Originally posted by der schwarze RitterHonorable mention? Some of the chess players were used to break military codes in World War Two.
For your information: Morphy was a lawyer (though he never practiced law); Tarrasch was a trained medical doctor; Alekhine graduated from the Sorbonne (either law or philosophy); Max Euwe was a mathematician, Reuben Fine was a psychologist; Reshevsky was an accountant, Taimanov was a concert pianist; Smyslov had a pretty good singing voice (opera ...[text shortened]... tinues to make a mark in the world of politics and writes regularly for the Wall Street Journal.
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Originally posted by CrawlIceMay-01-07 mannetje: I hope some of you know how to pronounce , witch is French ("two"😉. Just remove the "d" from deux and it says "eu" (Dutch). The second part of the name is "we". The "w" can be pronouced like the English "w". The last part of the name is "e", wich is something like the second a in american.
Speaking of Max Euwe, does anyone know how his name was pronounced?
1. (without the "d" )
2. , the English way
3. The second a in "american".
This should take about half a second.
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