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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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Nov-18-12		jessicafischerqueen: <Annie> as always, I think actually reading the material is optional. Step One: Collect materials Step Two: ? Step Three: Profit

Nov-18-12		jessicafischerqueen: <Thanh> thanks for that TOP SECRET HUNGARIAN BOOK reference- I actually bought it, and may even read it when it arrives.

Nov-19-12		Thanh Phan: <jessicafischerqueen> That is one of the book types I like also, I think I will try to get it soon since it seems interesting :) <Annie K.> Reading books? When they can be used to prop your monitor up? Also you could try build one of these http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/... since winter is here ^.^

Nov-19-12		Annie K.: <Thanh> heh, thanks! :) <Jess> good meme - lessee: Step One: Collect materials - OK, check. Step Two: ? - I can figure this out if I concentrate, I think... Step Three: Profit - hmm... I don't understand this term. Oh well, I'll just skip that part.

Nov-19-12		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> You could delegate Step Three. I'm sure you could easily find helpful people willing to do the profiting for you, without even demanding anything in return :)

Nov-19-12		Annie K.: <Switch> good idea - aren't people wonderful? =)

Nov-19-12		WannaBe: Re: more Chinese pronounciation. We need to know/see the Chinese character in order to have the word spoke perfectly. So, if you have some nominees, let me know.

Nov-20-12		Alien Math: What names you look forward to?

Nov-20-12		Annie K.: <Hanh> (& <WannaBe>) the names of the Chinese players who are internationally known - these are the names people may want to know how to pronounce. We could start with all the Chinese women participating in the current knockout championship, plus Ruan Lufei, who isn't there, but I remember somebody asked about pronouncing her name. Then most likely a look at the top players in the current FIDE list for China will tell us who else. I'll try to assemble a more specific list this weekend. Also any "historical" names - I can think of Xie Jun, but WannaBe would probably know more about who else is worth a mention in that department than I do. BTW, Hanh and Thanh, would you like to contribute to the audio project with Vietnamese player names? :)

Nov-20-12		WannaBe: Okay, I see that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruan_L... have Chinese characters next to her name. Good, good... I'll go through the participants list of the K.O. Tournament and see what I can find/round up. Let me talk to my co-worker, and see if I can get her to help us out (again. =))

Nov-20-12		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> In the name of fun, I just played <1. e4> for the first time in years. I can't say I see why people love it so much... [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2012.11.20"] [White "Quylthulg"] [Black "NN"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [WhiteElo "1930"] [BlackElo "1975"] [ECO "B10"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. e4 c6 2. c4 d5 3. b3 dxe4 4. Bb2 Nf6 5. Nc3 Bf5 6. Nge2 e6 7. Ng3 Nbd7 8. Be2 Nc5 9. Nxf5 exf5 10. O-O Bd6 11. d4 exd3 12. Bf3 O-O 13. Re1 a5 14. Na4 Nxa4 15. bxa4 Re8 16. Rxe8+ Nxe8 17. g3 Be7 18. Qb3 Bf6 19. Qxb7 g6 20. Bxc6 Rb8 21. Bxf6 Nxf6 22. Qa7 Rb6 23. Qxa5 Qd4 24. Rd1 Rxc6 25. Qa8+ Kg7 26. Qxc6 Ne4 27. Rf1 d2 28. Qd5 d1=Q 29. Rxd1 Qxf2+ 30. Kh1 Qf3+ 31. Kg1 Qf2+ 32. Kh1 Qf3+ 33. Kg1 Qf2+ 34. Kh1 Qf3+ 35. Kg1 Qf2+ 36. Kh1 Qf3+ 37. Kg1 Qe3+ 38. Kg2 Qe2+ 39. Kg1 Qe3+ 40. Kg2 {Game drawn by mutual agreement} 1/2-1/2

Nov-20-12		Alien Math: Are thinking that might be need soon, some of many new names have Vietnamese names or heritage, wish our last mic was not put in washing machine from accident

Nov-20-12		SwitchingQuylthulg: Another 1.e4 experiment... <WannaBe> should like this :) [Event "rated lightning match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2012.11.20"] [White "Quylthulg"] [Black "NN"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2013"] [BlackElo "1823"] [ECO "B00"] [TimeControl "60"] 1. e4 Nc6 2. Ke2 e5 3. f3 d6 4. Kf2 Nf6 5. g3 h5 6. h4 Be6 7. Bh3 Qd7 8. c3 a6 9. d3 O-O-O 10. Be3 Kb8 11. Nd2 d5 12. b4 d4 13. cxd4 exd4 14. Bg5 Bxb4 15. Rb1 Bc3 16. Bxe6 Qxe6 17. Ne2 Rc8 18. Nc4 Nd7 19. Qb3 Nb6 20. Nxb6 cxb6 21. Qxb6 Rc7 22. Bf4 Rc8 23. Qxb7# {Black checkmated} 1-0

Nov-20-12		WannaBe: People still don't believe me, that the WannaBe Gambit is actually sound. =))

Nov-20-12		jessicafischerqueen: <Annie> I found your TOP SECRET analysis more convincing than mine, and I was relieved to do so. I'm such a hot-head eh?

Nov-21-12		OhioChessFan: http://o.aolcdn.com/dims-global/dim...

Nov-21-12		Annie K.: Thx folks! Moar commentz when I get home from work... :)

Nov-21-12		SwitchingQuylthulg: First rule of entertaining chess, also known as Tal's Uncertainty Principle: if you aren't sure what to do with a piece, sacrifice it. [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2012.11.21"] [Round "?"] [White "Quylthulg"] [Black "NN"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "1922"] [BlackElo "1821"] [ECO "A01"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. b3 e5 2. Bb2 f6 3. c4 c6 4. f4 Bd6 5. Nf3 exf4 6. e3 fxe3 7. Bd3 Ne7 8. Ng5 O-O 9. Bxh7+ Kh8 10. Qh5 Ng8 11. Bxg8+ Kxg8 12. Qh7# {Black checkmated} 1-0

Nov-22-12		Annie K.: 1. It seems to be that Thanksgiving thingy time again. So, Happy Thanksgiving to the folks who celebrate it. :) 2. I promised more comments when I got home from work. I didn't say on which day. :p Now lessee...

Nov-22-12		Annie K.: <WannaBe> kewl, thanks! BTW, for any extra info on Chinese players that the English Wiki page may be missing, you could try to load their English page, and then look for the equivalent page in the Chinese Wiki - in the 'Languages' section on the left. Also, please keep track of the Chinese script names you use, because I will also want to use them in the YouTube vids - provided I will have your and Liping's permission for that again, too. :) As always, the most important thing is to upload the audio to cg. <Hanh> I wish you girls would take a break from having all these incidents and accidents, and just try to have a nice boring time for a while... ;s I recorded most of my audios with my iPhone's 'Voice Memos' app, so if you have a smartphone, that would work too. Otherwise I guess we'll wait until you get another mic. :) <Jess> well yes, but you are improving at an alarming rate. You should write more often! =) <Ohio> that might indeed prevent injuries obtained during grooming. But what about the injuries obtained during trying to put the thing on?! 8s <Switch> thanks for those games. :D See, 1.e4 is not that bad! (Even if your post-first-move innovations do not greatly resemble 1.e4 chess as I know it...) Maybe you could even learn to like it in time? ;) Cute miniature, that last one. Heh.

Nov-22-12		OhioChessFan: I especially liked the "calming effect" claim.

Nov-23-12		Annie K.: I think that's for horses...

Nov-24-12		Alien Math: <Annie K.> Hope your weekend are well, Our luck maybe not the best, still harbor hopes for slow days ^.^ Wonder of the calming effect while attempting to make them wear it? :s

Nov-24-12		Annie K.: Heh. It is a fact that horses (particularly in cities) often have eye covers to limit their peripheral vision, because then they are less likely to get spooked by passing cars and whatnot. As for cats, when traveling with them in crowded places, it does help to cover their cage with some cloth - they feel safer, and so, calmer, that way. But I have my doubts as to whether being forced into that contraption would have a "calming effect", on all, most, or any, cats. :s OK, Chinese list all done! :) Alphabetically (only way I could be sure I wasn't repeating names that I got from different sources...): Ding Liren 丁立人 Ding Yixin 丁亦昕 Gu Xiaobing 谷笑冰 Huang Qian 黄茜 Ju Wenjun 居文君 Li Chao 李超 Li Shilong 李師龍 Liang Chong 梁充 Liang Jinrong 梁金荣 Lu Shanglei 卢尚磊 Ni Hua 倪華 Peng Xiaomin 彭小民 Shen Yang 沈陽 Tan Zhongyi 谭中怡 Wang Rui 王锐 Wang Yue 王玥 Wang Zili 汪子力 Wen Yang 温阳 Wu Shaobin 吴少斌 Wu Wenjin 吴文瑾 Xie Jun 謝軍 Xiu Deshun 修德顺 Xu Jun 徐俊 Xu Yuhua 許昱華 Ye Jiangchuan 葉江川 Ye Rongguang 葉榮光 Yu Shaoteng 餘少騰 Yu Yangyi 余泱漪 Zhang Pengxiang 張鵬翔 Zhang Zhong 章鍾 Zhao Jun 趙駿 Zhao Xue 赵雪 Zhou Jianchao 周健超 Zhou Weiqi 周唯奇 Zhu Chen 諸宸 Also a few names I couldn't find in Chinese alphabet: Guo Qi (uncertain - from unrelated source: 郭琪) Ma Qun Yu Ruiyuan

Nov-24-12		Alien Math: 郭琦 Guo Qi, 马群 Ma Qun, 余瑞源 Yu Ruiyuan, From http://www.xychess.com/web/viewarti... http://sports.sina.com.cn/go/2012-1... http://sports.sina.com.cn/o/2002-11... Notes the China Chess League http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_... gathers what team for search

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