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Why do Anonymus spectators keep showing up at my studies?

Now i am interested to see your studies, as anonymous spectator.
Search engines use Webcrawlers to continuously creep, crawl and catalog everywhere and anything on the web. If your studies are not hidden / unlisted - they will find you.
Then when a rando person does a silly chess search, they click on a search result and voila - a random lost anonymous is camping out on your study probably deliberately bothering you. (Grin)
Less than 10% of my studies are unrestricted - these are the ones that I proudly consider as being a just bit less lame than my typical efforts.
@kajalmaya said in #4:
> They are secretly preparing strategies to play against you. My suggestion is prepare some fake studies, like openings you are not really interested in, which will mislead your competitors. Or make some random comments in your studies, like "Aronian showed convincingly (Aronian - Nakamura, Linares 2009) that developing Be6 in this variation is bad for black". Your competitors, who are looking at your studies, are not likely to be checking if Aronian and Nakamura played in Linares 2009 (or whether there was Linares 2009).

You just exposed your idea to your competitors. They will pay much attention to your games and studies and check for any cited games or so.
@Abigail-III said in #3:
> They are ghosts of chess players who have passed away, but who cannot leave chess behind.
@unagany said in #1:
> Sometimes, I see 1 or 2 "Anonymous" spectators at my studies

The one or two ghosts are Morphy and Fischer

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