1. Standard memberChessPraxis
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    30 Dec '10 03:20
    Has anyone else ever heard someone mispronounce these before?
















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  2. Standard memberExuma
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    30 Dec '10 04:16
    I've apparently been moronically calling him Al e kine (rhymes with wine) all my life. Supposedly its pronounced "AlCoHol" πŸ™‚
  3. Standard membernimzo5
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    30 Dec '10 16:14
    it's a-lek-in roughly


    and I still call 1. e4 nf6 the al-a-kine.. haha.
  4. Standard memberChessPraxis
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    30 Dec '10 16:26
    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
  5. Standard membernimzo5
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    30 Dec '10 17:24
    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.
  6. Standard memberatticus2
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    30 Dec '10 17:52
    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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    30 Dec '10 18:36
    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!
  8. Standard memberChessPraxis
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    30 Dec '10 19:09
    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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    30 Dec '10 19:20
    Originally posted by Exuma
    I've apparently been moronically calling him Al e kine (rhymes with wine) all my life. Supposedly its pronounced "AlCoHol" πŸ™‚
    Odd. I pronounce it the same way as GM Henrik Danielsen - "Ah - Leek - Kin".

    Which is also wrong. "Al-YECK-in" is just. Strange.
  10. Standard memberChessPraxis
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    30 Dec '10 19:57
    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. πŸ˜•
  11. Subscribersonhouse
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    30 Dec '10 20:38
    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 oneπŸ™‚
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    30 Dec '10 20:52
    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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    30 Dec '10 21:27
    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!
  14. Standard memberatticus2
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    30 Dec '10 21:55
    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'πŸ˜‰. The point is that the 'L' here is softened in Russian to make a 'y' sound immediately following it
  15. Standard memberChessPraxis
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    31 Dec '10 01:55
    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'πŸ˜‰. 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. πŸ˜•
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