I don't have live1 as an option, chesscom always forces CDN routing and I always have high ping to all the available servers even ones that r supposedly in the EU.
The site uses a distributed network of servers. I don't know the specifics of the algorithm used to choose which server a game is played on but I don't imagine there'll ever be option to bypass that.
I don't have live1 as an option, chesscom always forces CDN routing and I always have high ping to all the available servers even ones that r supposedly in the EU.