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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-31-13		Annie K.: Yeah - absolutely. ;)

Apr-04-13		jessicafischerqueen: heh attach cats to my computer. Finally! You suggested that to me before. Usually it's me who always forgets things I already posted to you before, including, embarrassingly, long questions and answers. inb4 FICS ratings system. DOH! Anyways I'll catch you on the "wireless" this weekend, tomorrow is Saturday here and I'll look for you until I find you.

Apr-04-13		Annie K.: <Jess> you attach mice to computers, not cats! =) I may have, conceivably, suggested that before. ;s I should be around tomorrow. Definitely time to catch up a bit! :) <Switch> btw - forgot to comment earlier - when I refer to "my end of the pool", I'm not talking about my rating range vs yours, so much as about those of us who play 10 0, as opposed to your dizzying 1 0 / 3 0 range. ;s IMO it's the different time controls that make for completely different player pools, as the 10 0 players are not very likely to ever meet the 1 0 players. :) Oh, and here's today's game against Favorite Opponent... ;) [Event "FICS rated blitz game"] [Date "2013.04.05"] [White "FO"] [Black "AnnieK"] [WhiteElo "1444"] [BlackElo "1539"] [TimeControl "600+0"] [Mode "ICS"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 h6 4. b3 d6 5. Bb2 Nc6 6. d4 Bg4 7. Be2 Nf6 8. Nbd2 Bxf3 9. Bxf3 Qe7 10. Qe2 O-O-O 11. c4 Kb8 12. a4 Nb4 13. O-O-O Nd7 14. Kb1 g5 15. h3 Bg7 16. Rhe1 Qf6 17. e5 dxe5 18. dxe5 Qb6 19. Nf1 Nc5 20. Rxd8+ Rxd8 21. Rd1 Re8 22. Nd2 a5 23. Bd4 Nc6 24. Bf2 Rxe5 25. Qf1 Qb4 26. Ka2 Nxa4 27. bxa4 Qxa4+ 28. Kb1 Qb4+ 29. Ka2 Re3 30. Bxe3 Qb2# 0-1

Apr-05-13		Thanh Phan: <..attach mice to computers, not cats!> It is a bit safer to vote them into office then to attach them to computers, easier on the furniture also ^.^

Apr-05-13		jessicafischerqueen: Heh... Originally I thought Annie meant to tie a few cats to your computer with string or something.

Apr-06-13		Annie K.: Tie cats??* * yes, I do mean that would be a bad move... ;s <Thanh> heh. Good point. :) OK then, you can also let them run loose, and just say they are wireless.

Apr-07-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie K.: Tie cats??* * yes, I do mean that would be a bad move... ;s > Besides being cruelty to both cats and computers :-) <Annie K.: <Switch> btw - forgot to comment earlier - when I refer to "my end of the pool", I'm not talking about my rating range vs yours, so much as about those of us who play 10 0, as opposed to your dizzying 1 0 / 3 0 range. ;s IMO it's the different time controls that make for completely different player pools, as the 10 0 players are not very likely to ever meet the 1 0 players. :)> Oh, OK... you're still in the middle of the pool, mind ;p Nice hypermodern game! <17. e5??> was a growler but that so-called ideal pawn center didn't look too healthy anyhow - one can't help asking if your favorite opponent shouldn't try some completely different opening for a change... ;-)

Apr-10-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> Back in FICS action :) I had mouseslips in two consecutive games and lost them both... it should not be surprising I went absolutely Librarian in the next game :-) [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2013.04.10"] [Round "?"] [White "Quylthulg"] [Black "NN"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2009"] [BlackElo "1968"] [ECO "A01"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. b3 b6 2. Bb2 Bb7 3. c4 d6 4. Nc3 e5 5. e3 Nf6 6. Nf3 Be7 7. d4 exd4 8. Nxd4 O-O 9. Nf5 Nbd7 10. Be2 Re8 11. Bf3 Bxf3 12. gxf3 Bf8 13. Rg1 Kh8 14. Nd5 Ne5 15. f4 Ng6 16. Nxf6 gxf6 17. h4 Nxf4 18. Qg4 Nd3+ 19. Kd2 Nxb2 20. Qg8# {Black checkmated} 1-0

Apr-10-13		Annie K.: <Switch> I dunno, that 1.b3 looks like a mouseslip to me... :s Sorry, couldn't resist. ;) Wild game! =) & Ouch in re mouse. I had some mouse trouble a while back too - every now and then, for some unknown reason, my mouse would simply drop the piece I was dragging, somewhere on the way, before the intended destination. I learned, surprisingly quickly, ;) to switch to the click & click system instead of the drag & drop I've been using for years. :( Alternatively, one could just buy a new mouse, I suppose. <you're still in the middle of the pool, mind ;p> Well yes, relatively, more middlish than you anyways. <one can't help asking if your favorite opponent shouldn't try some completely different opening for a change> I've been asking myself that question too, not him though - if he found himself a decent opening, he might not remain my favorite opponent! ;p Thanks for comments. :)

Apr-10-13		Alien Math: Even wireless mouse able to slip, to include cats, wireless or connected, If able run piece of paper between edges to note if there dust, sometimes a reason, Also nice game ^.^

Apr-11-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie K.: Alternatively, one could just buy a new mouse, I suppose.> That does sound like an option :) In my case, though, this <is> the new mouse. New enough, anyway, that I still think of it as the new mouse... it helps the old mouse isn't easily forgotten :-) <statBot at Mon Nov 12, 11:21 EETDST 2012: In the last 7 days (since 2012-11-04) you have improved your rating in variant Lightning by +256 points, that is the highest rating gain of all players on FICS in that period> <Alien Math> Thanks, but I don't need a piece of paper to know it's eaten plenty of leftovers :-)

Apr-11-13		OhioChessFan: http://www.blogcdn.com/www.mandator...

Apr-11-13		OhioChessFan: I guess, sort of, the above is NSFW.

Apr-11-13		OhioChessFan: How about a nice cat gif instead? http://www.blogcdn.com/www.mandator...

Apr-11-13		jessicafischerqueen: <Ohio> I admire your prudence, but I wouldn't say that your acronym for one of Australia's more prominent provinces is really NSFW. Now, the colloquial Australian version is without doubt NSFW: <New South F____ing Wales>

Apr-11-13		jessicafischerqueen: ahem HI <Annie>! I have a cunning plan. This weekend I will choose a different time of day to try to hit you up on the SPYLINE, to catch kitty at home.

Apr-11-13		Annie K.: <Switch> that must have been one unforgettable mouse indeed! I seem to recall that you even dedicated a note to it in your FICS profile. :D Heh. Akshly, maybe a new mouse <pad> could be a good idea in your case - seems like the traction isn't just right. Both "too slippery" and "too sticky" pads cause mouseslips. Also less food by computer, at least on the mouse side. ;s <Ohio> That second one is much better. ;) Very sensible kitty. Why jump and risk injuries, when one can simply stroll down, and maybe even change their mind on the way?! =) <Jess> good plan. I am more or less guaranteed to be online practically non-stop between about 10pm to 10am your time. ;)

Apr-11-13		jessicafischerqueen: Aha! the old 10pm ploy. I'll follow those orders then.

Apr-12-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie K.: <Switch> that must have been one unforgettable mouse indeed! I seem to recall that you even dedicated a note to it in your FICS profile. :D> It had any number of endearing habits :) It wasn't really the mouseslips that made it so memorable, though there certainly were plenty of those. Nor was it the mouse's feeling it was fully independent and had as much say as me as to which way it should be moving, regularly opting for a completely different direction. No, the unforgettable thing was its moodiness - every eight moves or so, it would stop working <at all> and the only way to get it to move again was to 1) unplug it from the USB port, 2) replug it and 3) hope that would help. With luck, it would... in which case I could relax and be safe in the knowledge I probably wouldn't have to do it again for another five seconds. Anyway, it doesn't do to forget a loyal companion :-) <Also less food by computer, at least on the mouse side. ;s> I need food! Though to be fair, I probably could get by on a bit less :-)

Apr-12-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: Finally scaled the next barrier :-)) <{Game 71 (bluemester vs. Quylthulg) bluemester resigns} 0-1 Blitz rating adjustment: 2097 --> 2101 Blitz rank: 191/21070 (up 5) Blitz hrank: 134/20986 (up 5) You have achieved your best active rating so far.> Along the road I lost some games in supremely silly ways... and made up for it with equally improbable wins. This was likely the worst offender :-) [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2013.04.12"] [Round "?"] [White "NN"] [Black "Quylthulg"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1963"] [BlackElo "2084"] [ECO "B00"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. e4 b6 2. Nf3 Bb7 3. d4 Bxe4 4. Nc3 Bb7 5. Bg5 Nf6 6. Bc4 e6 7. O-O d5 8. Bb5+ c6 9. Bd3 Be7 10. Ne5 Nbd7 11. Qf3 Qc7 12. Rfe1 h6 13. Bf4 Bd6 14. a4 a6 15. Qh3 c5 16. Nxf7 Bxf4 17. Qxe6+ Kf8 18. Qe7+ Kg8 19. Ng5 Bxh2+ 20. Kf1 hxg5 21. Bg6 Rh6 22. Qf7+ Kh8 23. Re7 Rg8 24. Rae1 Qf4 25. Re8 Bg3 26. Rxg8+ Nxg8 {White forfeits on time} 0-1

Apr-12-13		Annie K.: <Switch> insane game, and big congrats on passing 2100! =) BTW, until your description here, I didn't realize that a computer mouse could be female. ;s <I need food!> Heh - yes, no arguing that (and I rather suspected that "eating elsewhere" isn't a selectable option here...) ;) - I was just wondering if maybe you could learn to eat with your other hand, so as to remove the food from the mice's vicinity...? Yes, PETA may object, but still. :p <Jess> Kewl! I may be about both earlier than 10pm and later than 10am, that's just the "guaranteed" time bracket. :)

Apr-12-13		hms123: <Switch> Aside from the facts that a) it looked pretty French by move 9, and b) your opponent had a serious mating attack (maybe castling could be added to your arsenal), you managed to wiggle out quite well. Congrats on 2100!

Apr-12-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> <hms> Thanks! :)

Apr-14-13		shivasuri4: <Annie K.>, here's something stirring, by a Canadian poet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa1i...

Apr-14-13		Annie K.: <shiva> thanks, it's worth the time to listen to. Smarter than the average bear, indeed. Yes, self-esteem and self-confidence sometimes have to be consciously learned. The good news: this can be done. :)

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