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Does anyone know how you can remove your username from a google search? What i mean by this is if I type my own personal name into google my lichess account can be easily found, even if i removed my name from my account a couple months ago, it's still stored on the system. I want to ideally avoid people being able to prep against me in OTB tournaments. Someone I know managed to remove it, but he's not exactly sure how he did it. Thanks!

NM MrPushwood

#2

That's really your only reason?

TheDemonDentist

#3

@MrPushwood yes what else would it be?

Toadofsky

#4

Sadly I don't know what it takes to get Google to un-index information...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMChO0qNbkY

Sadly I don't know what it takes to get Google to un-index information... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMChO0qNbkY

Cedur216

#5

"OTB prep from Lichess games" is quite some paranoia imo ... first, why does everyone know your identity at Lichess? second, is it that crucial at your elo? I don't think so. Titled players also don't complain about preparing against eachother.

kajoM

#6

@Cedur216 said in #5:

"OTB prep from Lichess games" is quite some paranoia imo ... first, why does everyone know your identity at Lichess? second, is it that crucial at your elo? I don't think so. Titled players also don't complain about preparing against eachother.

I've certainly got an opening advantage by searching my OTB opponent's name in google and finding their chess.com account and I am not high rated. Every information that you can get about your opponent is valuable information, even if that only encouraged me to review my anti-KID line that I saw he had never faced before in online games.

@Cedur216 said in #5: > "OTB prep from Lichess games" is quite some paranoia imo ... first, why does everyone know your identity at Lichess? second, is it that crucial at your elo? I don't think so. Titled players also don't complain about preparing against eachother. I've certainly got an opening advantage by searching my OTB opponent's name in google and finding their chess.com account and I am not high rated. Every information that you can get about your opponent is valuable information, even if that only encouraged me to review my anti-KID line that I saw he had never faced before in online games.

TheDemonDentist

#7

@Cedur216 I played in an open recently with 2200+ players and all 7 opponents said they'd found my lichess and prepped against me - I could be wrong, but do you still reckon that's paranoia? And yes being prepped against for 15-20 moves is pretty annoying

TheDemonDentist

#8

@Toadofsky Thank you!

NM MrPushwood

#9

@TheDemonDentist said in #3:

@MrPushwood yes what else would it be?

Seems a bit pretentious to me.

@TheDemonDentist said in #3: > @MrPushwood yes what else would it be? Seems a bit pretentious to me.

Akbar2thegreat

#10

@TheDemonDentist
In that case you shouldn't have username after your real name and you should have picked any random pen name for you. Nobody would know about the person handling that account.
For your question, there's technically no way other than bribing Google! (jk)

@TheDemonDentist In that case you shouldn't have username after your real name and you should have picked any random pen name for you. Nobody would know about the person handling that account. For your question, there's technically no way other than bribing Google! (jk)