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ER-vuh...although I still have a nostalgic pang for the days when I knew him as You-ey. I once saw him in the flesh btw (the day he visited Paul Masson 1976 as president of FIDE).
Try Tal.
In cyrillic its got that little character after the "l."
I heard Shirov say his name years ago in a vid, and it was clearly Tal-yuh.
Since they're both Latvian I figured I was getting the down-home poop.
I will just keep saying "Tal" though; for the same reasons I don't say fee-an-ketto.
I was just watching the movie A Matter of Life and Death, and they said AL-ekheen. Which made me snicker a bit.
On the other hand, that movie actually did mention Alekhine...along with Philidor. It even had a copy of Al's 1924-37 games collection on screen for a couple seconds (holy crap!).
I remember that flick--it was (is?) on hulu even.
Very nice film with some solid chess references.
Highly recommended. Love the Raymond Massey character!
I'm afraid we'll have to apologize for him to all our friends across the pond though...
In Tal's name (Таль) the little character after the l makes the l "soft." There's no sound after the l, except in some inflected forms of the name.
Alekhine's name is actually pronounced a-LYE-kheen.
Don't know enough Dutch to speak to Euwe though
unityjeauxx wrote:
In Tal's name (Таль) the little character after the l makes the l "soft." There's no sound after the l, except in some inflected forms of the name.
FWIW, that Tal-yuh was in the middle of an english sentence. I'm sure I don't know what's going on linguistically!
unityjeauxx wrote:
Alekhine's name is actually pronounced a-LYE-kheen.
Funny, everyone I've ever heard pronounces it Al-YEK-in.
Godspawn wrote:
AndyClifton wrote:
ER-vuh...although I still have a nostalgic pang for the days when I knew him as You-ey. I once saw him in the flesh btw (the day he visited Paul Masson 1976 as president of FIDE).
What a coincidence Andy...i saw him and Spassky at Paul Masson in '79.
Wow, Spassky was there too?! That must've be tres cool! 
yup its al-YEK-in. the cyrillic letter "u" or a backwards N only makes the "ee" sound when it is the stressed syllable
RichardMAbrams wrote:
What is the pronounciation of Euwe?
If it were German, it would be "Oy-ve", but the Dutch pronounce the "Oy"-part like the "ea" in "early".
bigryoung wrote:
yup its al-YEK-in. the cyrillic letter "u" or a backwards N only makes the "ee" sound when it is the stressed syllable
и never changes under stress... only я, о, and и.
Sorry about the correction, couldn't resist. I was a russian language nerd far before I was a chess nerd to be honest.
yes ive seen the film a few times but only saw the chess book (alekhines best games) last time. any other chess references we have all missed?
is it prononced more like huber. its all to do with the hyphen above the middle of his name..
Gives a whole new meaning to the song "Hey You".
"She Loves Euwe"
What is the pronounciation of Euwe?