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watch it on youtube
@fartacus saidI absolutely hate him.
Support the Lichess stream. πͺ Although I watch just about everything about chess on YouTube and I follow all of the drama ...so I encourage everyone to explore all of the fun chess stuff going on. Even this website that we play on!
The Candidates Tournament is a big deal even when we have quitters who are scared to lose the title eventually which always happened to the gr ...[text shortened]... its past and his ability to realize you had it but all the greats go down.
I absolutely hate him.
@fartacus saidJust seen an interesting take, in Russian sounds something like Korchni the "o" normally silent. Depending on whether you are German, French, Swiss etc the name can be spelt differently.
So an edit.
I grew up with books and it was written Kortchnoi.
Now the internet has it as Korchnoi.
I dunno π€·
@congruent saidOn top of that, Korchnoi hasn't been a Russian citizen for quite some time now,
Just seen an interesting take, in Russian sounds something like Korchni the "o" normally silent. Depending on whether you are German, French, Swiss etc the name can be spelt differently.
How do you spell 'Korchnoi'? The questions rears its ugly head from time to time on chess forums and blogs. At first, it seems a very straightforward matter: you just transcribe the lett ...[text shortened]... diately hear, from their intonation and other clues, that the speaker is in fact not Russian at all.