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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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Aug-18-11		Domdaniel: As they may well say in the University of Mississippi, "Miss U!". yours The Not There Kid

Aug-19-11		chancho: <Annie> we could use some of your "super villainy" around here. :-) Hope all is well.

Aug-19-11		twinlark: Hey Annie Happy belated and marvelously well done on those vids with Jess and Crawfb5! I just watched the Rossolimo vid and it was beautifully assembled.

Aug-28-11		Annie K.: Thanks, guys! Love ya. =) <Dom> so, has your aim improved yet, dear? ;) <twinlark> thanks, all credit to <Jess> on that - I just helped with the pronunciations some, along with <Switch>. :) OK, will these do for villainy? (Still working on the super part...) :p [Event "FICS rated blitz game"] [Date "2011.08.22"] [White "NN"] [Black "AnnieK"] [WhiteElo "1081"] [BlackElo "1540"] [TimeControl "600+0"] [Mode "ICS"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. c3 a6 4. Be2 Bc5 5. b4 Ba7 6. O-O Nf6 7. d3 h6 8. Nbd2 d6 9. Bb2 Be6 10. d4 exd4 11. cxd4 Bg4 12. h3 Bxf3 13. Bxf3 Nxd4 14. Re1 Nxf3+ 15. Nxf3 O-O 16. e5 dxe5 17. Bxe5 Qxd1 18. Raxd1 c6 19. Bxf6 gxf6 20. Nd4 Rfe8 21. Nf5 Rxe1+ 22. Rxe1 Kh7 23. Nd6 Kg6 24. a4 b5 25. axb5 axb5 26. Re7 Bd4 27. Rxf7 Be5 28. Rd7 Ra1# 0-1 [Event "FICS rated blitz game"] [Date "2011.08.25"] [White "AnnieK"] [Black "NN"] [WhiteElo "1553"] [BlackElo "1360"] [TimeControl "600+0"] [Mode "ICS"] [Result "1-0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 h6 4. c3 Nf6 5. d3 Bc5 6. Bb3 O-O 7. h3 d6 8. O-O Ne7 9. Nbd2 Ng6 10. Nc4 Ng4 11. hxg4 Bxg4 12. Ne3 Bh5 13. Nf5 Ne7 14. Ng3 Bg4 15. Qd2 Ng6 16. Nh2 Qh4 17. Nxg4 Qxg4 18. d4 exd4 19. cxd4 Bb6 20. Nf5 Qxe4 21. Bc2 Qg4 22. Qd3 (threat of 23.Bd1 traps the Q) Nf4 23. Nxh6+ gxh6 24. Qh7# 1-0 [Event "FICS rated blitz game"] [Date "2011.08.25"] [White "NN"] [Black "AnnieK"] [WhiteElo "1405"] [BlackElo "1557"] [TimeControl "600+0"] [Mode "ICS"] [Result "0-1"] 1. d3 e5 2. e4 Nc6 3. Nf3 h6 4. g3 a6 5. a4 Bc5 6. Bg2 d6 7. h3 Qf6 8. O-O Nge7 9. Nbd2 Ba7 10. Nc4 O-O 11. Be3 Nd4 12. c3 Nxf3+ 13. Bxf3 Bxh3 14. Re1 Bb8 15. d4 Ng6 16. Kh2 Be6 17. d5 Bd7 18. Bg2 Ne7 19. b4 Qg6 20. Rh1 Bg4 21. f3 Bd7 22. Kg1 Qxg3 23. Bf2 Qg6 24. Bh4 Re8 25. Kf2 f5 26. Bh3 Bc8 27. Qg1 Ba7+ 0-1 Yay blitz. :D

Aug-28-11		hms123: <Annie> Can we see some ID? We need to make sure that this is the real you. :-) BTW, nice games. I really liked <23.Nxh6+> in the second one. The back rank mate in the first, and the royal pin in the third were also fun to see.

Aug-28-11		Annie K.: Of course it's me! Who else would use 5(!!) different(!!) smileys in one post? :p Thanks for the game comments. :) The other funny thing was, that in the second game I could have just as easily played the less flashy 23.Ne7+ as well, but then he probably would have resigned - and I like ending my games with #! ;)

Aug-28-11		dakgootje: 5 is nothing :D I don't have as much variation though presumably :/ First game was <very> sneaky! I probably would've walked into it ;)

Aug-28-11		SwitchingQuylthulg: ...all these featureless, unmemorable people with uncomplicated faces... <{ ;;<{}-}>

Aug-28-11		Annie K.: <dakkie: <I probably would've walked into it>> That's what I like to hear! ;D <Switch> that's not a smiley, that's ASCII Art! Heh, I'm too lazy for that much flourish. ;) The longest ASCII art I indulge in, is my occasional sig: (^^)~

Aug-28-11		dakgootje: Art is a big word. Relatively speaking - although I'm not sure relative to what. Perhaps to to. It is a small big word. It's also a small big world - so perhaps the world of words is all there is. He spoke the word, and there was the world. He saw the world, and spoke no word. For it was good already.

Aug-28-11		Annie K.: Ah, yeah, like that joke about the kid who didn't speak until age 8, and then suddenly one morning he said 'Mom, this bacon is too salty!' ;p <so perhaps the world of words is all there is> That seems to be <Dom>'s outlook, so if you aspire to be like him, u r doin it rite. :) But I don't quite agree on that one... I enjoy a good pun as much as anybody, but I just can't be endlessly entertained by word games. I haven't quite grown tired yet of picking up some actual content to chew on mentally every now and then. ;) Focusing one's attention on the limited maneuvers possible within the boundaries of one language's coincidental word similarities seems like a basically monolingual fascination to me, and much like kids who have just learned how the horsie moves, and now insist on hopping in knight moves over the pavement everywhere they go. :s Then again, I feel much the same way about poetry. Guess I'm just not a very artistic type. :p

Aug-29-11		dakgootje: Ah yes, the equilibrium between form and content - or lack thereof. In some cases the content is all-important and all creativity is banned, for instance in research articles. Which are therefore hardly readable. The exact opposite of course being a kind of dada-istic poetry, which not even contain word jokes but merely gibberish. In a form. It's like taking Plato's idea-world a bit further. Plato on crack. Now that would've given interesting results. Or perhaps he was, and is therefore interesting. Might merely be a gliding scale of creativity or randomness - which is the inverse of apparent logic. Although there should be a better term for that. After all, the logic might still exist, but only is you have the key - the background and knowledge to decipher the piece of text. And of course, this being a gliding scale, one's preference for the equilibrium between randomness and order is fairly personal. Could even have one and the other at different times in different conditions like that one two-sided painting by Kandinsky. The last couple of years I've glided a bit down the slide - every now and then writing sentences or pieces of sentences; or whole pieces or parts of pieces, purely for the form. For instance, the <so perhaps the world of words is all there is> was mainly written due to the similarity or word and world. Afterwards, the sentence seemed quite nice and thought-out; which is almost the best of both worlds. The best being a great idea or thought -written because the writer exactly feels that way-, which is also pleasing in form. Does that answer your question? There was no question, was there. Well, anyway, there you go :) ps: i <3 horsiiieee!!1!

Aug-29-11		Domdaniel: Phew. You're alive. Not that I was worried or anything ... but I was just starting to think that today ... or maybe tomorrow ... sometime this week, for certain ... I'd have to start thinking about investigating the possibility of using these computer things to send messages. Sounds crazy, I know.

Aug-29-11		Domdaniel: Word games are content. The difference is that the content is shaped by formal concerns, rather than the usual cultural, ideological, political, religious, and semantic ones (aka 'meaning').

Aug-29-11		SwitchingQuylthulg: The form vs. content thing also applies to smilies, naturally. The less you care about the smiley having a sensible form, the more information you can transmit with it. Take <Annie>'s trademark :s for example. It doesn't look at all like a face, let alone one that conveys any particular feeling or emotion. And it's all the more usable and meaningful for it. :s is raw, pure and unshackled. It can do stuff a real face is completely inadequate for! It can also do stuff a face <is> capable of. It can do - and be - <anything>. (In other words, it's a lot like "squab"...) Of course, completely unlike "squab" it isn't used to mean just anything. Both words and smileys are somewhat like sacks. People can stuff in more and more meaning... but eventually they reach a point where trying to cram any extra in will result in either a sack overflow or a tear and the spilling of all content. Somehow I feel I'm getting out of my depth here :-<¿

Aug-29-11		dakgootje: Hmm.. yes, I took the word content as synonymous to meaning. Whereas it might be more proper to say a word has two separate.. entities; namely the meaning it has been given - and the characteristics like length, shape, rhythm and rhymhm which are important in word games. And a sentence can be build using one of the entities, both or neither. With all versions [except, perhaps, sentences lacking both] having content in some way.

Aug-29-11		dakgootje: What do you mean, :s does not look like a face at all? It clearly has 2 eyes and a curly-wurly bit. Does your face not have two eyes? Or curly-wurly bits?

Aug-29-11		Domdaniel: <Switching Q> -- <Somehow I feel I'm getting out of my depth here> Impossible. Unless previously unrecorded levels of benthicity are at play. Emoticons (they're not all smile-based) can also be read aloud, using the symbol names. Which is why I can no longer use <:p> - colon pee - with, um, a straight face. Then again, Annie's forum is no place for the straight-faced in the first place. {%--:->

Aug-29-11		SwitchingQuylthulg: I'm now thinking of :s as the whiskers-on-nose smiley - the one you'd use instead of the tongue-in-cheek smiley or the playful smiley if you were a) somewhat mischievous and b) a cat. Imagine the left side whiskers twisted up so they block your view of some of the nose, and there it is: :s (It's actually doable even with <my> face, but would probably be much more natural for a cat.)

Aug-29-11		Domdaniel: "Save face, use keyboard".

Aug-29-11		Thanh Phan: <Domdaniel: "Save face, use keyboard".> Cute! And all I use keyboard for after dark are Pillow, when I can't see to type, lol explains the Alt + F5 imprint

Aug-29-11		mworld: Annie, I have to thank you. I am always on the search for rare gems, and every 100 reads or so I find one. Eclipse of the Crescent Moon is one of those rarest of rarests because it not only is historical fiction at its best, but also a piece of history in and of itself. Thank you!

Aug-29-11		Annie K.: <Switch>, dear, I have to remind you that you have a cat avatar too... ;) Heh - the :s smiley is one I usually use to express a bemused/incredulous/frustrated/"don't shoot the messenger" tone. Thing is, a lot of message boards with the old UBB and similar codes used to allow typing out such emoticon shortcuts, that would turn into graphic smileys upon posting... so everybody who had these boards "in common" would have a good idea what they "meant". Something like the one in the bottom row second column here: http://addons.miranda-im.org/files/... or top row fourth column here: http://www.themesdb.com/screenshots... <dakkie> I think the word you're looking for (with 'entities') is 'attributes'? :) <Dom> indeed, one is not supposed to use :p with a straight face. :p I missed you too, btw. :) <Word games are content. The difference is that the content is shaped by formal concerns, rather than the usual cultural, ideological, political, religious, and semantic ones (aka 'meaning').> Yes dear, but the thing is that this "content" is not on the level of a discussion about "meaningful" topics. In debate terminology, such word games would be the equivalents of personal anecdotes and ad hominem arguments. Or rather, ad lingua. This is what I mean by this being a basically monolingual fascination - there's this underlying assumption that these accidents of vocabulary carry any "profundity" at all, which is the mindset of one who, at some level, believes in the existence of THE ONE TRUE LANGUAGE. ;s Which is usually nonsense. Most puns can't be translated from their own language to another, or at least another outside of their own linguistic family. Which, in scientific terminology, means that your results are not reproducible, and thus are invalid. Puns, word games, poetry... are cute <toys>. But they carry little to no weight as actual communication. Which is still my preferred field. ;)

Aug-29-11		Thanh Phan: <Annie K.: Most puns can't be translated from their own language to another, or at least another outside of their own linguistic family. > Same for Poetry many times I note, or my mind fail at the translate. lol Also glad to see your return :)

Aug-29-11		Annie K.: <Dom: <Save face, use keyboard>> Heh! :D <Thanh> thanks. :) <mworld> very glad to hear you enjoyed it! It's one of my special favorites too. :)

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