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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-03-12		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> Congratulations on making the top 10 this Bookie leg! Unlike some people :)

Oct-03-12		Annie K.: <Switch> thanks! :D Yes, I think <dakkie> isn't even speaking to me anymore... ;(

Oct-03-12		dakgootje: Only if you managed to secude Lady Luck, causing her to leave me. Congrats on clinching a top-10 spot :)

Oct-03-12		Annie K.: <dakkie> naw, I wouldn't steal your Lady. ;) Thx! :)

Oct-08-12		Annie K.: ... and, while Carlsen is showing Caruana how it's done, I'll show off a game against one of the most ineffectual opponents I have played to date... :p [Event "FICS rated blitz game"] [Date "2012.10.08"] [White "NN"] [Black "AnnieK"] [WhiteElo "1349"] [BlackElo "1489"] [TimeControl "600+0"] [Mode "ICS"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. d3 Nc6 3. Nf3 Bc5 4. Be2 d6 5. Bg5 Nge7 6. Nc3 Qd7 7. Bxe7 Nxe7 8. Qd2 a6 9. Qg5 Ng6 10. Nd5 c6 11. Ne3 h6 12. Qg3 O-O 13. Nf5 Qc7 14. N3h4 Kh7 15. Nxg6 fxg6 16. Ne3 Be6 17. O-O Rf6 18. Bg4 Bf7 19. Bh3 Rf8 20. Ng4 Rf4 21. c3 Be6 22. Kh1 Bxg4 23. Bxg4 Bxf2 24. Qh3 Qb6 25. b3 Qc5 26. c4 Qd4 27. Rad1 Qb2 28. Bf3 Bc5 29. Qd7 R8f7 30. Qe6 Qxa2 31. Rb1 Qc2 32. Rfd1 h5 33. h3 R4f6 34. Qc8 Qf2 35. Rf1 Qg3 36. Qd8 Be3 37. Be2 Bf4 38. Bf3 Qh2# 0-1

Oct-10-12		jessicafischerqueen: What ho!~ You may be horrified to learn that my TOP SECRET Magyar book has finally arrived in Korea. I haven't read it yet, but I'm certainly looking forward to it. It's a historical novel! On other good news, Sergey has sent me the last of the TOP SECRET work he's done and good heavens you can see why he gets the big money. You can't imagine how meticulous and thorough he is- he is not only Academic Standard, he's high level Academic Standard. A real scholar, thanks again for putting me in touch with him.

Oct-10-12		Annie K.: Hey, <Jess>! :) Kewl - yes, of course it's a historical novel, did you think we hand out honorary Hungarian memberships for reading some thriller or chick lit? ;p That's great, I saw Sergey two weeks ago at a restaurant (he and his wife came up north for his father's birthday), he told me he was procrastinating about something he owed you. His wife says that's the most fun he had with work in years. :D And you may have gotten him into chess as well - at least we spent much of the time watching the London Grand Prix games on my iPhone... well done, well done.

Oct-11-12		dakgootje: <did you think we hand out honorary Hungarian memberships for reading some thriller or chick lit?> ...aaaaand that's another bucket list item I won't manage..

Oct-11-12		Annie K.: <dakkie> oh, come on, try... :D I trust you can figure out which novel? ;)

Oct-12-12		dakgootje: Of course I can - my knowledge of Magyar historical novels is the toast of the town! However, I wouldn't like to brag.

Oct-12-12		Annie K.: <dakkie> yep, I feel that way m'self. I mean, ok, I'll do it, but I won't like it. ;p

Oct-12-12		dakgootje: Yup - but you know how it is. <Someone>'s gotta do the dirty work.

Oct-12-12		Annie K.: That is so, that is so. :]

Oct-12-12		SwitchingQuylthulg: Bragging, I feel, is one of the basic human urges, something an inner voice tells nearly all of us to indulge in, often against the better judgement of the brain. Bragging is to the ego what food is to the stomach. Even when we manage to keep our mouths shut and appear to resist the urge, it probably just means we're doing it more privately - that is to say, we're bragging to ourselves. We almost invariably turn to ourselves in the absence of any other people to brag to, and indeed, we often do so anyhow. Actually, I think it's quite healthy to brag to other people every once in a while. Bragging to oneself, highly common as it is, is ultimately just a less satisfactory substitute to the real thing and serves no actual purpose save for making one feel better for a while. Also, the absence of interaction with other people may make one fall in love with oneself and go blind to painful truths. On the other hand, there are many sad examples showing we should not overindulge in bragging to others, either, and definitely not without any regard as to whether the other people are actually willing to listen. It would seem that bragging, like so many good things, is only good in careful moderation; indeed, excessive modesty seems far better than excessive bragging, unless you really want attention from the tabloids. And yes, <Annie> and <dakkie>, I rather think you <do> like to brag, even if it makes you feel a little bit guilty. :s

Oct-12-12		Annie K.: <Switch> Heheheh... extremely well put. :D

Oct-12-12		Thanh Phan: <Annie K.> I harbor few Doubt that my limited chess ability has increase, with many thank toward you ^.^ every day even if away was a bonus knowing there was many new things to learnen ^.^

Oct-12-12		Annie K.: <Thanh> oops - go find your avatar again! :)

Oct-13-12		Thanh Phan: <Annie K.> Once again I gather most thanks towards you, are most kind to allow me to learn the game the chessgames way, an offering of many thanks ^.^

Oct-13-12		dakgootje: I'd like to formally state I'm no bragosaurus. Even though that would've been the coolest saurus - until it was eaten obviously.

Oct-13-12		Annie K.: <Thanh> you're welcome, of course. :) <dakkie: <until it was eaten obviously>> ... and one day we'll find its sunglasses, to prove it!

Oct-13-12		Annie K.: Some nice subtleties in this one - ok, I'm about as subtle as a sledgehammer, so that's relatively speaking... ;p [Event "FICS rated blitz game"] [Date "2012.10.13"] [White "NN"] [Black "AnnieK"] [WhiteElo "1502"] [BlackElo "1466"] [TimeControl "600+0"] [Mode "ICS"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 h6 4. Bc4 d6 5. O-O Nc6 6. d4 g5 7. c3 Bg7 8. Nbd2 Nge7 9. a4 O-O 10. a5 Bg4 11. Qb3 b6 12. axb6 axb6 13. Rxa8 Qxa8 14. Qa2 Na5 15. Bd3 Be6 16. d5 Bg4 17. Nb3 Nxb3 18. Qxb3 Qa7 19. Qb5 f5 20. exf5 Bxf5 21. Bxf5 Nxf5 22. Bd2 Qb7 23. h3 Ng3 24. Re1 Qc8 25. Qd3 Re8 26. Qg6 Rxe1+ 27. Nxe1 Qa6 28. Qe6+ Kh7 29. Kh2 Nf1+ 30. Kh1 Nxd2 31. Qf5+ Kg8 32. Qe6+ Kh8 33. Qe8+ Kh7 34. Kh2 Nf1+ 35. Kh1 Ng3+ 36. Kh2 Qf1 0-1

Oct-14-12		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> That <is> a very nice and illustrative game - your opponent never obtained any compensation for the sacrificed pawn, and in the end it was precisely that extra pawn on f4 that finished him off :) Quite a bit like this mouseslip adventure, in fact - well, except for the end... [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2012.10.14"] [White "NN"] [Black "Quylthulg"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "2020"] [BlackElo "2025"] [ECO "B00"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. e4 b5 2. Bxb5 e6 3. Nf3 Bb7 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. d3 Bb4 6. O-O O-O 7. Bg5 h6 8. Bh4 g5 9. Bg3 Bxc3 10. bxc3 d6 11. Rb1 Bc6 12. Qd2 Nh5 13. Nd4 Bxb5 14. Rxb5 c6 15. Rb7 c5 16. Nf3 Nc6 17. Rfb1 e5 18. Qe3 Rb8 19. Rxb8 Nxb8 20. d4 cxd4 21. cxd4 Nxg3 22. hxg3 Nc6 23. d5 Na5 24. Qxa7 Nc4 25. Rb7 Qe8 26. a4 Qd8 27. Rd7 Qe8 28. c3 Kg7 29. g4 Kg8 30. Rc7 Nb2 31. Qa6 Nxa4 32. Qxd6 Qb8 33. Nxe5 Qb1+ 34. Kh2 Qxe4 35. Nf3 Qxg4 36. c4 Nc3 37. Qg3 Qh5+ 38. Qh3 Qg6 39. Qg3 Ne2 40. Qe5 Qh5+ 41. Nh4 Qxh4# 0-1

Oct-15-12		Annie K.: <Switch> thanks! :) Well, I could have played Qf1 with mate next move (or a little later if he wanted to sack his Q with check first) on move 30 already, but I guess that just goes to show what a monster the Black N is on g3, supported by the infamous f pawn, ;) and what a totally helpless sitting duck the White K is in that corner. :D Very cute finish in that game of yours too. Knight Power! =)

Oct-16-12		Annie K.: OK, I gotta post this juicy bit of insanity... :D [Event "FICS rated blitz game"] [Date "2012.10.16"] [White "NN"] [Black "AnnieK"] [WhiteElo "1418"] [BlackElo "1484"] [TimeControl "600+0"] [Mode "ICS"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Bc5 5. Be3 Qf6 6. c3 Nge7 7. Bc4 Ne5 8. Be2 a6 9. O-O Qg6 10. Nd2 d6 11. f4 Bxd4 12. cxd4 Ng4 13. f5 Qh5 14. Bxg4 Qh4 15. Bf2 Qg5 16. h4 Qf4 17. g3 Qh6 18. Qe2 Nc6 19. Be3 Qf6 20. Nf3 h6 21. Bh5 Bd7 22. g4 O-O-O 23. g5 Qe7 24. Nd2 hxg5 25. hxg5 Nxd4 26. Bxd4 Qxg5+ 27. Bg4 Rh4 28. Nf3 Rxg4+ 29. Kh1 Rh4+ 30. Nxh4 Qxh4+ 31. Kg2 Bc6 32. Rae1 Rh8 33. Rh1 Qg5+ 34. Kf3 Qxf5+ 35. Ke3 Qxe4+ 36. Kd2 Qxd4+ 37. Kc1 Bxh1 38. Qe7 f5 39. Qe6+ Kb8 40. Qxf5 Rh2 (White forfeits on time) 0-1 I'm not claiming this game was in any way sound - I did have a general idea of tempting my opponent into throwing away his King cover, but then everything just came together soooo nicely - gotta love these games! ;p

Oct-16-12		Annie K.: Bloody King's Gambit seems to be in fashion again these days. :s Here's another one: [Event "FICS rated blitz game"] [Date "2012.10.17"] [White "NN"] [Black "AnnieK"] [WhiteElo "1468"] [BlackElo "1497"] [TimeControl "600+0"] [Mode "ICS"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 h6 4. Bc4 d6 5. O-O g5 6. d4 Bg7 7. c3 Ne7 8. Nbd2 O-O 9. a4 Nbc6 10. b4 Bg4 11. h3 Bh5 12. Qb3 Ng6 13. Nh2 Qd7 14. Ndf3 Kh7 15. Bd3 Kh8 16. Bb2 Nce7 17. Qc2 f5 18. exf5 Nxf5 19. Bxf5 Rxf5 20. Rae1 Raf8 21. Re4 d5 22. Re2 c6 23. Rfe1 R5f7 24. Re6 Ne7 25. Ng4 Nf5 26. R6e2 Bxg4 27. hxg4 Ne3 28. Rxe3 fxe3 29. Ne5 Bxe5 30. dxe5 Qxg4 31. e6 Qxe6 32. c4+ Kg8 33. cxd5 cxd5 34. Qd3 Rf2 35. Bd4 Rxg2+ 36. Kxg2 Qg4+ 37. Kh1 Qh4+ 38. Kg1 Qxe1+ 39. Kg2 Qf2+ 40. Kh1 Qf1+ 41. Qxf1 Rxf1+ (White resigns) 0-1

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