It seems like it's not possible; but it would be nice to hide my archived games for all members who are not friends with me on Chess.com.
I will be playing more serious tournaments this season, and I have always used blitz games in order to practice my openings. It is today very easy for my opponents to find me on Chess.com and thus get detailed information about my opening repertoire.
This is obviously not a unique problem for this site, it's always been like that. What serious players tend to do is to create anonymous accounts, but I would prefer not to do that obviously.
Is that a feature you would consider implementing on the site in the future, or would that be against the principle of having an open and transparent community?
Regards,
Mikael
The better players have long had their games published-- via the Informant and for the last 10 or 20 years via online databases. There's no escaping that. There are already 30 or so games of yours published on the live Chessbase database. It seems like you play the French Defense a lot.
Chess.com offers the ability to look at other players archives for premium members. I would guess that this service is very valuable to correspondence players and not of much competitive use to most others, who don't know who they will be matched with in live chess or have the time to go through many games in an archive while a blitz or shorter game is being played.
The ability to make archives "secret" would probably cut into membership sales to correspondence players. I have no idea how many premium members the site has, but I would guess that it won't voluntarily do anything that could enrage thousands of members for the benefit of the few who play high level OTB chess.
If you seriously want to hide your discoveries in the French Defense, I see no alternative to creating anonymous accounts.
PS There may be some good news for you in V3. I have tried out V3 and so far I have not been able to figure out how to access other players' archives. (The link underlining the number of games, which pulls up the archive in Old Chess.com, just pulls up my own game archive.) I don't know if this is a bug or a feature.
It seems like it's not possible; but it would be nice to hide my archived games for all members who are not friends with me on Chess.com.
I will be playing more serious tournaments this season, and I have always used blitz games in order to practice my openings. It is today very easy for my opponents to find me on Chess.com and thus get detailed information about my opening repertoire.
This is obviously not a unique problem for this site, it's always been like that. What serious players tend to do is to create anonymous accounts, but I would prefer not to do that obviously.
Is that a feature you would consider implementing on the site in the future, or would that be against the principle of having an open and transparent community?
Regards,
Mikael