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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-19-11		Thanh Phan: <twinlark> To allow the activity of risk taking to keep us <somatically aware and feeling "alive"> brings us more closer to allowing exterior forces stimulating ourselves and less on the actual full awareness goal that you appear to seek Some thoughts toward your goal, by reading some from Ānāpānasmṛti Sūtra wiki for a minor overview http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anapan...

Oct-19-11		Thanh Phan: Had a second thought on living beings "if it is self aware" definition Many/most react to musical tunes/tones even if they fail to listen to the actual lyrics A hospital monitor of people after listening to http://youtu.be/AIvXxU7aqf4 has noticeable different outlook or current feelings of energy or energy then when they listened to http://youtu.be/aEZjP1HzATE ~ Used a German series of music, any language of songs with similar tones or feelings when listening to, could be used for such experiment if wish

Oct-19-11		visayanbraindoctor: <twinlark: What's the difference, if we can't tell the difference, much like the question about whether an exact copy can't be said to be the original (beam me up!)? > This is the Turing test argument. Crichton's Timeline also explores the theme of 'beam me up Scotty' replicates, except they are beamed to an alternate universe with a different timeline. The original is destroyed, but if a replicate is exactly the same, what's the difference? This is a recurrent theme in many sci-fi stories. For example in 'The 6th Day' film and in certain Star Wars space opera stories, the theme recurs in the form of nearly exact clones stamped with the exact memories of a previous clone.

Oct-19-11		twinlark: <The original is destroyed, but if a replicate is exactly the same, what's the difference?> Thinking this through a little bit more, it's hard to see how this can ever be other than a theoretical or philosophical question: how can a measurement be made of such a phenomenon at the level of complexity of a human organism, with all its memories and attributes? Even the concept of "identical" has to be approximate at the level of implementation, as philosophical or mathematical purity wouldn't suffice due to the fact that we aren't the same person we were a year, a month, a day or even a second ago. A measurement to prove a person identical to their predecessor would have to be take to infinite decimal places between two moments, something that would be too much even for a quantum computer. If the measurement were to be less exact or to take more time, then it necessarily becomes a matter of close enough being good enough. I'm not sure I'd ever subscribe to the possibility of even being partially lost in translation, unless it was a matter of last resort for maintaining any sort of continued existence.

Oct-20-11		Annie K.: <The original is destroyed, but if a replicate is exactly the same, what's the difference?> It makes no difference, or every difference in the world - as a matter of POV. If you are an outside observer, it makes no difference. If you are the new copy, it makes little difference. If you are "the original"... you die, and nothing further (such as the construction of another person, however honestly <they> think they are you) is relevant. This is the theme vividly underscored by 'Think Like a Dinosaur', which I will probably write up here when I get around to it. ;) But the POV of "the original" - subjective as it admittedly may by - is really the only one that matters, because all these consciousness transfer ideas are really, at the deepest level, motivated by the old, and supremely powerful, human self-preservation instinct, aka the search for immortality. So, however we may try to gloss over the part about 'the original dies' as a "little technical detail" in these themes... they are, when looked at closely, actually failures in this primary drive. They only confuse the issue from the POV of loved ones, who may be distracted from mourning, since there is <another person> around, looking and acting like the one who is gone, even believing that they are the same person... rightfully, inasmuch as they certainly aren't anybody else, from their own POV. But all this doesn't, again, change the fact that the original individual died; there is no immortality down that path.

Oct-20-11		Annie K.: <twinlark: <Annie K. <Is living out a routine actually self-awareness, just because the subject is a biological human?>> Interesting question, as it hits uncomfortably close to where we live. But seems to me that the alternative of not living out a considerable amount of routine is to be constantly doing something new and original, stretching and expanding one's capacity for mental and possibly physical activity.> I think I agree with Thanh here: depending on outside stimuli is not the only way to activate our awareness, is not even necessarily a valid way. Introspection, self-examination, a constant questioning of <why> we really feel, respond, act, as we do, an unflinching awareness of our own underlying motives and drives, then choosing our own values consciously, and living by them, instead of allowing ourselves to be governed by nature-or-nurture "programmed" responses, would be much closer to my idea of self-awareness. :)

Oct-20-11		dakgootje: I suppose you can't define identical with regards to bodies. After all, you'd exactly have to measure [amount, place in time] all cells. Moreover, you have to exactly do the same to molecules. And smaller. Which gives rise to problems due to the uncertainty principle. How to define identicalness then - responses to stimuli? After all, if you have exactly the same conditions, give exactly the same stimuli - and get exactly the same responses. Can we not suppose the subjects are the same? Of course, it could be coincidence - but given innumerable stimuli, this chance could be made unfathomably small. Problems here are of course knowing how much to test - and the speed would be dependent on the subject. Having lots of stimuli means the test takes very, very long. -- It's interesting with objects, buildings et cetera as well. A beautiful 400-year old painting might be invaluable, but as soon as someone confesses to have forged it.. The worth is gone - even though even experts might not be able to tell the difference. So presumably everything depends not on what it is - but what we think it is, what it represents. So getting back to the beaming-story, supposing beaming would exist. Assuming furthermore somehow it was proven people were indeed first destroyed, and then build up once more as exact replicas. I'd bet people would barely want to use it anymore. Even if it was shown they'd still be the same - merely due to the idea they would be different. -- anyway, a more important question is: When did this forum because a place for serious, long, thought-out posts??

Oct-20-11		Annie K.: <dakkie: <anyway, a more important question is: When did this forum become a place for serious, long, thought-out posts??>> It's an incurable chronic condition, with occasionally recurring acute flare-ups, akshly. My apologies for the inconvenience. :p Also, you seem to have missed reading my recent posts before posting yours... meaning that you took a long time to write it, as a proper procrastinator should. Congrats on that. ;)

Oct-20-11		dakgootje: <Also, you seem to have missed reading my recent posts before posting yours...> I have indeed. Wondered for a bit whether I could make a distinction between measuring bodies and responses. Would flirt a bit with a body/mind-duality, wouldn't it? Or would it. Concluded there'd be a difference - as the focus shifts from what it is, to how to behaves. Which makes the distinction tolerable. After posting I saw your posts, thought about writing an addendum - but went to eat something instead. When in doubt: eat something.

Oct-20-11		twinlark: Hey Annie Maybe we should keep the heavy duty philosophical and ontological discussions on my page, and book discussions here? Though one tends to lead into another... BTW - did the hippie roses alight in good health?

Oct-20-11		Annie K.: <dakkie> good advice, that. :) <twinlark: <Though one tends to lead into another...>> They do, heh. I also read your forum, to be sure. Here is where we cite SF stories for reference, instead of research papers? ;) <BTW - did the hippie roses alight in good health?> They did, thanks very much!!! I've been taking <dakkie>'s advice with regards to... :D I'll catch up with mails later today, too. <visayanbraindoctor> please check your mail for some reading material! ;)

Oct-20-11		Benzol: <Annie> <twinlark> Just wonder if either of you have seen or read Jerome Bixby's work The Man From Earth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ma... Bixby also wrote the Star Trek episodes Requiem for Methuselah (a similar idea to The Man From Earth), Mirror Mirror and Day of the Dove.

Oct-20-11		Annie K.: <Benzol> I haven't read Bixby, but the long-lived protagonist is a familiar theme. Zelazny also used it frequently, as did Heinlein, and many others. I've seen the ST episodes. :)

Oct-20-11		twinlark: <Benzol> I've seen the Man From Earth three times. Great movie, well thought out and convincingly portrayed.

Oct-20-11		Shams: "Man from Earth", "Man Who Fell to Earth", and "Brother from Another Planet" walk into a bar...

Oct-20-11		twinlark: ...and order a round of pan-galactic gargle blaster. The Man From Earth took a sip and said...

Oct-21-11		jessicafischerqueen: "Which one of you bastards called this bastard a bastard?"

Oct-21-11		jessicafischerqueen: (Hi Annie!) It's <Benzol> told me about that line, I thought it might make a good punchline.

Oct-21-11		Annie K.: It's perfect, thanks Jess! :D I'm stuck at a Bat Mitzvah right now, will be late afternoon by the time I get home and can post with a decent keyboard. Hope the battery will hold out until then, so I can at least get in some proper lurking, otherwise I may bite somebody... Meanwhile behave yourselves, folks. ;)

Oct-21-11		Benzol: <Which one of you bastards called this bastard a bastard?> He then said "I'm feeling masochistic read some Vogon poetry to me" When he finally woke up...

Oct-21-11		twinlark: ...the captain was still reciting poetry and in a vain attempt to distract himself from all this senseless destruction, he started banging his heads together before he realised he only had one head and so he started gnawing his leg off instead...

Oct-21-11		Annie K.: He still had six legs left, when the poem, mercifully, ended. Excusing himself from attending dinner, for lack of appetite, he went and stared at the twin moons of his planet, which just then...

Oct-21-11		SwitchingQuylthulg: ...were on opposite sides of the sky, causing him to again regret the lack of further heads. The interplanetary catering industry...

Oct-21-11		Annie K.: ...shuttle landed nearby, with the surprise dessert, jellied K'run-chee skulls. The properly prepared skulls of the K'run-chee, once the dominant race of the neighbor planet's southern hemisphere, were considered a prized delicacy; deciding that maybe he could still muster some appetite after all, he walked back inside to join the party.

Oct-21-11		twinlark: Helping himself to a K'runn-chee bar, Looc took advantage of his new found symmetry, and his aversion to the Bugblatter Beast of Tra'al that had just eaten his grandmother and was trying to chat him up, to enter an impromptu race around the sprawling tavern that occupied six city blocks. Legs pumping furiously, Looc's hangover prevented him from targeting the steeds of the race riders with his optical lasers to even the odds. Just then, he heard a familiar sonorific, grandfatherly voice intoning: "Use the horse, Looc, use the horse."

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