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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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Jan-19-13		Annie K.: <Switch> um, I suppose 30...Rxg3 31.Rxe6 Rxh3+ and try to win on time. ;p

Jan-20-13		Annie K.: Somebody send this guy money, so he can pay for a decent net access... :p [Event "FICS rated blitz game"] [Date "2013.01.21"] [White "JimDLCH"] [Black "AnnieK"] [WhiteElo "1428"] [BlackElo "1554"] [TimeControl "600+0"] [Mode "ICS"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nf6 3. d3 Nc6 4. c3 a6 5. b4 d6 6. Qb3 Qd7 7. Nf3 h6 8. O-O Be7 9. Be3 O-O 10. Nbd2 Nh7 11. h3 Kh8 12. Bxf7 Ng5 13. Nxg5 Bxg5 14. Bg6 Ne7 15. Bh5 Ng8 16. Bxg5 hxg5 17. Nf3 Qe7 18. Rae1 Nf6 19. Bg6 g4 20. hxg4 Bxg4 21. Re3 Be6 22. c4 Ng4 23. Re2 Qf6 24. Bf5 Bxf5 25. exf5 Qxf5 26. Nh2 g6 27. Nxg4 Qxg4 28. Re4 Qh5 29. g3 Kg7 30. Kg2 Qf3+ 31. Kg1 Rh8 32. Rh4 Rxh4 33. gxh4 Qg4+ 34. Kh2 Qxh4+ 35. Kg2 Qg4+ (White forfeits by disconnection) 0-1

Jan-20-13		Annie K.: Oooh, I just noticed my currents blitz stats at FICS: wins - 11371 losses - 5360 draws - 666 Too bad I didn't notice that a little earlier. Just yesterday, somebody asked me if I knew what 666 was (because it's also the end of one of our fax numbers at work...). I could have told him! ;p

Jan-21-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> Somehow, one would have expected more from an opponent not named NN :s

Jan-21-13		Annie K.: <Switch> heh. I figure that, from now on, if an opponent doesn't have the courtesy to finish their game in a civilized manner, then I don't owe them the courtesy of protecting their identity, either. Look forward to many more non-NN-ian opponents... ;p

Jan-21-13		hms123: <Annie> < if an opponent doesn't have the courtesy to finish their game in a civilized manner, then I don't owe them the courtesy of protecting their identity, either.> I like your style.

Jan-21-13		Annie K.: <hms> thx, I learned it from this bull I once met in a china shop... ;)

Jan-21-13		hms123: <Annie> In re: <bull in china shop> I still remember early in my stint as Associate Provost, the Provost said "let's go break some furniture"--and I was in charge of the breaking. It was great fun. Later on, he asked me to do something and I said "I am going to break some furniture. Is that ok?" He said "yes" and it led to more major fun.

Jan-21-13		Annie K.: You seem to have developed a bit of an addiction there? Well done, well done. :D

Jan-22-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> Compared to some other ways to resign, disconnecting on you seems quite seemly :) The MythBusters once released bulls among shelves full of china and found they didn't do much damage at all. They didn't use an actual china shop, so their results are somewhat disputable, but it does sound as if "<hms123> having fun" might be a more accurate idiom :-)

Jan-22-13		Annie K.: Well, before FICS recently instituted the unilateral noescape clause, these "disconnection" games needed to be waited out, adjourned, and then adjudicated. I would consider some drawing and quartering of the practitioners to be a reasonable to mild penalty. But it's amazing how much stabler net connections became since the unilateral noescape was introduced, one has to note. FICS for Better Internet for Everybody! ;p

Jan-22-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> There is that, yes. But such issues have mostly passed me by, since I've had <&& (noescape=1)> in my formula for the last five or so years :) Have I ever mentioned just how deadly the <baleful influence of the fawn pawn> is? I'm not quite sure :s [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2013.01.22"] [Round "?"] [White "Quylthulg"] [Black "NN"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "1988"] [BlackElo "1956"] [ECO "A01"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. b3 e5 2. Bb2 d6 3. e3 Nf6 4. d4 exd4 5. exd4 g6 6. Bd3 Bg7 7. Nf3 O-O 8. O-O Nc6 9. d5 Nxd5 10. Bxg7 Kxg7 11. c4 Nf4 12. Nc3 Nxd3 13. Qxd3 Bf5 14. Qd2 Ne5 15. Nd4 Bd7 16. f4 Nc6 17. f5 Nxd4 18. f6+ Kh8 19. Qxd4 Re8 20. Rae1 Bf5 21. Re7 Kg8 22. Nd5 Rc8 23. Qh4 Rxe7 24. fxe7 Qe8 {Black resigns} 1-0 <hms123> Have you had any new FICS adventures lately? I think it's time you got addicted to those, too :)

Jan-22-13		hms123: <Switch> No new FICS adventures. I am trying to keep addiction to a minimum.

Jan-22-13		Annie K.: <Switch> I had noescape set most of the time too (except when I was playing often on the iPhone), but until very recently, it wasn't <unilateral>; it needed both sides to have the setting on to work. If your opponent didn't have it on, he could disconnect all he liked, your setting wouldn't forfeit him. The recent change is that now it's enough if one side sets noescape (which I now have permanently on of course...) :) Admittedly, at your time controls, there's hardly enough time to disconnect! ;) <Have I ever mentioned> Only twice recently, I think. Practically never, that is. :D Very ouchy finish for your victim, I mean, opponent!

Jan-22-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> I know all that. The effect of having noescape=1 in your formula is that you'll only ever play people who also have noescape on :)

Jan-22-13		Annie K.: Oh, in the formula, yeah. I have several different formula versions, at various levels of pickiness, but I rarely seek with formula, because it usually means waiting much longer for games. :s

Jan-22-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: That's because you insist on playing 10 0 :s

Jan-22-13		hms123: <Switch> I know. Having all that extra time to think is hardly fair--it's not addictive enough.

Jan-22-13		Annie K.: I like to win on time. ;p

Jan-23-13		Annie K.: ...another one of those Caro thingies... ;) [Event "FICS rated blitz game"] [Date "2013.01.24"] [White "AnnieK"] [Black "NN"] [WhiteElo "1503"] [BlackElo "1254"] [TimeControl "600+0"] [Mode "ICS"] [Result "1-0"] 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. f4 e6 5. a3 c5 6. c3 Nc6 7. Nf3 Qb6 8. Bd3 Bxd3 9. Qxd3 cxd4 10. cxd4 Nge7 11. Nc3 Nf5 12. Ne2 Be7 13. b4 a6 14. O-O O-O 15. Bb2 f6 16. Kh1 Rac8 17. exf6 Bxf6 18. Ne5 Bxe5 19. fxe5 g6 20. Rad1 Nce7 21. Nf4 g5 22. Nh5 Ng6 23. Nf6+ Rxf6 24. exf6 Nf4 25. Qd2 Qb5 26. Rxf4 gxf4 27. Qxf4 Rc2 28. Qg4+ Kf7 29. Bc1 Qc4 30. Bg5 Qc3 31. Qh5+ Kg8 32. Qe8# 1-0

Jan-24-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: Poor NN. You'd think he'd have smelled something when you played Bg5, but no :)

Jan-24-13		Annie K.: Too busy with his own plans, apparently. ;s

Jan-24-13		hms123: Annie does the <Kan-Kan>. <Switch> got it right--too busy looking at <g2>.

Jan-24-13		Annie K.: <H> he usually does, but you seem to be agreeing with my comment in this case? ;s OK, what is this? OE sez Owen Defense, whatever that is. Seems to be somewhat related to the French? Oh, possibly because it's chess, or at least blitz. I dunno. It was delishus, anyway. :p [Event "FICS rated blitz game"] [Date "2013.01.25"] [White "AnnieK"] [Black "NN"] [WhiteElo "1495"] [BlackElo "1287"] [TimeControl "600+0"] [Mode "ICS"] [Result "1-0"] 1. e4 e6 2. d4 b6 3. f4 Bb7 4. Bd3 Nf6 5. Qe2 Be7 6. Nf3 O-O 7. O-O c5 8. c3 d5 9. e5 Nfd7 10. Bc2 Ba6 11. Bd3 f6 12. Bxa6 c4 13. Bb5 a6 14. Ba4 b5 15. Bc2 Nc6 16. b3 fxe5 17. fxe5 Rf7 18. Nbd2 Qf8 19. Bb1 Qe8 20. bxc4 bxc4 21. Rf2 Nf8 22. Nf1 Ng6 23. Ng3 Bh4 24. Qc2 Bxg3 25. hxg3 Nce7 26. Bf4 Qd7 27. Ng5 Rf5 28. Qc1 Rff8 29. Qd1 a5 30. Qh5 Nf5 31. Qxh7# 1-0

Jan-24-13		hms123: <Annie> Sorry. I was agreeing with your comment. Typing too fast, but thinking too slowly.

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