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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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Dec-18-12		Domdaniel: <Tall order, isn't it?> Hmm, yes, I perceive the difficulty. Prolly simpler just to have me put down, humanely.

Dec-18-12		Annie K.: Well, no, we wouldn't want that, aifinkso. :) Guess I'll settle for anything that doesn't make you a strangler, too much stranger, or a stranger. Moderate amounts of further strangeification, I can probably deal with. ;)

Dec-18-12		Domdaniel: It's been a strange year, even by my standards. Must be that Globville Worming or a baktun eclipsing a bardo.

Dec-18-12		Annie K.: Ah, all these marvelous end-of-the-world scenarios. Such a wealth of them, hard to choose. Just remember that <Ohio> is counting on us to give him ample warning (Domdaniel chessforum)! We must be strong, for <Ohio>. :) Go Carlsen! ;)

Dec-19-12		hms123: <Annie> <crawfb5> just left this end of times weather forecast for me. http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...

Dec-19-12		chancho: That's hilarious. (unless...it really happens)

Dec-19-12		MostlyAverageJoe: <Annie K.... Notice the Nuklu banner (probably a matter of seconds, as I happened to be browsing the site at the time) - take one look at the pic, mutter "snowdrop" > Good that you did not mutter "Galanthus" -- might have ended up in this game: S Galant vs D Hughes, 2008 :-)

Dec-20-12		Annie K.: <hms> thanks, very funny! :D <MAJ> heh - familiar flower, familiar tournament, connection obvious. Only thing I don't know, is when and where I picked up the English name for snowdrops, but it must have been long ago. :) Congrats on the dreidels klu. I would indeed probably have gotten it, if I hadn't been asleep at the time. The Hebrew alphabet letters are used quite commonly to represent their numerical values, far more than with the Latin alphabet. Trivia: Israeli dreidels have a "פ" (peh) instead of a "ש" (shin) on them, because the shin stands for 'nes gadol haya <sham>' - "a great miracle had occurred <there>", and in Israel the letters represent 'nes gadol haya <po> - "a great miracle had occurred <here>" instead. :)

Dec-23-12		shivasuri4: <chessgames.com:.... When adoresome won his won his 5th prize somehow a typo was introduced into the code that prevented anybody from claiming further prizes. (Argh!)> Is CG insinuating that <adoresome> was <somehow> lucky? :P

Dec-23-12		Annie K.: <shiva> thanks for that - I missed it at first, myself! LOL.

Dec-24-12		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> Merry Christmas! May Nuklu smile on you in the coming year :)

Dec-24-12		Annie K.: <Switch> thanks, and same to you! :) I'll do the forum rounds on New Year's - for now, let me just wish all of you a very Merry Christmas, or other holiday of your choice, from the safety of my own forum. ;D

Dec-24-12		wordfunph: Maligayang Pasko!

Dec-25-12		Check It Out: Merry Christmas, <Annie K>, you are so very awesome!

Dec-25-12		mckmac: Merry Christmas Annie! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgzW...

Dec-25-12		tpstar: <Annie> Happy Holidays! ;>D

Dec-25-12		The Last Straw: Merry Christmas! (And a Happy New Year!) :-)

Dec-25-12		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> Back in FICS action after a complete break during the Holiday Hunt... well, almost complete :-) [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2012.12.25"] [White "Quylthulg"] [Black "NN"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "1955"] [BlackElo "1953"] [ECO "A01"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. b3 e5 2. Bb2 Nc6 3. e3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Bd6 5. Ne2 O-O 6. Ng3 Ne7 7. O-O c6 8. Be2 Bc7 9. c4 d5 10. d4 e4 11. f4 a5 12. Nc3 g6 13. cxd5 cxd5 14. Rc1 h5 15. f5 h4 16. Nb5 Bxg3 17. hxg3 Nxf5 18. gxh4 Nxe3 19. Qd2 Nxf1 20. Rxf1 Ng4 21. Ba3 Qxh4 22. Qf4 Be6 23. Bxf8 Rxf8 24. Nc7 Bf5 25. Nxd5 Kg7 26. Ne3 Rh8 27. Bxg4 Bxg4 28. Nxg4 f5 29. Qe5+ Kf7 30. Qc7+ Kg8 31. Qb8+ Kg7 32. Qxb7+ Kg8 33. Qc8+ Kg7 34. Qd7+ Kg8 35. Qe6+ Kg7 36. Qe5+ Kg8 37. Nf6+ Kf7 38. Nxe4 Qxe4 39. Qxe4 {Black resigns} 1-0

Dec-25-12		chancho: Happy Holidays, <Annie>!

Dec-25-12		Annie K.: Thanks everybody, and backatcha! :) <Switch> I noticed that I didn't see you around there much lately! Kewl game. I also had many opponents who had trouble processing the idea that the pawn in front of their King is useless as a defender when there's a Rook sitting opposite it. Always fun. :D

Dec-26-12		The Last Straw: Have you recently had trouble accessing queenalice?

Dec-26-12		Annie K.: Just tried - it's down. BTW, you can use this tool to check these things: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.... :)

Dec-26-12		crawfb5: I've been unable to log into QA for the entire day. I got a tournament invitation in the middle of the night and wanted to see who's involved.

Dec-26-12		The Last Straw: Thanks!

Dec-26-12		Annie K.: <Craw> hope it's nothing serious. When it gets back up, you could try suggesting to Miguel that he set up a Facebook, Twitter, or other domain-independent blog page, where he can keep his site members updated about what's going on at such times - if he hadn't done that yet. :) On other matters, I dunno, just one of these French games... ;p [Event "FICS rated blitz game"] [Date "2012.12.27"] [White "AnnieK"] [Black "NN"] [WhiteElo "1520"] [BlackElo "1311"] [TimeControl "600+0"] [Mode "ICS"] [Result "1-0"] 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Qb6 5. Nf3 Bd7 6. a3 Bb5 7. Bd3 Bxd3 8. Qxd3 c4 9. Qe2 Nc6 10. O-O Nge7 11. Ng5 h6 12. Qh5 g6 13. Qh3 Bg7 14. Nf3 Na5 15. Nbd2 Nb3 16. Nxb3 Qxb3 17. Nd2 Qc2 18. Qf3 b5 19. Re1 a5 20. Nf1 b4 21. axb4 O-O 22. bxa5 Nc6 23. a6 Rfb8 24. Ra3 Rb6 25. Ne3 Qd3 26. Rd1 Qb1 27. Ng4 h5 28. Nf6+ Kh8 29. Bh6 Qf5 30. Bxg7+ Kxg7 31. Qe2 Rbxa6 32. Rxa6 Rxa6 33. h3 Ra2 34. Qd2 Na5 35. Ne8+ Kh7 36. Nd6 Qd3 37. Qe1 Qc2 38. Nxf7 Rxb2 39. Ra1 Nb3 40. Rd1 Nd2 41. Ng5+ Kh6 42. Nxe6 Ne4 43. Qe3+ Kh7 44. Rf1 g5 45. Nxg5+ Kg6 46. Nxe4 Qxe4 47. Qg3+ Kh6 48. Kh2 Qg6 49. Qf3 Qe6 50. Ra1 Rb8 51. Ra5 Rd8 52. Qe3+ Kg6 53. h4 Rf8 54. Qg5+ Kh7 55. Ra7+ Rf7 56. Qxh5+ Kg7 57. Rxf7+ Qxf7 58. Qxf7+ Kxf7 59. g4 Kg6 60. f4 1-0

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