Allow me to restrict opponents to Americans only!

The flags on here are self chosen. Filtering on that would be superficial at best. The site is unlikely to add such a feature.

There is no motivation for an iranian to choose a u.s. flag or for people to pretend to be from the u.s. in general. If you really wanted, you could add a premium membership feature where you can restrict your opponents to your country of origin, and country of origin is determined by billing address on the credit card you use to pay for membership.

While that may be possible, for premium accounts, it is very unlikely to happen.

Why not? It means more $$$ for chess.com people who will pay money to play only americans!

Iran may be at odds with the US, but Iranians are good people just as Americans are good people.  I, for one, would rather see chess used as a bridge between two countries or two cultures than as something to mutually exclude each other.  

Perhaps this topic would receive more views and therefore more support if it were moved back to the "general chess discussion" forum, rather than this significantly less popular forum.

If anyone ever thought chess made you smarter, this thread is your refutation.

I agree with batgirl. The US and Iranian governments might be at odds with one another, but the people are not. However, even according to your logic, if you feel Iran is an "enemy" of your country, you should be playing (and beating) all the Iranians you can get. After all, chess is war and your flag represents your country. A great American patriot like you should be able to defeat all challengers. Isn't that what Bobby Fischer did when Henry Kissinger called on him to be a patriot and fight the Russians?

You should be ashamed.

OP account open 1 day. 

Ah well spotted CMXI.  Obviously OP is just a troll.

Or, maybe, this thread is not very popular because nobody cares about your strange request?

learn to love what youve been told to hate mate , it gives you a far more balance viewpoint  

Iran is one of civilisations birthplaces  yours is but a relatively new nation in contrast 300 years but Iran is millennia old  and deserves respect 

Iran people chant death to America. Not the government. The people.

So what the hell are you 2 deluded liars trying to say "but the Iranians people are really nice!!"

Yeah they are nice to their fellow [that is not appropriate -- VP]

"2 deluded liars"

Deluded infers one believes something probably not true to be true.... hence the delusion

Liar infers one knows the truth but knowingly expresses a fallacy.

A deluded liar would be a paradox. 

In my experience it's far better to be paradoxical than a xenophobic. 

I agree100% what batgirl,jjupiter6 and ANOKI1 wrote

hey batgirl, 'deluded liar' is more an oxymoron than a paradox. check it out, the difference is subtle and interesting.

actually looking at it again i'm not sure it's either.

interested to know if the group who post that they'd prefer to play only americans, have any other ideas about grouping opponents based on other aspects beyond their control, or very difficult to change.

100% true. Every country has its good and bad people...