North Korea Player?

Quick question regarding the flag thumbnail that represents a player's location.

Is it based on IP address? or can anyone fake it somehow? because a lot of people said that you can't play against someone from North Korea and yet I played with this guy a little while ago.

https://www.chess.com/member/30011650

That's very easy to test. In my profile settings page I changed my country to North Korea, and the flag thumbnail is replaced immediately. 

Oh, interesting. I see, thank you.

I am using North Korean flag because I hate nationalities. Since I couldn't find a way to play the game without a flag, I picked North Korean flag, because I know no North Korean is able to play this game. And it looks funny too in my view.

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I played a guy with the North Korean flag and I asked him that. He said he worked at an embassy there.  True or not, who knows ?

Who remembers the guy who claimed to be the gay hairdresser for Chairman Kim?

Not as much as we are led to believe my brother!

I think it's configurable 

It’s configurable. It detects ip when you first create your account. (Friend was using a vpn set to america and so he had an account defaultly set to america). But you can manually change your flag in settings.

North Korea W

mb that was me

Kim Jong Un you don't fool us, we know it's you.

You can change your flag in settings

I live in the US.

I am not in the European Union. But I still have the flag bc I’m from there

You can choose flags. Why North Korea is there, I have no idea.

Use the international flag.

I am also North korean