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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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Jan-15-12		Domdaniel: <WannaBe> Nobody, but nobody, coulda put up with kvetching, griping, caterwauling and being shot from both sides for as long as you did. And with such fine good humor too. You did an amazing job, and anyone who doesn't appreciate that is just ... plain ... bloody ... unworthy. See you in that bar for that Scotch, eventually, eh.

Jan-15-12		Domdaniel: Of course, the Chessbookie setup is just a dummy run for the day the law changes in the USA, and CG can become a real casino making real money. Just like the tobacco companies registered trademarks like 'Acapulco Gold' in case the Rasta Party came to power. Just diversification, is all. I'm not convinced that the Caissars can be so easily monetized ... but hey, it works for Uncle Oscar.

Jan-15-12		Domdaniel: <Annie Orthoepy> I found an old article about chess pronunciations which suggested that Gyozo V Forintos was 'foreign tosh'. Sez it all, rilly.

Jan-15-12		WannaBe: <Domdaniel> Thanks, I'll buy you a double scotch! Just catch me at the pub at the end of the Universe. p.s. Loved your D. Adams reference of your post at my place. =)

Jan-15-12		Annie K.: <Ohio: <Why should someone with a $3000 stake be allowed to bet more on a single game than someone with 1000?>> U no like capitalism?! ;) Heh. My only issue with the bookie is that the payoffs are often late - I had forgotten why I'd dropped out of the game for the most part way back, but having tried to return a bit more actively last leg reminded me. That was why. :\ Ah well. Complainers (and that's bloody <everybody>...) will complain. :p <Dom: <Sez it all, rilly.>> Heehee... and it's pretty good akshly! :D

Jan-15-12		tpstar: <Annie K.> Dangerous Jade! I love private jokes, as some of our brainiac friends wouldn't recognize a good showtune if it pulled their pants down. ;>D I was a beta-tester for the ChessBookie contest, then never played the game again. There was one unexpected problem with the Pick Three option where players would create 20 sockpuppet handles to win big on one account while losing everything on all the rest. They changed the software somehow to detect people using or creating multiple identities, but I don't know the details. You would be an excellent choice for the site awards, as you have more Moderating experience than anyone else, plus you were highly involved in making suggestions last time. I'm afraid the same ignore list problems would pop up again, and/or people would attack you knowing you couldn't put them on ignore. The best solution would be holding the next cycle on the Daniel Freeman chessforum, or else User: Snoochies which is another semi-private joke, so participants would be forced to behave. I had to make it happen ...

Jan-16-12		SwitchingQuylthulg: The ChessBookie betting caps exist for two reasons. Reason one is that they increase the skill factor; the amount of chessbucks a player can win with a single lucky bet is greatly limited, thereby favouring those who can beat the odds more consistently. Reason two is the cheating issue <tpstar> mentioned; such multi-account-schemes (if still attempted) would have to involve accounts with betting caps of 200, rather than ones with effective betting caps of 1500 (all your initial money plus a c$500 loan), meaning less profit and less damage to the game. <OhioChessFan: I am not sure but I <think> some people have figured out how to game the system by borrowing enough money to make the bigger bets that wouldn't otherwise be available.> The system doesn't work that way. Your betting limit depends on two things - your credit rating and your net worth - neither of which can be increased by borrowing money.

Jan-16-12		OhioChessFan: <Switch> I have no problem with the initial 200 CB betting limit. I have a problem with the limit being raised after that-for some people. There is just way too much advantage given to the early leaders because of it. To be hovering around a 1000 CB balance, bet 200 each on 3 games, and lose major ground to someone with 5000 CB who can bet 500 on the same 3 games is patently unfair. Glad I was wrong about the borrowing money idea.

Jan-16-12		Domdaniel: <tpstar> Any system where X runs the Caissars out of Y's forum runs into the problem of vexatious posts and inability to delete them. It's not as if a password or code could be 'borrowed': the presence of the forum's official host is a prerequisite. Of course, to switch to a real-life example, it could be done. I have nobody on ignore and am unlikely to change this. My forum - since infamous as Frogspawn - actually started life as an analysis forum for the 1st Nickel game. But my experience then - of wheedling and canoodling people that I'd like to put on a slow boat to, er, Mindanao, of being nice as a job requirement, of having it consume all my waking hours and most of the semi-conscious ones ... well, never again. <twinlark> called it 'herding cats'. But Annie could use my forum, right? And I'd be on hand to zap vexatious posts? And if I missed any she could tell me via, er, instant messaging or pigeon post. If I remembered to check the pigeon loft. Ain't gonna work, Doc. And I don't think anyone really wants to be WannaBe's successor in any case. CG need to take it over, at least to some degree. What you want, perhaps, is this: <Put 'em back the way they was! They was dumb, they was heathen, But at least they was breathin', Put 'em back the way they was!> And I say: <You can always go back, but you can't go back all the way...>

Jan-16-12		OhioChessFan: <Dom: And I don't think anyone really wants to be WannaBe's successor in any case.> No doubt. This last dustup ensured nobody is going to want to take over. I was pretty shocked to see the ugly post that caused the ignore feature to be invoked.

Jan-17-12		kingscrusher: Annie I have a new pro-nun-ciation video for you to correct with your own dedicated videos at some point :) Haha Common Chess Word Pronunciation Issues #2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX1q... Sorry having some fun with this stuff right now!

Jan-17-12		kingscrusher: BTW Annie it has come to light that the Oxford English Dictionary recommends "Fian-chetto" rather than "Fian-Ketto". This would appear to fly in the face of popular current Youtube culture and apparent official origin respecting "Ketto". I believe (well I suppose..) the subtle issue here is that a lot of swear words in English have very hard "f--" and "k--" sounds, so perhaps this is why officially according to the Oxford English Dictionary "chetto" is the main variation - and "ketto" a side variation. This must come as a shocking devastating blow to the Youtube community where some popular channels seem to relish making use of "Ketto" which for me since the age of 7, I have not really heard before in Tournament chess. Please bear this in mind if you do a video about "Fianchetto" that locale concerns also have an influence on officially recommended pronunciation and because of this, the question has to be asked of the country origin of the Youtube commentator in question. :) Haha :)

Jan-17-12		kingscrusher: Why the Oxford English Dictionary is important - some background info: "The OED is one of the largest dictionaries in the world and the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language, tracing the use of more than 600,000 words over the last 1,000 years through 3 million quotations. The OED defines and illustrates how a word has been used, where it came from, when it first entered the language, and how its meaning has changed over time and around the world, by quoting from more than one hundred thousand modern and historical texts, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts, wills, cookery books, and blogs."

Jan-17-12		Thanh Phan: U.K. scientists find 'lost' Darwin fossils http://www.usatoday.com/tech/scienc...

Jan-17-12		Domdaniel: <scrusher> You know about 'coals to Newcastle'? Telling Annie about a dictionary is in the same general area. Your theory about the taboo-inflected English version of 'fianchetto' is innaresting, though I don't really believe it. I think Greta Scacchi used to have a similar problem. When in Rome, and all that.

Jan-17-12		Annie K.: <Dom: <<scrusher> You know about 'coals to Newcastle'? Telling Annie about a dictionary is in the same general area.>> Heh - thanks for that! :) Although to give Tryfon due credit, there was the time I was going 'hmmm, now what was the name of the architectural style that came after Romanesque - Gotique (Gothic) - not Renaissance - ...?', and he supplied 'Baroque', which was in fact the term that had slipped my mind. I haven't been that surprised in years! :D ;p <Tryfon> It's still FianKetto... :p that's an interesting theory about the swear words you got there, but I don't buy it either. :) And specifically for chess, last I checked, the term 'cheater' (notice that ch sound in there?) wasn't exactly a compliment either! ;) Glad to see you're having fun though. :D

Jan-17-12		Annie K.: <Thanh> thanks, another interesting link! <Switch> thanks for weighing in on the Bookie. :) <tpstar: < [...] wouldn't recognize a good showtune if it pulled their pants down. ;>D >> Well, I dunno about that, Tony. :) I suspect most of them would. They may not admit it, though. ;p <You would be an excellent choice for the site awards, as you have more Moderating experience than anyone else, plus you were highly involved in making suggestions last time. I'm afraid the same ignore list problems would pop up again, and/or people would attack you knowing you couldn't put them on ignore. The best solution would be holding the next cycle on the Daniel Freeman chessforum, or else User: Snoochies which is another semi-private joke, so participants would be forced to behave.> Heh, pity Snoochies isn't posting anymore. No idea why you (and <Dom>) seem to be assuming that I couldn't handle misbehaving posters, though? :p You don't <get> to be a mod by being a fragile little flower, yanno. ;) Seriously, though, I really, really, REALLY, would strongly prefer for Daniel to take the Caissars over and run them automatic poll-style henceforth. That would be by far the best solution, for all sorts of reasons. And I agree with <Jess> that the really site-wide exposure that such a poll would get would eliminate bloc/clique/whatever voting issues more efficiently - and fairly, at that -than anything else attempted. Have I said too much...? ;)

Jan-19-12		Thanh Phan: Readings from the Crystalinks pages I was distracted for a day, lol Crystalinks Home page http://www.crystalinks.com/index.html Ancient and Lost Civilizations http://www.crystalinks.com/ancient.... 2012: A Space Odyssey http://www.crystalinks.com/2012aspa... Great Pyramid Statistics http://www.crystalinks.com/gpstats.... Valley of the Kings http://www.crystalinks.com/valleyki... Oldest-Known Astrologer's Board Discovered http://www.crystalinks.com/astrolog...

Jan-20-12		Annie K.: Thanks, <Thanh>, I'll catch up with all that tomorrow I hope. :) <The Ulvestad Gambit>: an old favorite. It's how to counter the would-be Fegatello line... :D [Event "FICS rated blitz game"] [Date "2012.01.21"] [White "NN"] [Black "AnnieK"] [WhiteElo "1257"] [BlackElo "1462"] [TimeControl "600+0"] [Mode "ICS"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 b5 6. Bxb5 Qxd5 7. Bxc6+ Qxc6 8. O-O Bb7 9. Nf3 e4 10. Re1 O-O-O 11. Ne5 Qd5 12. Ng4 Bc5 13. Nc3 Qf5 14. Ne3 Bxe3 15. fxe3 Ng4 16. Rf1 Qg6 17. a4 Nxe3 18. Qe2 Nxf1 19. Qxf1 Rhe8 20. b4 e3 21. dxe3 Qxc2 22. Ra3 Rd3 23. Qf5+ Kb8 24. Nb5 Qxg2# 0-1

Jan-25-12		Thanh Phan: What if there were another advanced species? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4607617... Would we break bread with our brainy cohabitants or be locked in a constant battle for supremacy?

Jan-25-12		Thanh Phan: I Can't Stop Drinking The Coffee ~ http://lolsnaps.com/12049/0/I-Can't... lol

Jan-25-12		Thanh Phan: http://www.cad-comic.com/images/gam... interesting read if find the time

Jan-27-12		Domdaniel: <A> I'm off to play in another chess tournament now. If you seek a photographic oddity, check your email. ;)

Jan-27-12		Annie K.: <Dom> much grass!! =) <Thanh> thanks for those. Loved the story - seems to be the direct continuation of that comic (http://v.cdn.cad-comic.com/comics/c... - copying here for reference) and very fun reading. :)

Jan-28-12		Domdaniel: All going according to routine, if not plan. 2/2 with Black and, er, 0.5/2 with White. I should just play 1.a3 and pretend I'm playing Black.

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