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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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Nov-06-11		visayanbraindoctor: <Thanh Phan> Thanks for the links. Will read them when I am not busy.

Nov-06-11		Thanh Phan: Toward the right side of page has some Links toward studies of Neanderthal man ~ http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2...

Nov-06-11		Thanh Phan: The swarm of Homo sapiens onto the continent more than 40,000 years ago left the Neanderthals, who had thrived in the frigid conditions for 300 millennia, outnumbered by a massive 10 to one. The invasion of so many modern humans overturned the Neanderthals' domination of the land and forced them into fierce competition for food, fuel and other crucial resources. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2... ~ Are why I thought of the outnumbered theory~

Nov-06-11		Thanh Phan: So many links sorry! Find newser.com with many stories of Neanderthals ~ http://www.newser.com/tag/15288/1/n...

Nov-06-11		twinlark: <Thanh Phan> The Neanderthal flute is quite a find, and should lay to rest any notions about how "primitive" they were. I like the way the Archure built his own pictures his article about Neanderthals...both scientific and witty. I think I'll take some time out to look at these excellent links as well.

Nov-07-11		Thanh Phan: I was searching for things fast and found myself at this page :) http://themetapicture.com/intervent...

Nov-07-11		twinlark: Heh. A salutary lesson. :)

Nov-07-11		visayanbraindoctor: <Neanderthal make-up and flute> Amazing. Note the neanderthal features in the link by <Than>. They were nearly chinless and short-necked. They would have been very difficult to intubate. In the hypothetical case of comatose neanderthals brought to today's emergency room, it's likely that doing a tracheostomy on them would be easier than intubation; and even a tracheostomy would be relatively hard due to their short neck.

Nov-07-11		visayanbraindoctor: Regarding ehtics, since neanderthals were fully human, it would be murder to kill one deliberately without due cause. Chimps are so closely related to humans, for instance we have virtually the same blood circulating beneath our skins, that a case could be made that killing a chimp be regarded as murder. Dolphins have a brain to body weight ratio as large as ours. Killing them should be regarded as murder too.

Nov-07-11		twinlark: I'm not sure intelligence is the guiding principle behind determining human rights, which I understand to be protection against infliction of <unnecessary suffering>, although there is a clear and desirable general prohibition against all killings of human, generally speaking, especially if shorn of the myriad of caveats that infest modern domestic, religious and international law. Ethical vegetarians such as myself refrain from eating animal flesh of all descriptions because of the barbaric conditions in which many food animals are kept, and because of the equally barbaric slaughtering process which causes enormous systematic and industrial suffering amongst many species in the animal kingdom, especially animals sufficiently evolved to have nervous systems which can register pain. This is source from which the entire notion of animal rights spring, the notion that all sentient creatures should be spared unnecessary suffering inflicted by humans, which have sufficient cognition to understand the concept. Bottom line is, if we must kill animals for food, do so quickly and painlessly and away from the sight, hearing and smell of other animals of that species. Most animals, by the nature of their existence, have a strong sense of the imminence of death especially when it is being caused within the range of their senses, and especially to their own kind, quite enough to cause distress and suffering. The Cartesian attitude towards animals as biological robots has poorly served humans and non-humans alike. Our attitude toward the rights or otherwise of non-human beings exactly mirrors the early debates from a couple of centuries ago about whether women should have equality of consideration equality of rights: are they as intelligent as men, etc. I once had a baffling argument with a former member of this site, a highly intelligent PhD student (in maths), who could honestly not see the difference between killing and eating a cow, and picking and eating an apple. I suspect that if intelligent squid every landed, the military of that country would quickly acquire new technology and the leadership would just as quickly be dining out on exotic calamari. It's fortunate for both our species and anyone else out there that we haven't met, as contact would be disastrous. The point is that human chauvinism is as much a blight as sexual, cultural or religious chauvinism.

Nov-08-11		visayanbraindoctor: <twinlark: I'm not sure intelligence is the guiding principle behind determining human rights, which I understand to be protection against infliction of <unnecessary suffering>, although there is a clear and desirable general prohibition against all killings of human, generally speaking, especially if shorn of the myriad of caveats that infest modern domestic, religious and international law.. This is source from which the entire notion of animal rights spring, the notion that all sentient creatures should be spared unnecessary suffering inflicted by humans, which have sufficient cognition to understand the concept. Bottom line is, if we must kill animals for food, do so quickly and painlessly and away from the sight, hearing and smell of other animals of that species. Most animals, by the nature of their existence, have a strong sense of the imminence of death especially when it is being caused within the range of their senses, and especially to their own kind, quite enough to cause distress and suffering.> Nice summary. There seems to be two viewpoints, interestingly enough quite compatible with one another, regarding the idea of non-violence to animals. 1. Animals have souls. This is the view in some Eastern religions and philosophies. 2. Animals can feel pain, like us. I believe that some theological viewpoints regard animals as lacking in sufficient cognition such that they do not subjectively feel pain the way we do, and also lack souls; and therefore it is not a sin to kill them. This topic can take pages to discuss. Here is an interesting question: Which animals are we allowed to kill without being unethical or immoral? Which of these have sufficient cognition and self-awareness to feel pain like us? (Naturally if one assumes all these have souls, then it would be unethical to kill them without just cause.) 1. Sponge 2. Jellyfish 3. Sea star 4. Earthworm 5. Insect 6. Fish 7. Frog 8. Lizard 9. Chicken 10. Opossum 11. Shrew 12. Mouse 13. Cow 14. Pig 15. Dog 16. Seal 17. Whale/ Dolphin 18. Baboon 19. Gibbon 20. Chimpanzee

Nov-08-11		twinlark: <visayanbraindoctor> I reread my long post, and I noticed to my dismay that I've drafted part of it badly enough such that it could be read as a criticism of you. Rest assured, that is not the case at all.

Nov-10-11		WannaBe: Ad hoc have started. =)

Nov-13-11		Annie K.: <visayanbraindoctor: <However, it seems that after this early admixture, there was virtually no later interbreeding.>> While this would make some sense, given the later competition for resources, and therefore likely "strained relations" between the Neanderthals and modern humans in Europe, I thought there had been indications of late interbreeding (particularly the Lapedo child). I would be interested in seeing a source for the early interbreeding only theories? <twinlark> there have been some wildly varying assessments regarding the date of dog domestication. Here's one source: http://www.newscientist.com/article... And don't get me started on Robert Sawyer. ;) He's not bad, but the amount of plagiarism in the Neanderthal Parallax Trilogy really got on my nerves. :p

Nov-14-11		Thanh Phan: Ancient Bronze Artifact from East Asia Unearthed at Alaska Archaeology Site - http://www.sciencedaily.com/release... ~ Thousand year age item found

Nov-15-11		visayanbraindoctor: <Annie K. I would be interested in seeing a source for the early interbreeding only theories?> An estimated 1 to 4 percent of the DNA in Europeans and Asians (i.e. French, Chinese and Papua probands) is non-modern, and shared with ancient Neanderthal DNA rather than with Sub-Saharan Africans (i.e. Yoruba and San probands).[78] Genetic research now confirms that non-Africans are part Neanderthal,[79][80] due to interbreeding between Neanderthals and the ancestors of non-Africans in the Middle East. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neande...>

Nov-15-11		visayanbraindoctor: <Annie: "strained relations" between the Neanderthals and modern humans in Europe> This seems a viable hypothesis for the general absence of later interbreeding. In the Middle East, the climate is warm and there was probably more food available. Th two human subspecies could afford to be more friendly. In wintry Europe during the ice ages, competitors to scarce food resources might have been literally cutting throats. In most of East Asia, the Neanderthals never established themselves, and so whatever admixture would logically have been present early on, in the Middle East.

Nov-15-11		visayanbraindoctor: http://www.newscientist.com/article... "Interviews suggest 54 per cent were killed for food and eaten by local people." Family Hominidae members must share practically identical body proteins. Eating orangutangs is almost like cannibalism.

Nov-18-11		shivasuri4: <Bandar-log> <Annie K.>,that roughly translates to monkeys in Hindi.I am pleasantly surprised-how do you know Hindi,primarily an Indian language?

Nov-19-11		Thanh Phan: Native Writes - Neanderthals http://www.alamosanews.com/v2_news_... Another view on Neanderthals

Nov-20-11		visayanbraindoctor: I have read somewhere that Homo sapiens sapiens eventually developed 'advanced' cave art paintings; while Homo Sapiens neanderthalensis never did. I wonder if that implies that our immediate ancestors could do more abstract and complicated reasoning than their neanderthal cousins. If so, it could have also conferred an advantage in the planning of war strategies in case hostilities between the two arose. For instance, Homo sapiens sapiens strategists could have thought of intentionally starting fires in grasslands where the neanderthals hunted game, and the neanderthals never could think up of a similar strategy.

Nov-20-11		playground player: <Esteemed colleagues> I hope you don't mind my joining in. Pre-history is a favorite subject of mine. On the whole, Neanderthals had bigger brains than H. sapiens. We have no evidence of them painting: but if their art was something like music or story-telling, it wouldn't leave physical traces. I think the most fascinating thing about "cave paintings" is to compare them with pictorial art from a much later date--say, from just before the dawn of what we commonly recognize as Civilization. In terms of line, color, and execution, the "cave art" is light-years ahead of art that is supposedly many thousands of years newer. Aesthetically, it would not be equaled until Civilization was in full bloom. (Egypt, Mesopotamia, Indus Valley, etc.) Chalcolithic art, conventionally dated c. 5000 B.C., looks like the scrawlings of a kindergarten child. There's so much we don't know, and haven't been able to find out! Why is pictorial art so modern and masterful, virtually as soon as it appears in history? Why, later, is it so clumsy and childish? If Civilization is "wired in" for human beings, why did it (seemingly!) take so long to develop? And if it is not wired in, why did it ever develop at all?

Nov-20-11		Thanh Phan: Tribute to Cave Paintings http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2... Also http://www.redorbit.com/news/scienc...

Nov-20-11		Thanh Phan: Herzog shot the resulting film, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, in 3-D to capture the painters’ use of the contours of the walls. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news... ~ Might be of interest to see if able

Nov-21-11		visayanbraindoctor: <playground player: On the whole, Neanderthals had bigger brains than H. sapiens.> It's quite obvious from pictures in the internet. However, I am not certain if the Neanderthals had a larger brain to body ratio than Homo sapiens sapiens. They sported a heavier body. In addition, it seems from the pictures that most of the relative enlargement of neanderthals was their occipital bone. Presumably they had larger occipital lobes, the area associated with vision. Homo sapiens sapiens on the other hand seemed to have bigger frontal lobes- the area of the telencephalon associated with planning.

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