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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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Mar-17-12		Annie K.: Hey there. What are you doing up at this hour?! :)

Mar-17-12		twinlark: Insomnia. That and the Bundesliga games being broadcast live.

Mar-17-12		Annie K.: Sounds like a functional combo... ;)

Mar-18-12		Annie K.: <WannaBe> just sent you a note. Would you like to repost that with less detail maybe? ;)

Mar-18-12		WannaBe: ??? Chinese tricky. Email me. Over. Out.

Mar-18-12		Annie K.: LOL!!! :D ok, gotcha! :)

Mar-23-12		hms123: <Annie> In re: Verdana I have been slow to learn to read it, but I finally got there. Thanks for the additional clarity.

Mar-23-12		Annie K.: <hms> thanks, and you're welcome. ;)

Mar-24-12		quantum.conscious: <annie k: So to say clearly: the person using the angslo / quantum.conscious handles has been a very, very, disturbed individual in his "angslo" era. This, btw, was also agreed on by tpstar, who entirely seriously advised him at the time to get counseling. When he more recently resurfaced as quantum.conscious, at first it looked like he may indeed have taken that advice. More recent posts, however, indicate that little, if anything, had changed, sadly.> that is disappointing to learn. however, i take responsibility if that is the impression you got (whatever the impression there is about me , i am the cause in the matter ) . i would just request you to keep an open mind for a while and perhaps you would change your mind again. have a nice day.

Mar-24-12		quantum.conscious: about what <switch> was saying , i posted in brankat forum. not that it matters much anyway :) take care :)

Mar-24-12		Annie K.: <i would just request you to keep an open mind for a while and perhaps you would change your mind again.> That would be nice. Good luck.

Mar-24-12		quantum.conscious: <Annie K.: <i would just request you to keep an open mind for a while and perhaps you would change your mind again.> That would be nice. Good luck. > thanks. i would finish my conversations in a few days (hopefully today itself) and then would be disease (i talked about this disease in tpstar forum ) free without going to rehab. and after that, over the time, you and others would change your mind about me, that is a promise. have a nice day :)

Mar-24-12		Annie K.: <quantum.conscious> I understand, but I wish you wouldn't direct what you have to say at Mark Finan. You both need to stay out of these things, but he more than you, or he will be banned. So please, give him a chance, and don't invite him to get himself in trouble.

Mar-24-12		quantum.conscious: <Annie K. : So please, give him a chance, and don't invite him to get himself in trouble.> i will try but no promise for next couple of days. :) however, i will sinceely try for Mark Finan sake (problem is, somehow, i am not feeling as kind towards Mark Finan as you. will try nonetheless ) :)

Mar-24-12		jessicafischerqueen: <Annie> hey ho! I realize that I have a woefully long history of impulsively posting angry and ill-considered accusations, only to apologize, aghast, 24 hours later. That's a fact, and in future I may or may not succeed in stopping or even just ameliorating this behavior. However, I would have preferred that you hadn't added this as a "support point" in your effort to get <dom> to take your point more seriously than he at first did. Your point about me is factual and I'm not averse to my behavior being criticized. I just would have preferred getting this particular criticism woman to woman, instead of as fodder used to get a point across to <dom>. However, given that it took two tries to get <dom> to understand how my behavior applied to your point (it does), I do understand why you did this and I can't really blame you for that.

Mar-24-12		Annie K.: Thank you, <Jess>. I do want to apologize to you for that - as you say, it was rather relevant, and I know you are always the first to admit it, but that doesn't mean it was nice to see that from me, and I am very sorry for the effect on you. It is truly great of you to understand.

Mar-24-12		jessicafischerqueen: It's no worries <Annie>, I knew you'd take my point seriously or I wouldn't have bothered to say it to you. As far as I'm concerned, for some time now we've enjoyed an honest and very fun (I might add) friendship that surely can survive a few bumps. I really appreciate your post though, means a great deal to me.

Mar-24-12		Annie K.: Likewise, <Jess>. And it's great to see you back here! :)

Mar-25-12		OhioChessFan: <JFQ: I realize that I have a woefully long history of impulsively posting angry and ill-considered accusations, only to apologize, aghast, 24 hours later.> That's part of your charm.

Mar-25-12		OhioChessFan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg5C...

Mar-25-12		Alien Math: South African, Chinese scientists get possible new lead in Peking Man fossils \| http://www.washingtonpost.com/world... JOHANNESBURG — The memories of a World War II-era Marine have renewed hopes of solving one of the greatest archaeological mysteries — the whereabouts of the lost Peking Man fossils, South African and Chinese scientists said.

Mar-25-12		Annie K.: Heh, thx <Ohio>. :) <Alien Math> that would be amazing, if they could find the fossils.

Mar-26-12		Annie K.: Somebody is going to be surprised. ;)

Mar-26-12		MarkFinan: Annie ??? Was it you who's paid my premium membership ?? That is soooooooo kind of you love, and apart from being shocked!!... Im really really touched! That is such a nice, caring thing to do, and i can't thank you enough :). I don't deserve it!! Nobody iv'e never met before has ever done anything as lovely as that for me, and i guess id kiss you if i ever see you lol.. Seriously, thats so lovely... So so sweet bless you.. I didn't even think you liked me!!! If you email me, i can thank you properly, but i really wouldn't have guessed! You're a lovely person really, and thats a lovely gift and i really do thank you love :) xx

Mar-26-12		Annie K.: <Mark> Welcome to my forum. And, well, yes.... :)

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