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Wijk aan Zee

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Topov looks completely busted against Karjakin.

Shirov's game is weird, I don't know what's happening.

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Originally posted by zebano
Where are you getting the updates from? and what has happened to Shirov lately?

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Ponomariov - M. Carlsen1-0
V. Anand - L. Aronian½-½
from the official site coruschess.com

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I think everybody should watch the movies of the post mortems and press conferences at chessvibes.com
really excellen stuff

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4 round, Anand- Carlsen draw 1/2-1/2

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Originally posted by Talem16
4 round, Anand- Carlsen draw 1/2-1/2
I wonder abut that one. It looks like a short GM draw from what I've seen, but given the way Carlsen is playing, might Anand not have played on for the the full point?

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here is round 4
A. Motylev - L. Aronian ½-½
M. Carlsen - V. Anand ½-½
P. Svidler - R. Ponomariov ½-½
V. Kramnik - D. Navara ½-½
T. Radjabov - S. Tiviakov 1-0
V. Topalov - A. Shirov 1-0
L. van Wely - S. Karjakin ½-½

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It is pronounced (I am dutch) waik ahn (a long aa) zay. the ij sounds like the i in the word 'dike'.

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Originally posted by Garnoth
It is pronounced (I am dutch) waik ahn (a long aa) zay. the ij sounds like the i in the word 'dike'.
That seems pretty close to what I've heard from a couple of guys from the Puget Sound area of Washington State: Yasser Seirawan and John Donaldson.

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Originally posted by Wulebgr
That seems pretty close to what I've heard from a couple of guys from the Puget Sound area of Washington State: Yasser Seirawan and John Donaldson.
A bit earlier you said: "vik on zay (long i) is Yasser's pronunciation"
Sounds contradictory. Maybe I should have a listen to one of the archived audio comments and hear for myself how he pronounces it, now that I have ducats. 🙂

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Originally posted by Nordlys
A bit earlier you said: "vik on zay (long i) is Yasser's pronunciation"
Sounds contradictory. Maybe I should have a listen to one of the archived audio comments and hear for myself how he pronounces it, now that I have ducats. 🙂
A long i is pronounced as the letter i, as in dike or ice. So vik (long i) or waik sound the same to me, unless I'm wrong about the w. I've been led to believe the Dutch w is pronounced as the German, which in English is as a v.

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Originally posted by Wulebgr
A long i is pronounced as the letter i, as in dike or ice. So vik (long i) or waik sound the same to me, unless I'm wrong about the w. I've been led to believe the Dutch w is pronounced as the German, which in English is as a v.
Ah, okay. I was assuming that when you wrote "vik", you were thinking of something like "vick", as I can't think of any example of an English word ending with "i" followed by a consonant where the "i" is pronounced like in "dike". You are correct about the "w".

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Originally posted by Nordlys
Ah, okay. I was assuming that when you wrote "vik", you were thinking of something like "vick", as I can't think of any example of an English word ending with "i" followed by a consonant where the "i" is pronounced like in "dike". You are correct about the "w".
I suppose I could have written vike, as in dyke. 😛😕😉

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Originally posted by Wulebgr
I suppose I could have written vike, as in dyke. 😛😕😉
Damn!

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Originally posted by Diet Coke
Damn!
Dikes and dams hold water; dykes don't always do so.

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Originally posted by Wulebgr
I suppose I could have written vike, as in dyke. 😛😕😉
Exactlij. Or vyke, as in dike.