players' faces should be covered during game, if the organizers are not able to provide a play room with players sitting in separate boxes, seeing the chessboard, but having their faces hiden from the view of the opponent or other players (I'm afraid organizers and arbiters still need to know the identity of all players participating, but I am sure that the anonymous chess movement will invent some good way to overgo this sad restriction too).
Btw. I observe this thinking even at low local level tournaments (players ranked around 1300-1900 FIDE) here in Warsaw, Poland, where some players are very upset their games are being published after the tournament. They are small minority, but a very characteristic one. Some even have suggested sueing the arbiters in public courts for doing that, because they reveal something they created, and without their agreement...
Sometimes when you talk with them, they claim they want to hide their preparation (1500 rated :D), their opening repertoire (when a player is playing constantly the same opening with Black, I even can believe him), but what I feel is decisive in this level, is rather unability to accept that some their stupid moves, like giving away a queen or checkmate in two for nothing (well, happens, right?) would be revealed in public. And you understand how unbearable shame it is... :D
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