Feature suggestion - opponent by nationality

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toxic_internet

I would like to be able to play people from countries in which I have cultural interest.  I like it that chess.com brings people from all over the world together, and we can talk to each other whereas in real life we would probably never meet.  I have made new friends in parts of the world I have never visited, and cannot afford to travel to see.  It's a fun aspect of chess.com I really like.

ThrillerFan
PatrickHockstetter wrote:

Hi there, I for one am fed up of getting absolutely destroyed by people from third world countries who have nothing else to do but practice chess all day. I would like to only play people from the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia etc.

Is it possible that we can search opponents by nationality? Or, alternatively, can we have a feature to not play opponents from India, Indonesia, Malaysia etc?

 

What says you are getting beat by "third world country" players?

 

First off, India is not a third world country!

Second off, users here can set their flag.  What stops me, a person from the United States, from putting up a "Third World Country" flag, like Chad (a country in notrh-central Africa if memory serves me right), for example?  You think you are playing someone from Chad when really you are playing someone from the United States.  Only way you can figure that out is by IP address.  Admins probably have a way of getting my IP address when I log on, but I highly doubt you do!

Exztnz
PatrickHockstetter wrote:

Please don't accuse me of racism, it is a true fact that somebody whose only physical possession is a chess board and who has played 8hrs a day every day of their childhood is going to obliterate someone from a first world country who has to go to work and owns a TV etc.

If anything I am complimenting these players, I don't stand a chance against them. I'm not insulting anybody.

Yes of course there will be good players from developed countries, but overwhelmingly when I come across a player with an Indian flag I know I'm going to get mercilessly crushed, therefore I don't want to play Indian players any more, that's just my preference.

It would be a good feature to allow players to tick/untick certain flags they want to play, and it doesn't harm anyone to enable this feature.

It is indeed racism/elitism to assume people from "Third World" countries have nothing better to do than to play Chess whole day. I don't agree with the three-world terminology but since it's somewhat recognized in mainstream vocabulary, I must say it's unpleasant to separate countries based on a factor in which white nationalism appears to be the major component.

CandelaLight

"There's so many different worlds,

so many different suns.

And we have just one world,

but we live in different ones."

 

~ Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits) ~