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Crazy88s

Is there a way of choosing the country of origin of your opponent in live chess?  Its not prejudice, I just think it would be fun to be able to randomly choose who I want to play from different continents and countries.  

notmtwain
Crazy88s wrote:

Is there a way of choosing the country of origin of your opponent in live chess?  Its not prejudice, I just think it would be fun to be able to randomly choose who I want to play from different continents and countries.  

No, but if you play a lot of correspondence tournaments, you will see the widest variety of origins. I think this happens because people play at all hours of the day around the world while live chess tends to draw players from the same hemispheres.

Bobcat

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No, but the nurse will see you now.

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in a Country some where else.

baddogno
T_Llewellyn wrote:

I would love this feature, i love to just play my fellow countrymen sometimes. 

Looks like dozens of active clubs based in the Netherlands.  Maybe join one or two?

 

Connect>Clubs and then choose Netherlands for country and do a search...

stuckinwronguniverse

yeah , they should put at least play within your country feature ..i would have been great plateform to make friend as well as create a coummmninty 

 

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Ananyaplayer1

there should be a button were you can choose which country you want you're opennet to be from and simply play with that person from that country 

Ananyaplayer1
NervesofButter wrote:
Ananyaplayer1 wrote:

there should be a button were you can choose which country you want you're opennet to be from and simply play with that person from that country 

People can choose whatever flag they want regardless of what country they are from or in.

I know but what if we want to play with someone from a certain country

Ananyaplayer1
NervesofButter wrote:
Ananyaplayer1 wrote:
NervesofButter wrote:
Ananyaplayer1 wrote:

there should be a button were you can choose which country you want you're opennet to be from and simply play with that person from that country 

People can choose whatever flag they want regardless of what country they are from or in.

I know but what if we want to play with someone from a certain country

I hear what you are saying but this is the internet.  As i said before anyone here can post a flag from any country they want regardless of what country they are from of where they live.  You can always ask an opponent: "Are you from <insert country here>?"  But that does not mean they are actually from that country.  You just dont know.

yeah but they can live there

Ananyaplayer1
NervesofButter wrote:
Ananyaplayer1 wrote:
NervesofButter wrote:
Ananyaplayer1 wrote:
NervesofButter wrote:
Ananyaplayer1 wrote:

there should be a button were you can choose which country you want you're opennet to be from and simply play with that person from that country 

People can choose whatever flag they want regardless of what country they are from or in.

I know but what if we want to play with someone from a certain country

I hear what you are saying but this is the internet.  As i said before anyone here can post a flag from any country they want regardless of what country they are from of where they live.  You can always ask an opponent: "Are you from <insert country here>?"  But that does not mean they are actually from that country.  You just dont know.

yeah but they can live there

Yep it comes down to faith.

ok

monkey-armory
Crazy88s wrote:

Is there a way of choosing the country of origin of your opponent in live chess?  Its not prejudice, I just think it would be fun to be able to randomly choose who I want to play from different continents and countries.  

This may be good but it would also have problems as people trying to play someone from say the Aland islands would have few options other than nerves that would lead to people making forums titled new function pick a country does not work.

Ananyaplayer1
Crazy88s wrote:

Is there a way of choosing the country of origin of your opponent in live chess?  Its not prejudice, I just think it would be fun to be able to randomly choose who I want to play from different continents and countries.  

yes this is a good idea

Camilsmith
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monkey-armory

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NoahA73

The "choose a country" feature would help with passport completion too.

jimlargon
NoahA73 wrote:

The "choose a country" feature would help with passport completion too.

Agree. It seems too hard to have a match with ppl from certain countries….

MarioParty4
NoahA73 wrote:

The "choose a country" feature would help with passport completion too.

Exactly. The only reason I can think of why this isn't in Beta is because it would remove any sense of challenge with passports.

NoahA73

True.

RedFastMath

I have 170 or so passports I think nm 132

Mystical-Man
NoahA73 wrote:

The "choose a country" feature would help with passport completion too.

That just removes all the fun and challenge from passport completion.