Uhh, that seems weird. I just choose to not show my country.
"International" means What?
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Hi again,
Wanmokewan certainly seems unaware: he shows the flag of Israel not the international icon. Why also is that little x in a circle (inactive?) shown. Are there no active internationals to clear up this matter?
Anyone can put any flag they want next to their name. Some people change theirs regularly because they're flaky.
A1Rajjpuut wrote:
"Hi!" I play online chess usually at three days per move and also live games once in awhile. I thought "Internationals" here at Chess.com were either a)"one-worlders" who preferred a single huge government controlled by the United Nations perhaps to all the individual nations or b) people with a beef with their country's present government.
Most recently I was told by an acquaintance claiming to have been "kicked off" this chess site for vague reasons that the term "International" we see instead of showing a flag icon for a specific nation . . . actually means "Communist." Could that actually be true? I ask because in my live games at 15/10 I've seen a huge jump in the number and frequency of 60-second automatic-aborts I face without my opponent making a single move: all this occurring within say the last 15-16 months and with "Internationals" making up the lion's percentage of the automatic-aborters. This could be relevant since on an online chat elsewhere I responded to a Venezuelan advocate of President Maduro by reminding him in my best Spanish that in the 100 years from 1917 with its two (Menshevik and Bolshevik) revolts in Russia to 2015 -- conservative statistics say that a minimum of 132 million democides (peacetime deaths of a nation's citizens by the regime in power usually from incompetence as in the case of famines or mismanaged disasters; or by political retribution . . . occurred in 39 communist nations. Could all these auto-aborts be caused by that long ago chat reference? I'm not close to Norbert but we do play pool and chess and discuss politics during games. I'd like some Internationals to clear up the matter for me if they could. Thanks.
It means get stuffed
Oh-oh, "Get Stuffed" is a common English idiom used frequently by those special progressives involved in Extreme militant environmentalism -- people known as "Watermelons" according to some of my friends in Europe (Green on the outside; RED on the inside). Thanks for resolving my curiosity for me. Won't doubt Norbert again.
I just don't want to have anything in common with my country.
its a big leap of the imagination you got there , to think someone using the international flag = someone who desires a one world govt , but leap away if that is your wish
I picked "international" because the the Jolly Roger wasn't available.
"Hi!" I play online chess usually at three days per move and also live games once in awhile. I thought "Internationals" here at Chess.com were either a)"one-worlders" who preferred a single huge government controlled by the United Nations perhaps to all the individual nations or b) people with a beef with their country's present government.
Most recently I was told by an acquaintance claiming to have been "kicked off" this chess site for vague reasons that the term "International" we see instead of showing a flag icon for a specific nation . . . actually means "Communist." Could that actually be true? I ask because in my live games at 15/10 I've seen a huge jump in the number and frequency of 60-second automatic-aborts I face without my opponent making a single move: all this occurring within say the last 15-16 months and with "Internationals" making up the lion's percentage of the automatic-aborters. This could be relevant since on an online chat elsewhere I responded to a Venezuelan advocate of President Maduro by reminding him in my best Spanish that in the 100 years from 1917 with its two (Menshevik and Bolshevik) revolts in Russia to 2015 -- conservative statistics say that a minimum of 132 million democides (peacetime deaths of a nation's citizens by the regime in power usually from incompetence as in the case of famines or mismanaged disasters; or by political retribution . . .) occurred in 39 communist nations. Could all these auto-aborts be caused by that long ago chat reference? I'm not close to Norbert but we do play pool and chess and discuss politics during games. I'd like some Internationals to clear up the matter for me if they could. Thanks.