I once tortured some kids with a Russian name. I was working at a chess tournament, the U.S. Closed: it's an invitational of the best players in the USA and the winner represents the USA in international competition. I was a photographer and gopher. The last game was over, everyone was gone, and I was closing down the playing hall for the night. Two kids were at a board playing "at" chess, not making correct moves, they clearly didn't know how to play. I told them that I needed to lock up the room and that they had to leave, they begged for five more minutes. I told them OK, if they could answer one question. They said OK. I told them to pronounce a name, and held up one of the player's name plates: Roman Dzindzichashvili.
The last name is pronounced, as I recall, along the lines of Ginjashveelee. His peak FIDE chess rating was 2595, but most of the time at the tournaments that I worked he played for draws then ran off to poker rooms to play for money.
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I once tortured some kids with a Russian name. I was working at a chess tournament, the U.S. Closed: it's an invitational of the best players in the USA and the winner represents the USA in international competition. I was a photographer and gopher. The last game was over, everyone was gone, and I was closing down the playing hall for the night. Two kids were at a board playing "at" chess, not making correct moves, they clearly didn't know how to play. I told them that I needed to lock up the room and that they had to leave, they begged for five more minutes. I told them OK, if they could answer one question. They said OK. I told them to pronounce a name, and held up one of the player's name plates: Roman Dzindzichashvili.
The last name is pronounced, as I recall, along the lines of Ginjashveelee. His peak FIDE chess rating was 2595, but most of the time at the tournaments that I worked he played for draws then ran off to poker rooms to play for money.
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