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rooperi

Hmmm, Guioco Rotto, I've had a few of those

bresando

Never put too much faith in google translator :) In a chess-related context, busted is certainly not translated as "rotto" (which equates to "broken").

I'm not sure about an exact equivalent of busted. In my mind i translate it as "spacciato", as in "il nero è spacciato" ("black is busted"). Spacciato more or less means "hopeless".

bronsteinitz

Thank you Bresando, could you help us with the other terms also?

bronsteinitz

Quite like "il nero e spacciato"

bronsteinitz

Il bianco e spacciato

Chessking47
johnmusacha wrote:

My understanding is piano most closely means "quiet" or "soft" in English.

I play piano and it means "quiet" or "soft". 

I just pronounce it as if it was Guoco?

bronsteinitz

Best like GIOCCO

rooperi

OK, no that's settled, how do you pronounce the piano bit?

Cearly not like the musical instrument, maybe pee-ah-no. or peeyahno?

Berder
Berder wrote:

I think it also bears mentioning that "piano" is probably not pronounced like a piano the instrument.  It would be "PEE-ah-no" if it's the Spanish pronunciation.

rooperi

Ah, when all else fails, read the instructions

bronsteinitz

So Rooperi, when there is again no food next saturday, we all cry out " festa è rotto!"

PiffPaffPuff

fun fact, Heekaaruu pronounces it 'Gucci Piano'. 
https://youtu.be/j-GN6B4f21g?t=242Can't wait for someone to develop the Louis Vuitton opening that will cost a lot of material for activity and will still fall apart a few moves later.

eeeechesss9
its italian
Ziggy_Zugzwang

According to Soltis on a book of the opening it is pronounced "joke-o" piano...