Author: Mihaly Szalai
Date: 14:31:09 07/01/04
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On July 01, 2004 at 11:39:36, Roy Eassa wrote: >On July 01, 2004 at 11:02:40, Drexel,Michael wrote: > >>On July 01, 2004 at 10:53:20, Roy Eassa wrote: >> >>>Chess trivia question: >>> >>>Prior to 2000's Anand-Shirov match, when was the last time that a (adult male) >>>world chess championship match was played in which NEITHER player had the letter >>>'k' in his last name? >> >>Euwe-Aljechin :) >> >>or Steinitz-Tschigorin > >Yes, if you spell his name "Alekhine" (as most books and articles written in >English do), than you eliminate his matches and then you have to go back to the >19th century -- well over 100 years -- before you find a match without a 'k'. > >Thank you KramniK, Khalifman, Kasparov, SpassKy, Karpov, Korchnoi, BotvinniK, >AleKhine, JanowsKi and LasKer (but not ZuKertort). This is a matter of transliteration of Russian names. Alekhine and Khalifman have no K letter in their names. Actually Alyohin(!) and Halifman. (Our Russian friends will correct me.) Thanks Mihaly
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