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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-27-12		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> Pity that your opponent resigned, it would have been fun to march those pawns up the board :) Your opponent's queen seeking refuge at b1 somehow reminds me of this... Ivanchuk vs Jobava, 2010 ...not sure why as the two aren't really all that similar, but that's not a game I mind being reminded of :) Here's my latest wild adventure: [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2012.12.27"] [White "Quylthulg"] [Black "NN"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "1998"] [BlackElo "1994"] [ECO "A01"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. b3 e5 2. Bb2 Nc6 3. e3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Bd6 5. Na3 Na5 6. Nc4 Nxc4 7. Bxc4 c6 8. d4 e4 9. Ne2 O-O 10. O-O Bxh2+ 11. Kxh2 Ng4+ 12. Kg3 Qg5 13. f4 exf3 14. Kxf3 d5 15. Nf4 Nh2+ 16. Kf2 Nxf1 17. Bxf1 Bg4 18. Be2 Qh4+ 19. Kg1 Bf5 20. Bd3 Bg4 21. Be2 Bf5 22. Bd3 Bd7 23. Qh5 Qxh5 24. Nxh5 Rae8 25. Re1 Bg4 26. Nf4 g5 27. Nh3 h6 28. e4 f5 29. e5 f4 30. c4 f3 31. Nf2 Be6 32. g4 h5 33. gxh5 g4 34. Kh2 Kg7 35. Kg3 Rh8 36. Rh1 Ref8 37. Bc1 a5 38. Bg5 a4 39. h6+ Kf7 40. Bf6 axb3 41. axb3 Ke8 42. Bxh8 Rxh8 43. h7 Kd7 44. Nxg4 dxc4 45. bxc4 b5 46. cxb5 cxb5 47. Bxb5+ Kc7 48. Bd3 Bd5 49. Nf6 Bb7 50. Be4 Bc8 51. Kxf3 Kd8 52. Kf4 Ke7 53. Rg1 Kf7 54. d5 Ba6 55. Bf5 Bc4 56. Be6+ Ke7 57. d6+ Kxe6 58. Rg8 Rxh7 59. Nxh7 Kd5 60. d7 Kc5 61. d8=Q Bxg8 62. Qxg8 Kd4 63. e6 Kc5 64. e7 Kd6 65. e8=Q Kc7 66. Qge6 Kb7 67. Q6c6+ Ka7 68. Qea8# {Black checkmated} 1-0

Dec-27-12		SwitchingQuylthulg: The commanding generals of the White army can't have been happy... the rest of them were doing their jobs splendidly, and then His Majesty the King showed up and spoiled everything :) [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2012.12.27"] [Round "?"] [White "NN"] [Black "Quylthulg"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1825"] [BlackElo "2010"] [ECO "B00"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. e4 b6 2. Nf3 Bb7 3. Nc3 e6 4. d4 Bb4 5. Bd3 Nf6 6. O-O Bxc3 7. bxc3 Nxe4 8. Ne5 d6 9. Qg4 dxe5 10. Bxe4 f5 11. Qxg7 Bxe4 12. Qxh8+ Kd7 13. Qxd8+ Kxd8 14. dxe5 Nd7 15. f4 Ke7 16. Ba3+ Kf7 17. Rad1 Ke8 18. Rf2 c5 19. Rfd2 Rd8 20. c4 Ke7 21. Bb2 Bc6 22. g3 h5 23. Kf2 h4 24. Rd6 hxg3+ 25. Kxg3 Rg8+ 26. Kh4 Ba4 27. R1d2 Rg4+ 28. Kh5 Nf8 29. Bc1 Be8+ 30. Kh6 Rh4+ 31. Kg5 Rh5# {White checkmated} 0-1

Dec-27-12		Alien Math: Several fun games, your opponents view appear as learning moments also possible surprise :) <Annie K.> The tool http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.... I find useful also

Dec-27-12		hms123: <Annie> I just went through the French game quickly. You missed an occasional shot, but really played well overall. I think you are getting the hang of playing against the French. Good for you. Bad for all of us French players.

Dec-28-12		Annie K.: <Switch> yeah, these royals mit der Vanderlust... bloody primadonnas. ;) Very cute game, that first one, too! In my game, marching the pawns up the board wasn't really an option anyway - I would have had plenty of time for it, to be sure, but my opponent was down to 8 seconds by that point. ;s Somehow, I don't mind being compared to Ivanchuk either! :D <hms> thanks, I probably did miss some tactics there, but I was really tired... ;) Here's another fun little game, just in: [Event "FICS rated blitz game"] [Date "2012.12.28"] [White "NN"] [Black "AnnieK"] [WhiteElo "1600"] [BlackElo "1532"] [TimeControl "600+0"] [Mode "ICS"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 a6 4. O-O Bc5 5. b4 Ba7 6. c3 d6 7. d4 exd4 8. b5 axb5 9. Bxb5 Ne7 10. cxd4 O-O 11. Bb2 Bg4 12. Be2 Ng6 13. h3 Bxf3 14. Bxf3 Qg5 15. Na3 Nf4 16. Kh1 Bxd4 17. Bxd4 Nxd4 18. Qxd4 Rxa3 19. Qb4 Rxf3 (White resigns) 0-1

Dec-28-12		Abdel Irada: Until I went to the <Domdaniel> chessforum, I completely misunderstood "ummigrate." In Arabic, "umm" means "people" or "community." Although Hebrew is a bit different (I think it uses "amm" rather than "umm"), my first thought was of migrating to one's people or community. Anyway, I'm a bit late discovering it, but great page. :-)

Dec-28-12		Annie K.: <Abdel Irada> Hi, and welcome! Drop by any time. :) 'Um' also means 'mother (of)' in Arabic, doesn't it? But in this context, I meant the English "um(m)". Yeah, Hebrew uses 'amm', although there's also 'umma' for 'nation', now you mention it. Who is Irada? ;)

Dec-28-12		Abdel Irada: Not precisely who, but what. It is the all-pervading Will as described, more or less, by Joseph Glanvill. As for the "um," it rather reminds me of an expression that my wife and I used to refer to one another when we first started dating: "umfriends," as in "We're ... um ... friends." You're right, incidentally, about the awkwardness with im-/emigrate. This is particularly difficult when writing from a third country. If I'm writing, in the U.S., of someone who moves from, say, Germany to Italy, has he/she immigrated or emigrated? "Migrate" won't do because it implies a temporary condition, suggesting that he/she will move back later, as we see with migrant workers or migrating birds. "Transmigrate," perhaps? I don't think this word exists, but it could be a useful neologism.

Dec-28-12		Annie K.: Ah, thanks. I noticed 'Irada' as a name a little while back - I think that's Spassky's sister's name. <"We're ... um ... friends."> Heh! I suppose one could use simply 'moved' from one country to another, as well. :)

Dec-28-12		Abdel Irada: One could. Although I suspect there are contexts where a more formal or precise word would be desirable.

Dec-28-12		Annie K.: 'Relocated'? ;) Generally, the choice of emigration vs immigration depends on which country is more in the speaker's focus. BTW, my use of "ummigration" was exactly in the same sense as yours and your wife's. :)

Dec-28-12		hms123: <Annie> While I mostly remember the earlier discussion at <Dom's> place, it occurred to me that prepositions have a role to play. Doesn't one <immigrate to> or <emigrate from>? It seems clear that a person could do one or the other and only mention one of the two countries involved. 1. X immigrated to Country A. 2. Y emigrated from Country B. One could of course be more specific.

Dec-28-12		Annie K.: <hms> yup, but you still have to choose which country you want to mention in your account, the same choice that will also determine whether you will be using 'emigrate' or 'immigrate' to go with it. Hence the focus is important. Even when speaking of a third person, as, say, a biographer would, they should know whether their subject's main motivation was to <go to> that particular place B, or to <get away> from that particular place A. Which brings us right back to an even older discussion we've had here, about types of ummigrants: the refugee - now finally revealed as "the emigrant" - vs the "better lifer", newly exposed as "the immigrant". ;)

Dec-28-12		hms123: <Annie> In short, it all depends on what you mean to mean. It is always thus.

Dec-28-12		Annie K.: That's exactly what I meant. ;)

Dec-28-12		Abdel Irada: <BTW, my use of "ummigration" was exactly in the same sense as yours and your wife's. :)> Yes, I learned as much from <Domdaniel>'s page.

Dec-28-12		Annie K.: :) ...and the previous discussion mentioned you can find on the earliest pages of this forum - about page 10, I think. Or just feel free to read the whole forum... ;)

Dec-28-12		OhioChessFan: I don't wish to cause an uproar on your page if you don't want it. I happened to read some of the goings on from page 10 and was reminded of a conversation I had with my brother Christmas Day regarding the historical antecedents of current cultrual problems. I suppose you can work out where that is going and I am happy to defer to M'Lady as to whether She would like it expounded on here.

Dec-28-12		Abdel Irada: I just glanced through some of the <City of Moscow> posts. Really quite unbelievable treasures secreted on this site. (Although, thanks to Google, nothing is ever truly hidden. Our every word is recorded, indexed and searchable from now until the end of time. Or at least the end of the internet. Whichever comes first.)

Dec-28-12		OhioChessFan: <I just glanced through some of the <City of Moscow> posts.> I have some emails saved in my AOL inbox from over 5 years ago regarding a story I started and never finished. Every 6 months or so I think I need to finish it up. Not sure how relevant Kasparov is any more. There are some supremely funny posts on that page.

Dec-28-12		Abdel Irada: <Not sure how relevant Kasparov is any more.> One thing's sure: He won't get any more relevant with time. I think you should finish your story. I for one would like to read it.

Dec-29-12		OhioChessFan: http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/...

Dec-29-12		Abdel Irada: :-D (Now, why won't these forums let me post an emoticon without added text?)

Dec-29-12		OhioChessFan: Very annoying. I think the minimum number of characters to post is five. I've never tried to find out exactly.

Dec-29-12		OhioChessFan: 12345

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