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Subject: Re: Strange Pronunciations In Chess Nomenclature (Giuoco Piano, Max Euwe

Author: Alessandro Scotti

Date: 11:40:03 08/17/04

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On August 17, 2004 at 10:09:01, Vincent Lejeune wrote:

>a lot more here :
>
>http://www.chess-poster.com/english/notes_and_facts/pronounce_that_chess_name.htm

However, "Giuoco" is pronounced JUU-AW-KOE (where the final O is short) and
JOKE-O, which is the "modern" version, is written "Gioco".



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