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Has anyone else ever heard someone mispronounce these before?
















Morons























😕

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I've apparently been moronically calling him Al e kine (rhymes with wine) all my life. Supposedly its pronounced "AlCoHol" 🙂

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it's a-lek-in roughly


and I still call 1. e4 nf6 the al-a-kine.. haha.

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Originally posted by nimzo5
it's a-lek-in roughly


and I still call 1. e4 nf6 the al-a-kine.. haha.
I think you're pronouncing it right.
I used to say Naj-dorf, it's Nigh-dorf.
He is a small list of often mispronounced chess names.

http://www.chess-poster.com/english/notes_and_facts/pronounce_that_chess_name.htm

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for some reason I never had a problem with Najdorf - but pretty much any Russian name I am bound to mutilate-

Kaspa-rov vs Kaz-sparov etc.

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Originally posted by nimzo5
for some reason I never had a problem with Najdorf - but pretty much any Russian name I am bound to mutilate-

Kaspa-rov vs Kaz-sparov etc.
Big trick with Russian names - always roll your Rs after vowels

KORrrrCh-noi

KARrrr-pov

KaRrrr-YAK-in (Karjakin)

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Originally posted by atticus2
Big trick with Russian names - always roll your Rs after vowels

KORrrrCh-noi

KARrrr-pov

KaRrrr-YAK-in (Karjakin)
...Isnt karjakin the geezer from U.N.C.L.E.!....how about this one...Ian Nepomniachtchi Vs Ngoc Truongson Nguyen from the areoflot open 2010....im ok up to Ian but thats about it!

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Originally posted by PAWN RIOT
...Isnt karjakin the geezer from U.N.C.L.E.!....how about this one...Ian Nepomniachtchi Vs Ngoc Truongson Nguyen from the areoflot open 2010....im ok up to Ian but thats about it!
Most people I have met named Nguyen pronounced it "Win."

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Originally posted by Exuma
I've apparently been moronically calling him Al e kine (rhymes with wine) all my life. Supposedly its pronounced "AlCoHol" 🙂
Odd. I pronounce it the same way as GM Henrik Danielsen - "Ah - Leek - Kin".

Which is also wrong. "Al-YECK-in" is just. Strange.

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Originally posted by Tiwaking
Odd. I pronounce it the same way as GM Henrik Danielsen - "Ah - Leek - Kin".

Which is also wrong. "Al-YECK-in" is just. Strange.
Odd, I know a Daniel Henriksen. 😕

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I once met a woman, very old, who was a friend of Alekine, I called him Al-lekine emphasis Al. She was indignant, saying it was Al LEK in. I took a lekin on that one🙂

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Originally posted by ChessPraxis
Has anyone else ever heard someone mispronounce these before?
Quite often. It's much rarer that I see someone misspelling Alekhine as if it were a kind of metal...

Richard

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Originally posted by Shallow Blue
Quite often. It's much rarer that I see someone misspelling Alekhine as if it were a kind of metal...

Richard
...What?...as in alkaline trio!

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The nearest you can get (I think) to Alekhine [as spelt in English but not in other languages] is Alley-Achin' (or All'y-Achin'😉. The point is that the 'L' here is softened in Russian to make a 'y' sound immediately following it

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Originally posted by atticus2
The nearest you can get (I think) to Alekhine [as spelt in English but not in other languages] is Alley-Achin' (or All'y-Achin'😉. The point is that the 'L' here is softened in Russian to make a 'y' sound immediately following it
Alley Achin' is what happens when one is assaulted in an alleyway. 😕

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