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Feb-12-10 | | acirce: Don't know if that's what you meant, but Georgian isn't written in Cyrillic. |
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Feb-12-10 | | Wild Bill: Cyrillic is the only other alphabet in which I have seen the young lady's name. In Cyrillic, her name looks like Ha3N (except that the Cyrillic i looks like the Roman N with the slant moving left bottom to right top instead of left top to right bottom). On the Russian language Wikipedia page for the article on the Nazi Party, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_P... , (click on the language on the list on the left side of the page that looks something like PycckNN, that's Russian in Russian, to get to the Russian language page), one can see that the word Nazi (Ha3N) is not used, but rather the Cyrillic letters for NSDAP are used where in English the word Nazi would be used. Now, Mr. Acirce, I believe you speak Russian better than I do (my apologies for the faint praise, since I really don't speak it at all), but the Russian use of NSDAP instead of Nazi as the shorthand name for the political party that ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945 would lead me to believe that it may not occur to many people in that part of the world that Ms. Paikidze's given name is, unfortunately, a word connoted by most people in our part of the world with brutal politics, wars of aggression and mass murder. However, the point is best made by Red October that the connotation is not the young lady's fault and she shouldn't be given a bad time about it. Her parents, no doubt, thought it a pretty name for their new baby girl 16 years ago. As for what might seem like a contratdiction -- if I don't speak Russian, how can I provide the information in the second paragraph? -- the answer is that 43 years ago, a bored American teenager who is now 58 spent an afternoon learning the Cyrillic alphabet. |
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Feb-12-10 | | acirce: Nazi or Nazism in Russian would be Наци (which IS used, but as you say, this girl's name is apparently spelled Нази) or Нацизм. I hope the Cyrillic characters are rendered correctly. But it still seems more interesting how it looks in the Georgian script...which I don't know anything about. I do agree with you and <Red October> regardless, of course. |
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Feb-13-10
 | | TheAlchemist: I would also guess that they are pronounced differently, the "z" in her name is probably closer to the z in "zebra". But of course I don't know for certain. |
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Feb-13-10
 | | alexmagnus: That is, z as in zebra. In Russian she is Нази. I also know how it looks in Georgian but have no idea how to post it here. |
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Feb-13-10 | | Don Cossacks: I love this girl!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped... |
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Feb-13-10 | | nummerzwei: This defies any explanation:
search "paikidze" |
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Feb-13-10 | | Billy Vaughan: LOL, looks like the Chessgames search picks up the "kid" in her name, though I haven't figured out why it hits that particular variation of the KID. |
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Feb-13-10
 | | alexmagnus: And why 1960. |
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Feb-13-10
 | | alexmagnus: already a "paikid" search leads to those four games. |
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Feb-13-10
 | | alexmagnus: Actually, whatever you write in front of "kid", you get those 4 games. |
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Feb-14-10 | | Red October: <Wild Bill> your old avtaar is free again, grab it quick!!! |
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Feb-14-10 | | SamAtoms1980: <Don Cossacks: I love this girl!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped... > Very nice picture.
Hey, BIDMONFA! This cat belongs in your catalog. Where the #$%& are you?!? :-) |
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Feb-14-10
 | | chancho: That cat you can reach here:
http://www.bidmonfa.com/ |
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Feb-24-10 | | humangraymatter: She plays really strong.Stronger than her current rating suggests. |
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Feb-27-10
 | | Tabanus: She had a 2366 performance in the Angora team tournament which ended yesterday: http://angora.tsf.org.tr/component/... |
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Mar-02-10 | | BIDMONFA: Nazi Paikidze PAIKIDZE, Nazi
http://www.bidmonfa.com/paikidze_na...
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Mar-02-10 | | whiteshark: <gus inn> No.
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... |
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Mar-02-10 | | gus inn: <whiteshark> Thanks. |
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Mar-09-10 | | stanleys: http://russiachess.org/images/stori... http://russiachess.org/images/stori... |
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Mar-09-10
 | | Open Defence: very smart and pretty, all the best in your games |
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Jun-02-10 | | wanabe2000: It seems that Nazi Paikidze has won the Moscow Women's Chess Championship with a score of 7.5/9. I don't understand Russian but here is the spelling of her name on the tournament website. Нази Пайкидз&. |
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Jun-02-10
 | | Tabanus: <wanabe2000> She won the Moscow Open section C (Woman's section) in February: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr299... |
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Jun-02-10 | | DarthStapler: I keep submitting GOTD puns based on this player's name and they keep getting rejected |
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Jun-03-10
 | | Phony Benoni: Well, there's only so much you can do with <Paikidze>. |
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