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Annie K.
Member since Apr-02-04

Annie Kappel
This profile needs an update badly, but I don't have the time... :)
My YouTube channel, featuring pronunciations of non-English chess player names: http://www.youtube.com/user/AnnieK1...
I'm 45 y/o, of Transylvanian origin, living in Israel since childhood. I speak English (no, really), Hungarian (great language!), and Hebrew (if I must, which is often, for some reason).
Afflicted with an uncontrollable sense of humor and other highly controversial characteristics.
I learned chess as a child, but had no further opportunities to practice the game. Returned to it seriously around 2004, and have been hanging out here since.
Note: if I am not home (i.e., here), you can probably find me at the Domdaniel chessforum, the SwitchingQuylthulg chessforum, the visayanbraindoctor chessforum, or the chessgames.com chessforum! :)
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<My City of Moscow skits:>
<<<<<<>>>>> Kramnik's Party -> City of Moscow (kibitz #752)
<<<<<<>>>>> Sochi 2008: An F-Files Production -> City of Moscow (kibitz #774)
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<Game Collection: My GotD Puns>
<My favorites:>
All Your Baze Are Belong To Us - L Baze vs T Palmer, 2004 - GotD Mar-21-10
Y Yu No Claim Repetition? - Yu Yangyi vs M R Venkatesh, 2012 - GotD Jun-30-12
He Who Has E Tate is Lost - E Tate vs Y Shulman, 2001 - GotD Sep-22-16
How Many Roads Must Aman Walk Down? - S Shankland vs A Hambleton, 2014 - GotD Dec-23-16 (besides the obvious reason for the pun - a long King walk - note also the terms 'shank' and 'amble' embedded in the player names)
So me the Wei - W So vs Wei Yi, 2013 - GotD Jan-29-17
This Won't Borya Ider - B Ider vs Wei Yi, 2014 - GotD Apr-01-17 (follow-up to previous day's GotD, 'This Won't Borya')
Injun vs Engin' - Anand vs REBEL, 1997 - GotD Jan-06-2018
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<My other (linkable) site contributions:>
* The Player Names Pronunciation Project: http://www.chessgames.com/audio (or look for names with a loudspeaker icon in the Player Directory)
* Created on my suggestion: Biographer Bistro
* The first (now retired) Carlsen Dancing Rook: https://web.archive.org/web/2013040...
* The Caruana Dancing Rook:
http://www.chessgames.com/chessimag...
* The Hou Dancing Rook:
http://www.chessgames.com/chessimag...
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<<<<<<< MAJOR CHESS SITES <<>>>>>>>>>
<< Correspondence chess <<<<<<>>>>>>>>
< ChessWorld -> http://www.chessworld.net
ChessWorld is my new main chess playing base. It's a rather restrictive site for non-paying members, but one of the best sites for paying members. The full features include excellent interface options and first class study and analysis resources. Nice community, likeable admin. Paid membership recommended.
< Update: while I will leave the original entry for ChessWorld as-is, I have by now been a member of the site for 2 years, and am now an admin there. I still think the site is one of the best, and the <other> admins are nice. :p >
My ChessWorld profile: http://www.letsplaychess.com/chessc...
< Queen Alice -> http://www.queenalice.com
Queen Alice is a charming site - well behaved players, decent admin, site design visually very pleasant. It is also completely free. Unfortunately, it lacks team play, the interface and resources are relatively simple, and it can be frustratingly slow (loading times). Nevertheless warmly recommended.
My QueenAlice profile: http://www.queenalice.com/player.ph...
< GameKnot -> http://gameknot.com
GameKnot is technically an excellent site, however I would not recommend it to the serious player who is looking for a site to settle in, due to an anti$ocial admin with ju$t one $ingle intere$t in hi$ $ite... oop$, $orry about the typo$.
My GameKnot profile: http://gameknot.com/stats.pl?annie-....
<< Other chess sites <<<<<<>>>>>>>>
< FICS - the Free Internet Chess Server -> http://www.freechess.org
FICS is a great site to play chess at various faster time controls. There are a few difficulties getting started with it - first, it can be hard to find an email they will accept for registration; and second, there's a lot of site code to learn. But it's worth the hassle. :)
< ChessCube -> http://www.chesscube.com
ChessCube is quite good for fast time control games - provided you have a strong computer with broadband, as the site is entirely Flash based, which means it takes considerable computer resources to load. The site is nominally free, but heavily commercialized with all sorts of frills that can be purchased on it.
< Emrald Chess Tactics Server -> http://chess.emrald.net
Emrald is not a playing site - it is an invaluable tactical training asset. The only problem with it is also the difficulty of finding an "acceptable" email address to register with; but once past that hurdle, the site deserves nothing but praise.
It's a completely free site. You can play (practice) there as a guest, but they recommend registering, so that their program can keep track of your progress, in order to assign you puzzles best suited to your current level. I strongly second that recommendation. Register and always play logged in! It will make a huge difference in the site's ability to help you improve. An issue that scares some people off Emrald is that your progress is tracked via a "rating system", and because of the high importance they assign to speed, if you are not used to finding tactics fast, your rating will be very low at first - and many people are simply embarrassed to play logged in for that reason. Don't let it bother you! If you let embarrassment hold you back from letting the site help you improve to the best of its ability, you are only shooting yourself in the foot, and nobody else really cares that much anyway. ;p
A few of the people I've recommended Emrald to, had dropped it after a brief trial with remarks along the lines of "Oh, it's a blitz training site. I don't play blitz, so I don't like their obsession with speed." That reaction is absolutely wrong - and it's also one that many people who try the site out for only a short time are likely to have, if only because players who are used to being rated, say, 2000 and above, at corr. chess sites, are going to be annoyed and put on the defensive about finding themselves rated as low as 1200-1300 at Emrald, and will wish to dismiss the "insulting" site.
Yes, the Emrald rating system is heavily influenced by speed. But thinking that the site's purpose is blitz training is a complete misunderstanding of the lesson taught. The real purpose of Emrald practice is not to improve your blitz skills, but to train you to recognize dozens of tactical themes and opportunities AT A GLANCE - which will not only save you time in games of any time control, but is often the only way you will catch them AT ALL. Those brilliant tactical shots that can be seen in anyone's collection of "most memorable games", are often moves that will either occur to you as soon as you glance at the position, or you will miss them altogether. That's what Emrald really teaches - tactical chess intuition.
<Intuition in chess can be defined as the first move that comes to mind when you see a position. --- <Viswanathan Anand>>
<Personally, I am of the view that if a strong master does not see such a threat at once he will not notice it, even if he analyses the position for twenty or thirty minutes. --- <Tigran Petrosian >>
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^ TL;DR.

Any other questions, feel free to ask. I might even answer. ;p

>> Click here to see Annie K.'s game collections.

   Current net-worth: 990 chessbucks
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   Annie K. has kibitzed 8212 times to chessgames [more...]

   Sep-15-20 S Mariotti vs A Geller, 1990

Annie K.: The Black player in this game has been corrected from Efim to Alexander Geller. Thanks. :)

   Sep-14-20 chessgames.com chessforum

Annie K.: <MissS> ah, yes, the key term "I challenged her" - that pretty much describes the previous post too, which was a blown out of all proportion tirade about the severity of the Player of the Day (not the entire homepage as claimed, which I check on almost every midnight, ...

   Sep-12-20 Champions Showdown Chess 9LX (2020)

Annie K.: Note: if you can't see the games, please set your game viewer to pgn4web (in the box under the game score) - but remember to set it back to our default viewer Olga in the end, as it is about to be upgraded soon, and will be the best of our viewers. :)

   Sep-04-20 Chessgames Bookie chessforum

Annie K.: The logs have been checked, and the top places are cleared. Congratulations to winner <moronovich>, the other 5 qualifiers, and the rest of the top 10! :) We have opened the Fall Leg, so if anything turns up, betting can start immediately, but we have no official schedule for

   Aug-01-20 Biographer Bistro

Annie K.: <Tab> The WCC pages are tied in with some special functions, and changing them can cause far-ranging problems at this time (remember when merely changing the WCC page titles caused stats to disappear from the pages of participating players?), so let's take this up again after

   Jul-29-20 Ding Liren vs Leko, 2020

Annie K.: Identical to K Stupak vs E Shtembuliak, 2020 .

   Jul-24-20 Annie K. chessforum

Annie K.: A fun conversation from 2016... :) <Daniel:> I’ve come to learn a lot about what sports broadcasting must be like. Actually I learned about it long before CG when I worked at a newspaper. If there is a sporting event you MUST be excited about it, from a business ...

   Jul-22-20 Biel (2020)

Annie K.: It gets worse - the chess24 intro says "In case of a tie for first place chess960 rapid games will be played", but in fact the official site specifies that the chess960 tiebreaks in question are the ACCENTUS 960 games - which have already been played on the 18th, the event's first ...

   Jul-21-20 Csom vs A Yusupov, 1982

Annie K.: The only requirement for this excellent pun is to pronounce Csom correctly. Which means, as "Chom". :)

   Jul-17-20 K Pedersen vs G F Kane, 1972

Annie K.: <jith> thank you for the always helpful directions. :) So all 12 Pedersen games we have in Chess Olympiad Final-A (1972) games are about to be reassigned from Eigil to Karl.

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Procrastinators' Club (planned)

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Oct-12-17		thegoodanarchist: <Annie K.: Thanks :) I can only recommend selling the TV... it's likely to make you feel better, anyway. ;s> I gave away my TV for free, last year on July the 28th. (Actually, it was in exchange for temporary housing, and I just moved out without taking the TV with me.) I miss it on rare occasions, but not as much as I thought I would.

Oct-15-17		Domdaniel: Indeed I do. But then I move with the speed of a striking snail... Sci-fi alert: read "The Snail on the Slope" by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky. Great writers - and "Roadside Picnic", on which Tarkovsky (aka Tarka the Auteur) based his great film 'Stalker' is also very good. Likewise 'Hard to be a God', 'Definitely Maybe', and 'The Doomed City'. Yes, I have a TV set. But I never watch it. Unlike many people who say "I don't watch TV", I mean it. Mine hasn't been switched on in at least two years ... and switching it on wouldn't achieve much, as it's not tuned to any channels and I don't have a cable service. So there.

Oct-21-17		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> Any chance we could get a forum for Wei Yi vs. Ivanchuk? (I wouldn't complain if we got forums for Adhiban vs. van Foreest and the Chigorin Memorial as well, but Wei Yi vs. Ivanchuk is the important one.)

Oct-21-17		SwitchingQuylthulg: Hoogeveen, Netherlands

Oct-21-17		Annie K.: <Switch> I'll get on it (at least the first and the third). :) But srsly, you shouldn't bother with small-league affairs like the latter two. Researching them is more work than there will be interest (and profit) in them anyway - basically, if the informal betting competitions don't cover an event, you can safely skip it too. ;)

Oct-21-17		Annie K.: floccinaucinihilipilification

Oct-21-17		SwitchingQuylthulg: You just don't want the players to learn to expect regular betting again. :) There aren't many big events during the fall season; if I only offered betting for big events this would be a very short leg.

Oct-21-17		SwitchingQuylthulg: Tanks Peak, Colorado

Oct-21-17		Annie K.: Of course! :D

Dec-11-17		Alien Math: hi <Annie K.> thought you would like this article, although it's not a Rendezvous with Rama, it's pretty neat, <Astronomers are to use one of the world’s largest telescopes to check a mysterious object that is speeding through the solar system for signs of alien technology. The Green Bank telescope in West Virginia will listen for radio signals being broadcast from a cigar-shaped body which was first spotted in the solar system in October. The body arrived from interstellar space and reached a peak speed of 196,000 mph as it swept past the sun.> ~ https://www.theguardian.com/science...

Dec-11-17		Annie K.: Heh... well, it's a relief that it seems to be in a hurry, whatever it is. Don't really want an alien visit right now - the place is an embarrassing mess these days. ;s

Dec-12-17		Domdaniel: Oh, gawd, yes... first contact? Hold on, please, while we get the cleaners in...

Dec-12-17		Boomie: <a cigar-shaped body> Is Groucho returning? Oh, please...

Dec-12-17		Alien Math: there are a couple similarities between Rendezvous with Rama and Oumuamua (the Hawaiian name for messenger) object, both have interstellar origins, both have an elongated shape or cigar shape, the differences are interesting with Rama's projectile speed at 100,000km/h (about 62,000mph) and Oumuamua having 196,000mph speeds and humans currently have no ready to launch for intercepts where the Rama book had a survey vessel at the ready

Dec-12-17		Alien Math: i like the reactions to this type of info, another reason why i like to share these tidbits with you

Dec-13-17		Annie K.: <Hanh> thanks, keep doing it. I don't usually follow these sites, so it's nice to get a heads-up now and then. :)

Dec-14-17		Domdaniel: Rudyard Kipling, that canny old colonialist, wrote: <For a woman is only a woman But a good cigar is a smoke> Later, EE Cummings parodied these lines: <For a bad cigar is a woman But a gland is only a gland> And Melanie Safka wrote: <A thing is a phallic symbol If it's longer than it's wide> Otherwise, I reckon the only common attribute of women and cigars is that both are dangerous to men and other lesser lifeforms.

Dec-14-17		Annie K.: And sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. ;p

Dec-14-17		Domdaniel: <Annie> Indeed. And here. for you, is the very wonderful Ms Melanie Safka and her song 'Psychotherapy'. Give it a listen. https://youtu.be/fBIaZ9aTWco

Dec-14-17		Mr. President: At least I'll go down as a President that never sniffed a Cuban cigar.

Dec-14-17		Domdaniel: <Mr. President> Or possibly as a Cuban cigar that never went down ...?

Dec-15-17		jessicafischerqueen: <Annie> How are you? Are you still running the <Chess Bookie>? I lost every single bet I ever made. Does that count? I dropped in because when I checked the <forum activity> page I saw this: <Congrats #4&5! ;p> and I started laughing. At first glance, this here- <#4&5!> looked like the character substitution our software does when someone posts a "bad word." I thought you were making a joke by swearing, to show in a humorous way that you were angry that <Switch> got the clues instead of you! On closer inspection I realized this wasn't true. It was a straight up congratulation all along. heh

Dec-16-17		Annie K.: Hey <Jess>!! Good to see you around! Heheh, very funny, thanks for that - it never occurred to me what that would look like out of context. :D As it were, I would have no cause to be jealous of Switch, since I can't play anyway - not just because I'm also one of the klu submitters (others are too, but they are only disqualified from solving their own klus) - but because I have seen all of them. :) On the other hand, at the moment <Switch> is running the Bookie, not me, but that will get handed back to me shortly too. ;s And what the heck have you been up to? =)

Dec-16-17		jessicafischerqueen: Aha so you became the <Klu King>? That's a serious trust! Not much <Annie> really just waiting out the time on my last contract and then returning to Canada. I don't want to be a Korean any more. My Mom asked me to come back and live with her. She needs someone to be in her apartment because she is so old. She will turn 150 next summer! Seriously she could easily afford a "live in nurse" but she doesn't want to live with a stranger.

Dec-16-17		Annie K.: Well, being a caretaker can be a hard job... you may want to consider hiring a live-in nurse <in addition> to you living there - then your Mom wouldn't be alone with a stranger, but it would be easier for you. Glad to hear you are finally getting out of Korea, anyway. :)

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