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Playing annonymous

Something weird just happened to me. I just played a game annonymously. After the game was finished, I turned on the analysis board, and I saw that the whole game has already been analysed without me requesting the analysis of the game. In addition, I could see that there were two spectators during the game, one Anon, and one registered user. How weird is that!?
If you "Sign In" immediately after playing an Anonymous game, you'll stay on the game page. Since you can only initiate a computer analysis while logged in, it looks like your opponent signed in to their account in order to start one. If you didn't, the Anon user was probably you.
The thing is, I didn't sign in immediately after playing an anonymous game. I did it only AFTER I became aware of it.
I'm not sure I understand exactly what you're describing, but the "spectators" listed in the analysis board after a game ends are users (or Anon sessions) looking at the game right now (i.e. after it is finished), not users that were observing the game in progress.
Well, how can then one of the spectators be a registered user, if the game in question was a an anonymous game. As far as I am aware, it should not be possible to spectate an anonymous game.
I think its possible you're opponent signed into his/her account and analysed it.
Right, I don't think there's an easy way to find an Anonymous game to spectate or analyze without having the exact URL you get when playing. That's why the registered user you saw was probably the (previously) Anonymous player you played against after they signed in to request a computer evaluation.
The game could have been setup for analysis by lichess itself . They do that for various reasons

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