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Subject: Re: The most misspelled names in computer chess?

Author: Steffen Jakob

Date: 11:39:18 04/04/01

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On April 04, 2001 at 08:58:54, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On April 04, 2001 at 07:06:32, Jari Huikari wrote:
>
>>On April 03, 2001 at 07:14:24, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>
>>>Must be Hiracs & Golaith :-)
>>
>>I have often seen Firtz and Frtiz.
>>
>>If there were more polish names...
>>
>>					Jari
>
>In computerchess my name hardly gets misspelled, but in netherlands
>they write everywhere my name as
>  'diepenveen' instead of 'diepeveen'.
>
>For some weird reason majority of dutchman enhances my name,
>despite that aroudn this town about 3000 people live called DIEPEVEEN
>and only 3 families live called DIEPENVEEN :)
>
>So in general a compliment on spelling in computerchess scene!

I think I have read "Vincent van Diepeveen" in a german forum... Germans tend to
think that all dutchmen have a "van" in front of their last name. :-)

Greetings,
Steffen.



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