Report chess.com for the Catalonia, Basque and Galicia flags

This is a serious issue. Why you dont have flags of California, Idaho or Essex but you do of the Spanish autonomies??? WTF is that? I am goingto report chess.com till this issue is fixed.

Report it? To whom?

Be advised, if reported, it would go on your permanent record!

Ha!

También he visto banderas de Canarias, para mi sorpresa. Ninguna de esas regiones de España está reconocida internacionalmente.

"I am going to report chess.com till this issue is fixed."

That's hilarious! Who are you going to report them too? Is there an International Society for People Who Love to Complain?

Freedom for Catalonia. Thanks

There are lots of states that have limited recognition, and I'm sure it's a political issue that chesscom has no desire to get into. States like Northern Turkey, Palestine, Israel, the Sahrawi Republic, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Kosovo, Artsakh... and more.

I'm sure the people at chesscom don't really care. Someone probably just saw a list of countries somewhere and grabbed all of the flags from it. Some guy eating a few cookies who couldn't tell you the difference between Slovakia and Slovenia did this in a few minutes. They aren't taking sides in any political dispute.

It's called twitter

Modern chess originated in Catalonia c.1475

Use your profile picture as a flag if you want.

Depends upon what you mean by modern. The current near universally accepted rules are Staunton's from 1860 which included white moved first, stalemate was a draw, and pawns could capture en passant. Of course the 50 move rule was added in the late 1920s, so maybe it's that.

The 50 move rule dates to the 19th century, but showed some inconsistency in definition. Here's an historical inquiry into its development: http://chessskill.blogspot.com/2016/06/max-judds-draw-claim.html 

The term "modern chess" usually refers to when the queen and bishop could move as they do today, and the pawn could move two squares. Castling and en passant took another century to develop.

But, yes, tournament rules that we know today developed from Staunton and as late as the early twentieth century. FIDE even modified the 50 move rule briefly after tablebases showed some longer forced mates.

As for the international flag...

I'm just being pedantic. Everyone knows that chess was invented by a little old lady from Novgorod playing with her Matryoshka dolls.

Your report is a blunder.

So is your flair!

I think he means that Catalonia is part of Spain, but wants to be its own country, and California was once its own country… that’s the connection I drew. 

Barca!