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chessmateguitarists

As an Italian, I can accept that the new "Roman Empire" robots have the Italian flag. Officially Italy was founded in 1861, so Cesare and the others were not Italians, they were Romans. But I can't accept that Chess.com considers Cleopatra to be Italian. She was Egyptian from the Ptolemaic dynasty, therefore of Greek origin. This is a blunder...

Jahtreezy

They should give Cleopatra a modern Macedonian flag next, just to delight our classical historians. wink

OK_K661
The chessboard and chess piece changes were great tho
Tyler_Waldrop
I am also a Italian and I 100% agree with you they should not have the Italian flag
Clapback72

Cleopatra has just been updated with an Egyptian flag

Discipulus05

As a Roman history nerd, it bothers me even more that they called Julius Caesar an emperor!! The empire had yet to even begin!! (It's hard for me to navigate the forums on my phone, I'm sure someone has already pointed this out). His highest office was dictator, and that only lasted a year or so before his death.

ba1andar

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llama_l

It's weird to make mistakes like this... why not spend 5 seconds Googling? Italy didn't exist 2000 years ago and if you asked 100 people on the street to name 1 thing about Cleopatra, the most common answer would probably be "queen of Egypt" meh