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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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Feb-13-19		WinKing: Your on a mission. Good luck the rest of the way <Annie>. You've got it goin'!

Feb-13-19		Annie K.: <WinKing> thanks! :)

Feb-19-19		WinKing: The reason I wanted to refund all of the bets <Annie> is I didn't want anyone making or losing chessbucks on a bogus round. This was definitely a case for not paying off bets until the round is over. But I know the members like being paid in a timely fashion as I myself do when I am playing. I won't change my style. I did, however, feel it necessary to explain my strong stance on refunding the bets in this instance. Thanks again for clearing the way to refund the chessbucks.

Feb-20-19		jessicafischerqueen: <Annie> Happy 2019! That was our old friend <NOBODY> who originally pointed that out. I hadn't noticed it before either.

Feb-20-19		Annie K.: <WinKing> ok, no problem. :) <Jess> Happy 2019 to you too!

Mar-09-19		jessicafischerqueen: <Annie> Good heavens.. All I had to do was look in the <Biographer's Bistro>, not to mention actually check my own submitted games folder... I will contact <Latvian Chess History Project> colleagues and we will begin organizing again. I really can't thank you enough for your work in this matter. I don't have any burritos to send, but I will settle for a timely holiday greeting: Happy Spring Solstice! (the Solstice will uploaded soon, on March 21-22) I still don't know how to do the "manufactured emotjis" but I will try: <^^X]oo> If I'm not mistaken, that is the home made emoti for "Thank you for your work to improve cg.com"

Mar-09-19		jessicafischerqueen: <Annie> I just came back from the "new Cg.com hires" page and I'm impressed that you have hired two (2) of the best in the business. https://i.gifer.com/BSmK.gif https://thumbs.gfycat.com/CriminalK...

Mar-09-19		OhioChessFan: Here's the 2 new hires in a consultation game. Unfortunately, they have rather poor teamwork: https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comme...

Mar-10-19		Annie K.: <Jess> and the glove compartment...? ;) Yes, they do great work! =) <Ohio> they seem to have a considerable lead in development anyway...

Mar-11-19		jessicafischerqueen: <Annie> We can't thank you enough for restarting the correction/upload regime. Now my existing list of <Petrovs> corrections/upload submissions has been fully processed. I will begin submitting new <Petrovs> games today, but limit them to the missing games from <Sverdlosk 1942) tournament, so as not to swamp the "queue". I will also be emailing <hemy> today so that we can organize an orderly submission regime from our end, that won't duplicate any new work. Our project is alive again, thanks to your work! https://media.tenor.com/images/ba3e...

Mar-23-19		WinKing: Hi Annie. I accidentally paid off a Round 5 Over/Under bet. Any chance we can make that active again? There was only a 190 chessbucks on it.

Mar-23-19		Annie K.: <WinKing> done. <Jess> glad to have you back at work too... :)

Mar-23-19		WinKing: Thanks Annie! :)

Apr-21-19		virginmind: Hi <Annie K>, I posted a message on bookie forum, but <moronovich> wrote me that he prefers to keep all $100 gift certificate for myself. I will oblige and am grateful for his generosity and kindness. My email address is the same as per my chessgames.com profile. All the best and bravo for all the great work you're doing for this site!

Apr-21-19		Annie K.: Hi <virginmind>, thanks, and thanks for confirming. :)

May-18-19		jessicafischerqueen: Good afternoon. <Annie> I have discovered a method that avoids submitting faulty pgn game scores. I also corrected all of the faulty scores that were already published, and that Olga cannot play through. I just sent an email to chess@chessgames.com, with the header "Attention Annie (and other admins)". There is a lot of information in this email that I have recently discovered- all having to do with notation errors, Olga, online pgn players, and chess engines as well. Thank you for your hard work and dedication!

May-27-19		juan31: <Annie K: maybe i am wrong, in the chess player directory, is not Miss Jacqueline Piatigorsky> My opinion is that it should be. Thanks

May-27-19		Annie K.: <juan31> She does have a page: Jacqueline Piatigorsky. Many players are not in the Player Directory, that was never supposed to be a full list. You can find all the other players when you look for them with the E-Z or Advanced Search on the homepage.

May-27-19		juan31: Gracias for the answer

Jun-09-19		sonia91: Hi <Annie K>, can you add a forum for the currently underway <Karpov International> in Poikovsky, Russia? It's running for the 20th time this year, strong players (2700+ or former 2700+) take part, among them Vladislav Artemiev (world #10 in the lastest FIDE list). This tournament has been covered by cg.com since its 4th edition in 2003: Tournament Index search: "karpov poikovsky" PGNs are downloadable from TWIC: http://theweekinchess.com ("Live games"--> PGN--> RUS)

Jun-09-19		paavoh: Great suggestion <sonia91>, I will second that.

Jun-09-19		Annie K.: <sonia> thanks, I was aware of it, and it will certainly get a forum, but I intended to import it all at once after it ended. Updating round by round is a hassle that I doubt the interest in it would justify, seeing as we are covering both Norway and the Women's candidates now, and they get all the attention anyway.

Jun-09-19		paavoh: Chack out the Sasikiran - Artemiev from round 3 when it is available here or now at chessbomb.

Jun-09-19		Annie K.: <paavoh> thanks, I will. :)

Jun-12-19		sonia91: What about creating a forum (past)-halfway and update at the end with the final rounds games (instead of updating round by round, update only once at the end)? This way the tourney can still be discussed, even without the latest games. The same should be done with the Asian Continental. The European championship had a forum, also the participants are surely no weaker than their European conterparts. Both Poikovsky and Asian champ. have interesting games (this year more than the previous years in the case of Poikovsky). I think a chess database that claims to be the "best chess database and community" should cover not only the so called "elite events" with only top 10 plarticipants (a trend that I'm afraid derives from a major chess site that was recently bought by the world champion and another major site which covers almost exclusevely a particular US player and their online tournaments).

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