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Dec-29-04
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| Willem Wallekers: I don't recall ever seeing XH in English for that sound.
Usually it's KH.
Russian uses an X for it.
sneaky pete: you're Dutch, aren't you?
Bedoeld wordt de Nederlandse g of ch, of iets wat daar op lijkt. |
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Dec-29-04
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| vonKrolock: In French, the existence of two kinds of 'H' - called resp. 'aspirated' and 'mute' - is something that can provoke some confusion, because people that speaks French today simply NEVER pronounces a gutural 'h' in their OWN words (NOTE so i'm not saying that a French will not pronounce an KH as in Khalifman if it's the case!) - but EVERYONE that learn this language shall know which words have an aspirated and which have a not-aspirated H - because of the form that, say, an article or other word will be spelled and pronounced before an H! A little sample: You have L'HEURE (non-aspired or mute: “leur”), but LE HÊTRE (aspirated: “le-etr”): I tried to discover a pattern for this rule (not a law; there's no law - in a mathematical or even a legal sense - in this subject)
And found one that can be applied in a reasonable way: Words from the Latin or Greek amount usually have a mute H, words from the other pile (Gaulois, ancient Franc, Germanic etc) usually have an aspirate H (that's not so an inutile hint - i know that even the native French speakers find difficult to distinguish between the both 'H' – this provokes, at least, some troubles for students and for participants in live TV shows of the type “Be A Millionaire” where You have to answer quickly some silly questions to earn a prize). Well, so the Russians also – they have a particular way of pronouncing their OWN words – even if those are words that came, centuries ago, from the common classic treasure – like GEROI for hero, GARMONIKA for concertina, GIPOTEZA for hypothesis, GORIZONT for horizont, etc etc – we have here a phenomenon, a tendency: but, as Russian is primarilly a comunication tool for Russians – therefore – what we can, is trying to understand how and why – a little gipothesis: something to do whith the garmonical rhythm that is cherished by the Russian ears?! EPILOGUE: As a little demonstration that we have in the realm of the illogical: · *In French we have LE HÉROS - hero , and L’HÉROÏNE – heroine (resp. aspirated and mute!) * In Russian we have GARRY Truman, but KHIROCIMA for Hiroshima !! |
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Dec-29-04
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| sneaky pete: <Willem Wallekers> Yes, I am and I know. I was just amazed at PP's invention about the transciption of the Cyrillic X into XH in English. KH is bad enough, Xod knows how native English speakers pronounce that. Very unlikely it sounds like the Achlaut in Xodverd@#$%. |
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Jan-02-05
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| Benzol: Mikhail N. Gurevich
Born 22nd February 1959
An IM in 1985 he was USSR Champion (after playoff and tie-break) in the same year. |
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| Mar-29-05 |
| cade: http://www.neckar-open.de/9no/live/...
Would you believe that this game gave Gurevich the tournament win on tie-breaks? Incredible.... I think Thomas must have resigned in pure frustration. |
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Mar-29-05
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| Appaz: LOL!
Great fighting from Gurevich.
And still I see people on <cg.com> go on about how you offend your opponent when playing with a piece down. I guess those folks are typical quitters. |
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| May-16-05 |
| WTHarvey: Here are some diagrams of crucial positions in Mikhail's games: http://www.wtharvey.com/gure.html |
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| Dec-10-05 |
| nikolajewitsch: Does anyone know why this guy is suddenly playing for Turkey? He is listed as a turkish player on FIDE siite.....he was born in the USSR, played for Belgium for a long time, why now turkey??? |
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| Dec-10-05 |
| aw1988: I'm still trying to figure out what makes him look so much like Kasparov... |
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Dec-10-05
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| KingG: <aw1988> You think he look like Kasparov? This guy looks like Kasparov: Dimitri Gurevich. |
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| Dec-10-05 |
| aw1988: Oh, damn it. I mixed them up. Yes, that one. |
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Dec-10-05
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| KingG: By the way does anyone know if they are related? |
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| Jan-09-06 |
| WTHarvey: Mikhail has been selected by FIDE as one of 16 to participate in the 2007 World Championship qualification matches: http://www.fide.com/news.asp?id=896 Imo, Mikhail looks a little like Groucho Marx. |
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| Mar-27-06 |
| shor: i'm a native russian, and Harry Truman as pronounced in English, is pronounced as Garry Truman in Russian. |
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| Mar-28-06 |
| stanleys: Congratulations for becoming a champion of Turkey! |
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| Mar-28-06 |
| BIDMONFA: Mikhail Gurevich GUREVICH, Mikhail
http://www.bidmonfa.com/gurevich_mi...
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| Apr-06-06 |
| Bobak Zahmat: <WTHarvey: Mikhail has been selected by FIDE as one of 16 to participate in the 2007 World Championship qualification matches: http://www.fide.com/news.asp?id=896
Imo, Mikhail looks a little like Groucho Marx.> He hasn't been selected, he earned this by playing in the FIDE World Cup (2005). He finished there 8th by the way. |
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| Apr-06-06 |
| Bobak Zahmat: Gurevich is probably one of the candidates to win the European championsship. |
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| May-30-07 |
| sheaf: <le héros> --<les héros> |
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Aug-08-07
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| ahmadov: Gurevich becomes one of the leaders of Arctic Chess Challenge by winning the surprise participant Katarzyna Toma from Poland... |
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Sep-09-07
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| Karpova: He won the 6th Istanbul Chess Festival 2007 with 8/9
http://istfest2007.tsf.org.tr/index... 7.5 points scored:
Levan Pantsulaia, Eldar Gasanov, Gadir Guseinov, Giorgi Margvelashvili, Levan Aroshidze, Konstantine Shanava, Aman Passhikian, Yrina Zakurdiyeva, David Arutinian, Davit Lomsadze and Eltaj Safarly It would be nice to have the games included in the database. |
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| Feb-22-08 |
| jmi: One of my favourite French players of modern times is the player of the day! Thank you, cg! |
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Feb-22-08
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| HolyKnight: Wow maybe if I get started I can get a 2600 rating sincc Gurevich is a year younger than me. |
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| Mar-17-08 |
| russep: What's the next tournament he will be playing in? |
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Apr-23-08
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| Knight13: Gurevich is getting out of 2600s soon. |
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