Hide Opponent’s Rank?
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If you are intimidated by higher ranked opponents, or over-confident with lower ranked opponents, how would your game changed if the opponent’s rank was hidden until game over?
I am not intimidated by very much at this point, and I have enough experience to know that lower-rated opponents can beat me. Information about an opponent can be useful; skill as represented by the rating, age if it were published next to the game board, sometimes nationality due to different styles and areas of the world that I have trouble beating, and one suggestion for improvement would be the opponent's favorite d4 and e4 openings and defenses, but then they could see that about me.
Oct 22, 2018
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#3
there's already a thread for this problem before and people suggest some solution there
My rating is 258. Im terrible go check my account
Maybe 258
Where, YureaLily? I did a term search before posting. I don't consider it a "problem," though.
Oct 23, 2018
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#7
Thanks, YureaLily! Hmmmm, stiggling. I had to google "back rank." Chess humor. Sigh. ;-)
Oct 24, 2018
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#10
That's like saying on a music forum "I had to google what a key signature was"
Or a basketball forum what a backboard is
Or shading in an art forum
You get the idea... but kudos for actually googling. A lot of people seem to ask what terms or phrases mean when they could just google.
Thanks, stiggling. Hopefully my self-esteem will never be so low that I'd care about such a minor thing.
Nov 28, 2018
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#12
Ok.
But still, it would be interesting to play a game where neither player can see the opponent's back rank (and there's no move list) so something like Kg1-h1 would just be a mystery, you wouldn't know whether they moved a rook or something else.