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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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Jul-18-11		Domdaniel: <Jess> Cool by me, hon. But if the Korean authorities (and Richard) were to learn from some mysterious anonymous source that you were not, in fact, a properly constituted submissive female as defined by the Stepford Wives Treaty ... ? I imagine Richard already knows. But the powers that be might be alarmed at your penchant for original thought.

Jul-18-11		Annie K.: <Jess: <It's the squeaky boyfriend who gets the grease.>> LOL, wonderful adaptation! <He polished off today's session by mentioning how much he loves your voice an irritatingly numerous amount of times.> Don't worry, I'm sure he only does this to annoy you... ;) <Dom> heh! You really should read 'Clan of the Cave Bear', dear. It would give you such ideas... in fact, I'm sure I would quickly regret ever having suggested it to you. Shall I send it with the next shipment, then? ;)

Jul-18-11		Domdaniel: <Annie> I scanned the bookshelves in my local emporia today, and could see nothing I felt remotely like reading. I may be about to enter one of my occasional non-reading phases, where I draw crude pictures and howl at the moon. Or reread Pynchon or catch up on some maths. Whatever. I was amused to see books by Annie McCaffery co-authored with son Todd. Good to see that having an avatar on a feline planet didn't mark him for life. 'Todd', btw, was a somewhat unusual first name in 1970s Ireland. The American habit of using surnames as first names never quite caught on here, so the population went straight from pre-modern saints' names to postmodern celebrity names. Not much change, I suppose, in the broad view. It was noted back then, however, that both of the resident sci-fi authors, McCaffrey and Harry Harrison, had offspring named Todd. Among those in the know, it was thought to be an sf thing. BTW, I don't need fantasy novels for lessons in how to be a sexist primitive. I've encountered and studied the species in RL, sometimes while wearing mascara. I suppose I was quite brave in my youth, rilly, in a non-macho kinda way. And being short-sighted actually keeps one out of fights - you can't accidentally make eye contact with cavemen.

Jul-18-11		valiant: <Annie K.: <hms> YEEEEE!!! Um, this seems to be the problem with that pronunciation - the first syllable of <Gideon>, that is.> Hej, the soft g-sound + i (ee) -- can be heard/caught at 21sec in this video; when she says bank<gi>ro ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaiD...

Jul-18-11		Domdaniel: Hej hej. Sörmlands Sparbank is going to be taken aback by the mysterious popularity of their YouTube clip. It could lead to a run on the Krona and the collapse of the international banking system ... Oh, wait, didn't that happen already?

Jul-18-11		jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> I thought you were up on the latest everything? <Sormlands Spermbank> is the best female vocalist to come out of Norway since Henrik Ibsen.

Jul-18-11		jessicafischerqueen: Emma Watson

Jul-18-11		Domdaniel: Wasn't Henrik Ibsen the guy in the German helmet on that stone-age TV show, what was it, Rowan and Martin Laugh-in? The one where Googie Withers played Goldie Hawn.

Jul-18-11		Annie K.: <valiant> thanks! :) I'll check it out this weekend, along with the rest of my homework... ;) <Dom: <I scanned the bookshelves in my local emporia today, and could see nothing I felt remotely like reading. I may be about to enter one of my occasional non-reading phases, where I draw crude pictures and howl at the moon.>> The pictures go directly on the walls, yes? :) Alternatively, as rereading goes, you could perhaps try scanning the floor, the tables, the chairs, and the bed and under - somehow mesuspects your better books are more likely to be there somewhere than on the bookshelves? ;) <BTW, I don't need fantasy novels for lessons in how to be a sexist primitive. I've encountered and studied the species in RL, sometimes while wearing mascara.> Heh. ...& sigh. There you go again. :) CotCB is <not> a fantasy novel. It's prehistoric fiction, which is most like science fiction, but in the opposite temporal direction. Or like a historic novel, only more so. But it was in line with cutting-edge archaeological theories when it was first published - seriously researched. Now, 30 years later, with many of those theories fallen out of favor, I suppose it could be viewed somewhat as fantasy... but that wouldn't be doing it justice. Still, it's quite a good book, srsly. :) <I was amused to see books by Annie McCaffery co-authored with son Todd. Good to see that having an avatar on a feline planet didn't mark him for life.> You sure about that? It seems he is still busy with tails. Oh, wait, that's 'tales'. ;p

Jul-19-11		jessicafischerqueen: Close, <Dom> Googie Withers won the 1947 Kentucky Derby.

Jul-20-11		Thanh Phan: Korean grammar: The Viêt instead of English subtitles seem to make more sense in the YouTube series City Hunter, perhaps different translators were working then. That or my English failed me some how lol BBC thoughts on Americanisms: 50 of your most noted examples: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-... Clan of the Cave Bear; You May Be Part Neanderthal, Scientists Say: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011...

Jul-20-11		Annie K.: <Thanh> thanks for that. Archaeologist/paleoanthropologist Erik Trinkaus, longtime proponent of the interbreeding theory, should be very happy about that conclusion - as well as Jean Auel. :)

Jul-20-11		chancho: User: israel

Jul-23-11		Annie K.: <chancho> thanks. :) In this case, there might be a simple explanation, since Israel is also a fairly common first name.

Jul-23-11		chancho: <Annie> You're right.

Jul-24-11		jessicafischerqueen: Hi <Annie> good to see you again! In order to help welcome you back, I found this highly rare but easy to find item- Oh noes! Yes it's teh original photograph of <Longcat> just in case you might like to see it again. It's internets history! http://encyclopediadramatica.ch/ima...

Jul-24-11		jessicafischerqueen: Aha I see you were only gone 3 days. Doh! I think I may actually have been awake for the last 3 days.

Jul-24-11		hms123: <Annie> Emu received. I will be reading my assignment in a few moments.

Jul-24-11		hms123: <Annie> Excellent story. Quite prescient in some ways, but not in others, for a story from that era.

Jul-24-11		Annie K.: <Jess: I think I may actually have been awake for the last 3 days.>> Whyzdat? :s Heh - thanks for Longcat. Kittehz can take funny shapes! Like here: http://cheezburger.com/View/2790496... And here's another favorite pic, with two different captions: http://cheezburger.com/View/4646904... http://cheezburger.com/View/4946275... <hms> yes, for something written in 1955, it's quite impressive. Asimov was good at that - in fact, if you're familiar with the later Robots series ('The Caves of Steel', 'The Naked Sun', 'The Robots of Dawn', etc., that goes on to merge with the Empire series eventually), you might note that the depiction of the Solarian civilization looks remarkably like one possible outcome of a society gone entirely online/virtual - long before the internet was ever dreamed of... well, by anyone other than Asimov, that is. If only his human characters were not somewhat less thin than cigarette paper, he would have been the greatest SF writer, far ahead of the rest of the field. But even with that weakness, his foresight, originality, inventiveness, wealth of ideas, and sense of humor, put him among the all-time greatest.

Jul-26-11		jessicafischerqueen: <Annie> excellent kitez thank you! Also, I found a story in my EMU box- I will send you some comments after I read it, thanks for sharing it with me. I was up for three days because there was a mini-holiday here so I got Richard over for marathon recording sessions. He got a lot done, nowhere near finished though. This weekend he'll be back and our actual summer vacation starts, so I expect <Nezh> to be finished during that period. I hope. It's maddening trying to score the segments. I have so much music on my hard drive, but I could always use a fresh suggestion. If you can think of any music that would go good with <Nezhmetdinov> narration, please don't hesitate to recommend it- could be anything. You never know what might work. Ok back later- horrifyingly, <encyclopedia dramatica> has been brought back from the dead, amid much drama, so I've been wasting time catching up with the ultra-hip. It's all so mysterious to me but I doubt it's "good for me" to be investigating but who knows. <Howard> called it "The Rabbit Hole" before. He almost fell in...

Jul-26-11		kingscrusher: Happy birthday Annie!

Jul-26-11		hms123: <Annie> You don't look a day older! Happy Birthday!

Jul-26-11		TheFocus: <Annie> All my best. Happy birthday!!

Jul-26-11		Thanh Phan: <Annie K.> Happy Birthday! Love the kitty some assembly required picture ~ Have a picture of a cat walking on the moon in front of a Spacesuit guy <jessicafischerqueen> Maybe ~ the Bach Solfeggio or Solfeggietto - Meditation from thais - Marche Slave - Cello version of Traumerei by Pau Casals- http://youtu.be/Ia62s3sz9fU The others have many interpretations and variations to choose from

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