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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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Mar-09-13		Annie K.: A Knight on the rim is dim... for someone. ;p [Event "FICS rated blitz game"] [Date "2013.03.09"] [White "NN"] [Black "AnnieK"] [WhiteElo "1419"] [BlackElo "1508"] [TimeControl "600+0"] [Mode "ICS"] [Result "0-1"] 1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bf4 Nf6 4. e3 a6 5. c3 Bg4 6. Be2 Nh5 7. Be5 Bxf3 8. Bxf3 Nf6 9. Bg3 Ne4 10. Qb3 Nxg3 11. hxg3 e6 12. Qxb7 Na5 13. Qxa8 Qxa8 14. b3 Bd6 15. Nd2 O-O 16. e4 c6 17. exd5 exd5 18. c4 Qe8+ 19. Kf1 dxc4 20. Nxc4 Nxc4 21. bxc4 Bb4 22. Bxc6 Qxc6 0-1

Mar-09-13		hms123: <AnniePoisonsThePawn> I am always amazed at how quickly you get out of the opening book in your games. Nice <DimTheKnight> tactic.

Mar-09-13		Annie K.: <H> Thanks. :) It helps that I don't actually remember what the opening book sez... especially in d4 openings. I do have a general idea of what should go approximately where, in some order or other, but that order tends to be determined by, um, pure chance. I call it "transpositions". If they confuse the opponent, that's a bonus. ;p [Event "FICS rated blitz game"] [Date "2013.03.09"] [White "NN"] [Black "AnnieK"] [WhiteElo "1439"] [BlackElo "1507"] [TimeControl "600+0"] [Mode "ICS"] [Result "0-1"] 1. d4 d5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 e6 4. a3 c5 5. e3 Nc6 6. Bb5 a6 7. Bxc6+ bxc6 8. O-O Bd6 9. Re1 O-O 10. g3 cxd4 11. Qxd4 c5 12. Qh4 Be7 13. Ng5 h6 14. Ne2 hxg5 15. Qxg5 Ne4 16. Qh5 Bg5 17. f3 Nd6 18. b3 Bf6 19. Rb1 Qa5 20. Rd1 Nf5 21. Bd2 Qb5 22. Nc3 Qb6 23. g4 Nxe3 24. Bxe3 Bxc3 25. b4 Bd4 26. Re1 Bxe3+ 27. Rxe3 cxb4 28. Qe5 f6 29. Qf4 e5 30. Qxb4 Qxe3+ 31. Kg2 Be6 32. Re1 Qg5 33. Kg3 Rab8 34. Qc3 Rbc8 35. Qb3 Qf4+ 36. Kg2 Rc6 37. h3 d4 38. Qb7 Rxc2+ 39. Kf1 Bc4+ 0-1

Mar-09-13		hms123: <Annie> I am starting to really appreciate your style of play. Your instincts are good, but the lack of calculation time occasionally shows through. I liked the last game--wild and wooly. Is that the difference between 5 0 and 10 0?

Mar-09-13		Annie K.: Heh, thx. All my games are 10 0 - I haven't played 5 0 in years, and don't intend to return to it. I can manage that time control - just barely - but I do like having a little more time to think when needed. The "instincts" are mostly thanks to Emrald training, where I was once in the top ten... not ratingwise, alas, but at least sorted by number of puzzles done. It would probably be a good idea to return there more often, at that. ;s

Mar-09-13		hms123: <Annie> Yes, I need to get back to Emrald myself. I used to solve a lot of problems, but it somehow fell off my radar. Right now I am focusing on QP openings from both sides. There's a lot to know.

Mar-09-13		dakgootje: < haven't played 5 0 in years, and don't intend to return to it. I can manage that time control - just barely - but I do like having a little more time to think when needed.> I did a triple of games against a friend of mine yesterweek 5+0 - but, as previously, I found my brain just shuts down for calculation. So my intuition is still fair enough for some semi-decent play against weaker opponents, but somehow I just can't calculate anything over 4 halfmoves. Not as in 'not enough time', simply "it doesn't register". Very strange. So instead I'm playing him in a corr. game whereby we're both completely out of our opening knowledge by move 5 or thereabouts ;D

Mar-09-13		Annie K.: <dakkie> good luck! :) On the upside, when you return to 10 0 after having played 5 0, you're going to feel like you have oceans of time, and the clock will never worry you again. ;)

Mar-10-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> Nice queen trap in game 1! Here's a fun double example: J Lahner vs J Michenka, 2001 click for larger view In this position, White can win a pawn with the in-between move 13.Qc3! - Black's queen will be essentially trapped, and 13...Nf3+ 14.Bxf3 Qf5 is forced. White can then take on either b7 or c7 with impunity. Instead he played the immediate <13.Qxc7?>... click for larger view ...and after <13...Nc6!! 14.Bxd5 Nxd5 15.Qxb7 Na5> it was White's queen that was trapped :) <hms123: <Annie> I am starting to really appreciate your style of play. Your instincts are good, but the lack of calculation time occasionally shows through. I liked the last game--wild and wooly.> In blitz, everyone's weak at tactics :-) What was your peak rating at Emrald?

Mar-10-13		hms123: <Switch> I have no idea. I played as a guest for 10 minutes at a time off and on for a while. I also found (following <Annie's> advice) that I was happier ignoring the speed component and just working out the solution on my own time.

Mar-10-13		hms123: Don't even ask how I got into this mess...something about getting out of the book early. Never again. Anyhoo, Black has just played <1....Qxh2> click for larger view Fortunately, I had <Annie's> poison recipe handy. <2. Bxc6! Ke7 3. Rh1> click for larger view

Mar-12-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <hms> How did you get in that mess? ;-) Amazing how many people love to simplify :p [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2013.03.12"] [Round "?"] [White "NN"] [Black "Quylthulg"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1859"] [BlackElo "2027"] [ECO "B00"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. e4 b6 2. d4 Bb7 3. Bd3 Nf6 4. Qe2 e6 5. Nf3 d5 6. exd5 Nxd5 7. c3 Bd6 8. O-O Nf4 9. Bxf4 Bxf4 10. Nbd2 O-O 11. Nc4 Nd7 12. Nce5 Nxe5 13. Nxe5 Bxe5 14. Qxe5 Qd5 15. Qxd5 Bxd5 16. Rfd1 a5 17. Bc2 a4 18. a3 Rfd8 19. f3 Kf8 20. Kf2 c5 21. Ke3 Bc4 22. Rab1 Ke7 23. dxc5 bxc5 24. Rxd8 Rxd8 25. Rd1 Rb8 26. Bxa4 Rxb2 27. Rd7+ Kf6 28. g4 g5 29. Rc7 Re2# {White checkmated} 0-1

Mar-12-13		hms123: <Switch> click for larger view oops!

Mar-13-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: And this is what happens to players who lay no proper claim to the center, give their opponents completely free tempi, move the same pieces over and over again with half their army still undeveloped, and go around greedily grabbing pawns to open lines at their own uncastled king :) [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2013.03.13"] [Round "?"] [White "NN"] [Black "Quylthulg"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1897"] [BlackElo "2021"] [ECO "B00"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. e4 b6 2. d4 Bb7 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e5 Nd5 5. Nxd5 Bxd5 6. Nf3 e6 7. Bd3 d6 8. O-O Nd7 9. c4 Bb7 10. Re1 dxe5 11. Nxe5 Nxe5 12. dxe5 Bc5 13. Be3 Bd4 14. Qg4 Bxe5 15. Rad1 h5 16. Qh3 Qf6 17. c5 O-O-O 18. cxb6 axb6 19. a4 g5 20. g3 Qf3 21. Kf1 Rxd3 22. Rxd3 Ba6 23. Qg2 Bxd3+ 24. Kg1 g4 25. Qxf3 gxf3 26. b4 Rd8 27. h3 Bf5 28. Kh2 h4 29. a5 hxg3+ 30. fxg3 Rh8 31. Bh6 Bc3 32. Re3 Bd4 33. Rxf3 Rxh6 34. h4 Rh7 35. axb6 cxb6 36. b5 Kd7 37. Rf1 Kd6 38. Rd1 Kd5 39. Kg2 Bg4 40. Rd2 f5 41. Rc2 e5 42. Rc8 Ra7 43. Rc2 e4 44. h5 Bxh5 45. g4 Bxg4 46. Kg3 Ra3+ 47. Kf4 Be3+ 48. Kg3 Bg5+ 49. Kg2 f4 50. Rd2+ Ke5 51. Rb2 Bf3+ 52. Kh3 Bd1+ 53. Kg2 Rg3+ 54. Kf2 e3+ 55. Ke1 Ba4 56. Rh2 Rg1+ 57. Ke2 Bxb5+ 58. Kf3 Rg3# {White checkmated} 0-1

Mar-14-13		OhioChessFan: http://www.blogcdn.com/www.mandator...

Mar-14-13		waustad: Greetings, I was looking through some games in a women's tournament in Central Europe and ran into a player called Istvan Fischer. It would not surprise me if chess365 combined games of two different "I. Fischer" players. Is Istvan ever used as a woman's name? Some names in English (Dana, Robin, ...) are used both ways, so it might be true for what I thought was the Hungarian version of Steven.

Mar-15-13		Annie K.: <waustad> Hi - well spotted. :) Istvan would never be used as a woman's name. Just never. It doesn't even have a feminine variation. <Ohio> that is so very kitten! Thanks. <hms>, <Switch> thanks guys, it's been an exhausting week, I'll catch up with games this weekend!

Mar-16-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> Good luck for round 2! You can still make the top ten :-)

Mar-16-13		Annie K.: <Switch> thanks, g'luck to you and <dakkie>! ;)

Mar-16-13		Annie K.: [Event "FICS rated blitz game"] [Date "2013.03.16"] [White "AnnieK"] [Black "NN"] [WhiteElo "1541"] [BlackElo "1307"] [TimeControl "600+0"] [Mode "ICS"] [Result "1-0"] 1. e4 e6 2. d4 c6 3. f4 d6 4. Nf3 Be7 5. Bd3 Qc7 6. c3 Bd7 7. O-O Nf6 8. Qe1 c5 9. e5 dxe5 10. fxe5 Nd5 11. c4 Nb6 12. d5 exd5 13. cxd5 Nxd5 14. Bc4 Bc6 15. Nc3 Nxc3 16. Qxc3 Nd7 17. e6 fxe6 18. Bxe6 O-O-O 19. Bg5 Bxg5 20. Nxg5 Kb8 21. Nf7 h5 22. Nxd8 Qxd8 23. Rad1 Qe7 24. Bxd7 Bxd7 25. Rfe1 Qf7 26. Qg3+ Ka8 27. Qc7 Be6 28. Rd8+ Rxd8 29. Qxd8+ Bc8 30. Qxc8# 1-0

Mar-16-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> Nice dynamic game! Did you intend to sacrifice that pawn or did it just happen? :s

Mar-16-13		Annie K.: <Switch> it was an intentional, if vague, sac. :) I had no specific plan yet, but his king was still in the center, and I was building pressure on the f file, so Q-side castling was likely for him - in which case, I liked the idea of having the d file open too.

Mar-16-13		Annie K.: Heh - this just in - [Event "FICS rated blitz game"] [Date "2013.03.16"] [White "NN"] [Black "AnnieK"] [WhiteElo "1312"] [BlackElo "1558"] [TimeControl "600+0"] [Mode "ICS"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 h6 4. Bc4 d6 5. d4 g5 6. O-O Bg7 7. Nc3 Bg4 8. Qe1 Bxf3 9. Rxf3 Bxd4+ 10. Kh1 a6 11. Bd5 c6 12. Bb3 Nd7 13. Ne2 Ba7 14. c3 Ne5 15. Rf1 Ng4 16. h3 h5 17. hxg4 hxg4+ 0-1

Mar-17-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: Poor NN. When I saw that bishop on a7 I knew things would get ugly for him :-) Funny, the effect <1. b3> has on some people. They think they can get away with silly junk openings :) [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2013.03.16"] [Round "?"] [White "NN"] [Black "Quylthulg"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1813"] [BlackElo "2003"] [ECO "A01"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. b3 a5 2. Bb2 b5 3. e3 b4 4. f4 Ba6 5. Nf3 Bxf1 6. Rxf1 Nf6 7. d3 e6 8. Nbd2 d5 9. h3 c5 10. g4 Nc6 11. Ne5 Qc7 12. Nxc6 Qxc6 13. g5 Nd7 14. Qg4 a4 15. f5 a3 16. fxe6 axb2 17. exd7+ Qxd7 18. Qxd7+ Kxd7 19. Rb1 Rxa2 20. Rxf7+ Ke6 21. Rf1 Bd6 22. Ke2 Rf8 23. Rxf8 Bxf8 24. e4 Be7 25. h4 Bd6 26. exd5+ Kxd5 27. Nc4 Be5 28. Ke3 Bd4+ 29. Kf4 Ra1 30. Nd2 Bc3 31. Ne4 Rxb1 {White resigns} 0-1

Mar-17-13		OhioChessFan: http://media.heavy.com/media/2013/0...

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