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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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Jul-08-11		Open Defence: there are no equals, never will be...

Jul-08-11		shivasuri4: <shivasuri4:... for your mail ID> Sorry,that should read as follows:'...for my mail ID'.

Jul-08-11		Annie K.: <Interesting that you continue to address me in a condescending and patronising manner.> That's the attitude one invites when one does not behave like an adult. <Well,you are misrepresenting the issue here.<jfq> posted something in her forum and then deleted it later(she denies it,but I am positive about the posting and the deletion).So how is <tpstar> supposed to know about it unless he had chanced upon it earlier?> The post in question is here: OhioChessFan chessforum So it has never been deleted, has it? What <Jess> told you - here: tpstar chessforum and here: tpstar chessforum was correct and accurate. She didn't need to provide the link, because <tpstar> would find it himself anyway, and as for you, she didn't need to go out of her way to give you any explanations, considering that it was none of your business to start with. So, who needs to take a look at their conscience now, considering that you are freely slandering people with baseless accusations? Perhaps you should consider apologizing to <Jess> - and <tpstar> as well, for misinforming him. Good thing he didn't need to rely on your "imformation". <This is what I have a minor grouse with.The place at which you ticked me off was far from appropriate.> I addressed another potentially harmful allegation of yours - this time concerning <Benzol> - <where it was made>, or your false attribution could have harmed his reputation. You caused a problem by needless, thoughtless behavior... again... so I don't see where you get off expecting others to go out of their way to shelter you from its consequences. Grow up. And enough already. Your attitude is getting tiresome - kindly refrain from further polluting my forum.

Jul-08-11		OhioChessFan: <Odie: there are no equals, never will be...> Some of us are more equal than others.

Jul-08-11		hms123: <OCF> <Some of us are more equal than others.> It's good to be the King. :-)

Jul-08-11		shivasuri4: <Perhaps you should consider apologizing to <Jess> - and <tpstar> as well, for misinforming him. Good thing he didn't need to rely on your "imformation".> Okay,I missed the forum in which she posted that and thought she had deleted it.She has said far worse things to/about me than that.And you know that.It's nice fun,isn't it,to post some rubbish about someone/send an email to a fellow member after placing them on ignore so that they get no chance to respond?Some gang mentality,that.Anyways,goodbye!

Jul-08-11		Thanh Phan: As member of the cloud of observers I found the information to-date on the searches, interactions and etiquette both Neat and informative. <AnnieK> The way you repeat the names are of help, very much for learning their names. Of some interest, names like Przepiorka slow my mind as I try to find a path to say without stuttering. And the soft L the Russian language provides I find fewer troubles with. Different worlds of learning my guess. Offer thanks and take care ~Thanh

Jul-08-11		Annie K.: Back to our regular broadcast, folks, nice of you to drop by. ;) <Thanh> you're right. :) The mind has some trouble processing the unexpected. None of the languages I've grown up with had a soft L sound, so I can't quite "hear" it, and it's hard to reproduce what one can't even hear. <Deffi>, <Ohio>, <hms> - heh, nice sequence! <Jess> thanks for the Polgar playlist and all that. :) I'll get to mailz and stuffz tomorrow if all goes well - good news, btw. Re. <smoothies>: it has always been my belief that this biblical "manna" stuff, that was getting rave reviews from contemporary connoisseurs, must have been some kind of proto-smoothie. Well, one has to believe in <something>... :p I'm not sure Bast was Doing It Right, though, since if'n'twere a proper smoothie, the Israelites would never have wanted to leave Sinai. 40 years of a really good smoothie just ain't enough!

Jul-08-11		jessicafischerqueen: <Annie> well I was enthusiastic about the trio of new uploads, a little too enthusiastic perhaps. I thought <Judit's> photo was particularly striking. In Korea they don't have SMOOTHIES. Really they don't, haven't heard of them either. They have "Roughies," which are a blend of carbonated water and squid juice.

Jul-08-11		Annie K.: <Jess> u haz a blender? The rest is simple. If it weren't simple, I wouldn't be making'em. ;) Judit's photo is very good, isn't it? It's the one they have up at Wiki now, with the Wikimedia Commons usage permission and all. I was surprised too, particularly after seeing the rather plain one Susan has there. There are much better pics of Susan online, but hey, if that's the one she authorized for use, that's what she gets.

Jul-08-11		jessicafischerqueen: Korea does not have blenders (really they don't!). We venture on TOP SECRET territory here, but I'm both assured and terrified by your prudent circumspection with regard to posting authorized material on your youtube channel. I live in constant fear that mine will be struck down without warning. The thing is, the stakes are high- I have a lot of my stuff uploaded on other video servers- but the audience for them is almost nil. Plus nobody comments on my videos there so I get no feedback or encouragement. At any rate, I have all raw files stored at multiple off-line locations, "just in case." I'm afraid I was a little harsh in my reply to that gentleman's comment on <Judit's> video- I know who he is, and he's actually a loyal fan of your channel and all of my chess channels. He is also a very nice man. However, I couldn't let that pass- the whole point is that you have done the research and you have a good microphone so that you DON'T have to resort to some kind of mechanical program shenanigans. Rumor has it you can even speak Hungarian.

Jul-08-11		crawfb5: Some time ago, I accepted an invitation to join a team at CW. Nothing happened for quite a while, so I mostly forgot about it, until I had eight new games show up unexpectedly! Nevertheless, my first experience in online team play is going well. So far I am 7-0 on Board 2, and our team is 16-0. How is such a thing possible? Easy -- just get a 2800 player on Board 1 and everybody else on the team gets opponents a couple of hundred points lower than otherwise. Nice shark. Pretty shark. :-) Finally having played some team games, I'll have to find time someday to explore some of the other resources over there other than just playing games. You'd think three years would have been enough time... -)

Jul-09-11		Annie K.: <Jess: <Korea does not have blenders (really they don't!).>> O noes. I'm afraid you will have to move to another country. I mean, no chess clubs is bad enough, but no blenders?? Just tell Richard to start packing if he wants to come with you. ;) Very good that you keep backups of your work. <Rumor has it you can even speak Hungarian.> Heh. No worries about the comments, btw. :) The odd thing was that I didn't get notifications for them, and I usually do. Hmm... are my mail spam settings acting up, or my YT settings?

Jul-09-11		Annie K.: <craw> yeah, the team league games tend to come as a surprise if one isn't used to them. ;s The issue with the rating disparities, and particularly the distribution of the very high rated players among teams is a tricky one - I believe there are some restrictions in place already, but it's hard to regulate these things, since the teams are self-forming. At least you will probably earn the team medal icon from this - I still don't have that one. :)

Jul-11-11		Domdaniel: I think Annie is correct in postulating a biblical origin for 'smoothies'. Fans may recall the story of Esau and Jacob, the 'smooth man' and the 'hairy man'. By extension a 'smoothie' is: a close shave, or a type of razor blade that delivers one; a smooth-talking clean-shaven male seducer of women; a file. A file is a rough object that makes things smooth. I have lots. A 'shiv', incidentally, is a home-made knife, of the type used to stab people in the back in prison. Shaving's behaving. But of course I am just a smooth man in hairy man drag.

Jul-11-11		Annie K.: Heh... <Dom>, that post is so reference-heavy and meta that it's almost antimeta. ;) Thanks. :) Incidentally, the word cloud "hairy man drag" conjures here the image of the ancient caveman, purportedly dragging his cavewoman of choice to his cave by her hair. Which is the hairy way of doing things, I suppose. :p Oh and another connection; I'm sortof associating manna with ambrosia, given that all those olde mythologies liked to borrow elements from each other anyhoo, and ambrosia is another divine food that some mortals have partaken of. And as far as I can tell, ambrosia <is> a smoothie, rilly. ;)

Jul-11-11		Domdaniel: <Annie> That may well be so. What the word evokes for me, however, is an abomination called Ambrosia creamed rice. Put it this way. I eat a lot of rice, mostly basmati or risotto. Savoury dishes. My 'rebellious' distaste for the once-ubiquitous potato may be to blame, but it turned me into a rice conoisseur, kinda. And I have a horror of sweet rice dishes, particularly those in tins. Then there's 'Saint' Ambrose, a 4th century xtian phanatique reputed to be the first man in history to read books without simultaneously speaking the words aloud. This 'silent reading' party trick was the talk of the dark ages. And like the guy in Stargate sez, "They didn't call them the Dark Ages because it was dark".

Jul-12-11		jessicafischerqueen: <Annie> the so called youtube "settings" can, and often do, change without warning and for no reason. They call it "bugs" and they happen with annoying frequency. For the last week the channel page settings for all five of my accounts kept changing "by themselves". At first I suspected ghosts. My "Unexplained Science" channel officially still does, but it may have a vested interest in such fare.

Jul-12-11		mworld: here's a Korean company that makes blenders for you. http://www.list-of-companies.org/De...

Jul-12-11		Domdaniel: <Jess> It sounds like you are being 'investigated' by the ghost of the News of the World, which was 'put to sleep' by Rupert Murdoch. Maybe it doesn't know it's dead, and needs an exorcist to cast nasturtiums back at it.

Jul-12-11		mworld: wow, on top of blenders that Korean company I linked you to also makes the one of the world's most renowned juicers. what are the odds?! http://www.oscar-living-juicer.com/ i think someone will be enjoying smoothies more than anyone else soon enough. =] ps - it must be safe enough to leave the house and get one by now!

Jul-12-11		Domdaniel: Isn't 'Juicer' the official philosophy of North Korea, embodying the values of self-reliance, comradeship, submission to the leader, and the importance of citrus fruit? Yes, here we are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juche They spell it slightly differently, of course, being Northern. Northerners everywhere are more stubborn and idiosyncratic than Southerners (New Englanders, Geordies, Norn Irelanders, etc), except in the southern hemisphere where it's the other way round (Patagonians, Tazzies, etc).

Jul-13-11		jessicafischerqueen: <Welcome to m World> Thanks very much for such detailed blender information. I've never met a blender advocate before, so I'm very pleased to make your acquaintance. I met an ape advocate once. He went around showing films in cafes about how people treat apes badly. He was handing us fliers for his next show, and my friend <Bernie> looked at him: "You're an ape advocate." That was the first, and last, time I ever heard the phrase "ape advocate" spoken aloud. I would pay 5000 dollars to relive that moment.

Jul-13-11		mworld: Thank you, and your welcome. Oddly, I did recently purchase a good blender, the vitamix. My previous one was an Oscar, which is Kum Ah's brand, that had gotten dull. I like being able to make icecream with honey instead of sugar in this one. I'd say advocate fits me well, although I may not be an ape advocate since I don't treat ours very well =]

Jul-13-11		Domdaniel: <Jess> Just as long as he didn't move to Alaska and get filmed by Werner Herzog being eaten alive by apes. Stranger things have happened. All animal rights advocates are deeply sane, but may have their priorities in a muddle. As has been said before, "Vivisectionists are animals too!" Funny how nobody talks much about vivisection anymore. Even the most ardent opponents just mumble about 'animal experiments'. It must be the sheer Mengelesque blatancy of the word. <- What do you do at work, Daddy? - Oh, [important voice] I'm chief vivisectionist in a science laboratory. - What's that, Daddy? - I cut up little furry animals with sharp knives. While they're still alive and healthy. - But not when you finish with 'em, eh, Dad? - Nope. [pause] That's my boy.> Is the bear Catholic? Does the Pope go the woods for his daily constitutional? Does 'thou shalt not kill' say anything about only applying to humans? Just growling. Kreegah.

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