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What if the playing style of one game is already enough to hint at who might be playing?
by sureglymop 4y ago
What if the playing style of one game is already enough to hint at who might be playing?
- alkonaut 4y agoThen you are never entirely anonymous. I doubt that’s the case though.
- YetAnotherNick 4y agoThey aren’t comparing two sets of games. They are comparing a single game with all player's known set of game. Any FIDE rated player will have a set of games that is known to everyone.
- alkonaut 4y agoYes. If you played enough as a human then you can't play a completely anonymous/pseudonymous game. Just like if you have written 10 bestsellers you probably can't write even a short pseudonymous newspaper column without someone recognizing your style. They can't be sure from that little information, so you aren't completely exposed - but if you keep writing a series of columns they'll be more and more sure. The same thing with chess. Play chess under your real name (or write texts or draw illustrations whatever) and you'll never do so anonymously again. I'm not sure what's so upsetting or revolutionary here.
- lmm 4y agoThe fact that entire games have been repeated, even in top-level play, proves that there's not enough information to determine a player's identity from a single game.