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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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Dec-12-11		playground player: <twinlark> In deference to our host, I won't bring up any religious points in this discussion. But I repeat my original question--which is, if you like, a "scientific" question--How does that happen? Where is the fossil evidence that shows feet evolving into fins? Can anybody show me that evidence? And what do those feet look like before they've fully evolved into fins? Do they still work just as well as feet, or is the animal that has evolved them now clumsy and handicapped on land? These are not religious questions. These are common-sense questions. They are also questions which I have never known Darwinists to be able to answer. Darwin himself anticipated finding the answers in the fossil record: so where are they? We don't see any fossils of some lizard "on its way" to becoming a pterosaur, or a little mammal "on its way" to becoming a bat. Instead, these highly specialized animals appear in the fossil record fully-formed. But the list of such examples is too long to go into here.

Dec-12-11		twinlark: There's plenty of evidence in the fossil record showing the transition between forms over the millions of years. Also worth remembering that all fossils are transitional.

Dec-12-11		dakgootje: I've read several years ago there are lizards which can be injected with a hormone. In reaction to that single hormone, its as if a switch flips, going from lizardy to a much more waterlike being, with fins and gills included in a matter of days. Now do note: this was several years ago, so I might have misremembered or unintentionally altered details. Will try to find a reference - as that is obviously much better than a mere anecdote.

Dec-12-11		dakgootje: Quick addendum: I think it was a normal lizard. But perhaps it was that fancy one with an impossible name like xolotl or something. Don't think it was though.

Dec-12-11		Domdaniel: Wow, long posts. Merry Zoroastermas, Annie, and may Nuklu bite. As a fossil, I thought I had to intervene. Not a Cetacean, true, but I've written about Moby-Dick recently.

Dec-12-11		dakgootje: Well, seems like it was the axolotl after all. Potentially changing from a stable and healthy life in this form: http://www.axolotl.org/images/anima... when injected with iodine [or rarely just naturally in the wild] to: http://www.axolotl.org/images/anima... via the following stages: http://www.caudata.org/forum/f46-be... Which is quite interesting. Thought it was the other way 'round. Of course there is a small chance it happens the other way around as well, but I melted both memories together.

Dec-12-11		Domdaniel: Was it not Wordsworth who wrote...? "I wandered lonely as an axolotl Amid a vale of broken bottles All right Officer, I'll come quietly."

Dec-13-11		playground player: <Domdaniel> "I wandered lonely as a clod/ just picking up old rags and bottles,/When on my weary way I trod,/I spied a host of axolotls..." --Mad Magazine, c. 1958 <twinlark> "Transitional" is surely in the eye of the beholder. To say that all animals are transitional forms robs the term of any possible meaning. As Gertrude Stein would have said, had she been a paleontologist, "An Ambulocetus is an Ambulocetus is an Ambulocetus." And of course Stephen Jay Gould, who was a paleontologist, often said "the dirty little secret of paleontology" is the total absence of transitional forms from the fossil record. To put it as simply as possible, we do not see fossils of feet turning into fins.

Dec-13-11		Stonehenge: "I think what McTeagle's pottery... er... poetry is doing is rejoining all the traditional cliches of modern pottery. No longer do we have to be content with Keats's 'Seasons of mists and mellow fruitfulness', Wordsworth's <'I wandered lonely as a cloud'> and Milton's 'Can you lend us two bob till Tuesday'... With Hungarian subtitles, I think :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5kC...

Dec-13-11		Domdaniel: <playground player> Thank you for the Mad Magazine version, into which I'd poured some Monty Python. Out of curiosity, why is it regarded as a bad thing to rob something 'of all possible meaning'? The notion that all animals are transitional forms seems eminently sane to me. It's like saying that all vehicles in motion on the motorway are in transition. You want to pin one down and give it vehicular essence.

Dec-13-11		playground player: <Domdaniel> It's just a matter of semantics. If the term "transitional form" is to mean something, it must be distinguishable from something that is not a transitional form. I understand the concept that all life forms are constantly in a state of evolving into something else. Understand it, but don't buy it. There are many life forms--most life forms, if you count bacteria--that have supposedly been here for millions and millions of years and haven't changed a bit: cockroaches, horseshoe crabs, gingko trees, tuataras, ceolocanths--I'm sure you can think of as many as I can. I don't believe in transitional forms. A living species is what it is.

Dec-13-11		Domdaniel: <pp> The trouble with that 'is what it is' concept is that it implies something like essences or platonic forms ... and where do you stop on the continuum from general to specific? Does every breed of dog count as a distinct entity? Every mutation in the DNA of a given species? We know so much about the subject of evolution now -- far more than Darwin ever dreamed. I'm astonished that anyone should still challenge the concept.

Dec-13-11		OhioChessFan: <Dom: Does every breed of dog count as a distinct entity? Every mutation in the DNA of a given species?> It seems to me you're asking the wrong person that question. The affirmation under discussion is <Also worth remembering that all fossils are transitional.> On a related note, if we dug up some horse fossils for the past few hundred years, we'd find an amazing transition/transformation of.......horses.

Dec-13-11		Domdaniel: <Ohio> True. And, if I recall correctly, the canonic evolutionary narrative from Eohippus to the Kentucky Derby turned out to be wrong. My interest is mainly in those platonic essences that seem necessary to think of a species as an unchanging and immutable 'thing'.

Dec-13-11		Domdaniel: Speaking as an unchanging and immutable thing myself, I wondered if we had anything in common...

Dec-13-11		Annie K.: <Dom> and a merry Nuklumas to you too. <I'm astonished that anyone should still challenge the concept.> I'm revolted. And I don't see why I should put up with nausea when reading my own forum. So enough already. <pgp> won't be posting here again - anybody with a Quixotic compulsion to attempt and educate the obstinate, take it to his forum. <visayanbraindoctor> your contributions are greatly appreciated, but please omit the references to what creationists may make of anything. I couldn't care less, and it only encourages them to try and gatecrash here. <Larks> thanks for the patience... ;) <Ohio: <Madam Annie, you had mentioned your dislike for religious discussion here. I understand if you would include creationist discussion in that umbrella and will stop if you want.>> I do, and I would appreciate that. :) <visayanbraindoctor> thanks for the news of the whale/dolphin classification. Absolutely amazing stuff! <dakkie> thx for the axolotl morphing links. Salamanders are the coolest little critters. :D <visayanbraindoctor: <I have already read Call of the Wild and White Fang.>> I love those too. Two of London's best works, and I'd count 'Before Adam' and the semi-autobiographical 'The Road' as the other two of his best. :) I believe they can all be found at the Sonoma site, 'The Road' was in the non-fiction section at last check. <Thanh> thanks for the very interesting links, as always, and happy holidays to you too. :)

Dec-13-11		Domdaniel: Hi, Annie. Go win one for this Gipper. That should be corr slanf for anyone with a Game-In-Progress ... "Oh, his head's in the clouds, he's a Gipper..."

Dec-13-11		Domdaniel: And he meant 'argot' but mistyped all five letters, coming dangerously close to 'slang'. Slanging matches are so over.

Dec-13-11		Annie K.: How... on... Earth... does 'argot' turn into 'slanf'?! =s Must be evolution. ;)

Dec-13-11		Domdaniel: Eh, I can turn 'argot' into chess... argot - griot - grist - trist - trust - crust - crest - chest - chess. Et voila. Or argot - ergot - takes LSD - slanf - slang. Simples. G'♘

Dec-14-11		Alien Math: <Domdaniel: Eh, I can turn 'argot' into chess... > Maybe include gold into lead? Plus some random searches \| Science Jokes:2. PHYSICS : 2.9 PHYSICAL ONE-LINERS http://jcdverha.home.xs4all.nl/scij... "God said let E MV2-Ze21 and there WAS Light" http://www.angelfire.com/sc3/fizisi... light explaining The Nerd Test, ver 2.0 http://www.nerdtests.com/ft_nt2.php

Dec-14-11		Domdaniel: <Alien Math> Thanks. I like Alexander Pope's version: "God said 'Let Newton be!' - and all was Light." And Wordsworth on a statue of Newton: "That marble index of a mind/ Forever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone." Nerd test, eh? Do I have to? I'm pretty sure I already have three Nerd Norms. Or Abnorms, as we tend to call them. ;)

Dec-14-11		Annie K.: <dakkie> Congrats!!! =) By way of reward, have a gift excuse: getting the earlier klus would have been too rash. Way too rash. ;) <Stonehenge> sorry, missed your post yesterday - thanks! <Alien Math> Lead into gold might be a more popular transformation. Gotta watch those vector directions! ;) <Dom: <argot - ergot - takes LSD - slanf - slang.>> Seems legit. :D

Dec-15-11		Domdaniel: Thanks, Annie. Thannie.

Dec-15-11		jessicafischerqueen: Happy Holidays <Annie>! I hope you get some vacation time coming. I re-post this recent entry to our website here since it might not come up on a "search kibbutz"- <And thanks are also due to Annie Keppel> Heh

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