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Cystem_Phailure wrote:
ivandh wrote:  You can see that I have dedicated my location bar to the simple message that two different countries are different.

I think identifying Switzerland got more difficult for Americans raised in the Internet age.  Let's see, Switzerland-- domain might be .sw , right?  Swaiziland?  Really?  Then what's Sweden?  Ah, .se .  OK, understandable.  Well, since Switzerland is SUI in the Olympics, they must be .su .  The Soviet Union is .su?  It doesn't even exist anymore!  OK, I give up.  What's Switzerland? .ch ????  I thought that was China . . . 


.ch is for Confederatio Helvetica, the official Latin name of Switzerland (god knows why they use latin).

whitebull wrote:
whitebull wrote:

Why do so many persons not reveal the city in which they live in their chess.com profile?

Are they afraid, ashamed of where they live, famous, super rich, what?


Just to remind you of the question on the table.


Just to remind you of which website you are on.

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mohandisusa wrote:

maybe they are ashamed of their country which they belong or...


That's what I was wondering . . . . 

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ivandh wrote:
Cystem_Phailure wrote:
ivandh wrote:  You can see that I have dedicated my location bar to the simple message that two different countries are different.

I think identifying Switzerland got more difficult for Americans raised in the Internet age.  Let's see, Switzerland-- domain might be .sw , right?  Swaiziland?  Really?  Then what's Sweden?  Ah, .se .  OK, understandable.  Well, since Switzerland is SUI in the Olympics, they must be .su .  The Soviet Union is .su?  It doesn't even exist anymore!  OK, I give up.  What's Switzerland? .ch ????  I thought that was China . . . 


.ch is for Confederatio Helvetica, the official Latin name of Switzerland (god knows why they use latin).

whitebull wrote:
whitebull wrote:

Why do so many persons not reveal the city in which they live in their chess.com profile?

Are they afraid, ashamed of where they live, famous, super rich, what?


Just to remind you of the question on the table.


 

Just to remind you of which website you are on.


Duh.

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I'm proud to live in San Francisco.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHrZNjWJfK0