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Dutch people still jokingly invite newbies in the country to pronounce the name of the town 'Scheveningen'; this is kind of hard for native English speakers and very difficult for native German speakers, so it was used as a filter by the Dutch resistance during WW2.


Scheveningen - huh?

I recently read Robert Harris's book V2 based on this town. Good book.

Also, there is a chess opening variation named after this place. (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Defence,_Scheveningen... )

And it has held great chess tournaments in the past.

Plus the Scheveningen system is a method of organizing a chess match between two teams.

For a fairly obscure location, it certainly got on the map, so to speak.




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