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why are some Anonymous players able to chat ?

Where have you seen this? The last chatting functionality for Anonymous players has been disabled years ago already.

(edit: I forgot one exception: Anonymous users you play through "Play with a friend" can chat, but that's it.)
You've never played any anonymous players (at least @TheChild hasn't). Probably you mistakenly believe that anonymous players can only play with other anonymous players, and you're anonymously playing a logged in player, assuming they are also anonymous. Three years ago, you also played AnonymChess twice, anonymous64 once, and anonygoose once (all of which are registered users): lichess.org/tkMRKWAk lichess.org/7b7Zjk2E lichess.org/EpDCnt8J lichess.org/cF0G6RRz

But I can't really do anymore than speculate, since you didn't post a game.

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