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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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Jun-03-13		MarkFinan: And i hope you're in good health and doing well too mate.

Jun-03-13		Annie K.: <Switch> been too busy to place bets today... oh well, next tournament. Yeah, caught a nice pick-3 payoff in the previous round, with betting on only 3 outcomes: Draw-White-Anything. Congrats to you too! <Dom> of course I remember! :D <Mark> Glad to see you around here again. I'm fine, and I would definitely like to hear what you've been up to! :)

Jun-04-13		crawfb5: Sad cat diary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKff...

Jun-04-13		OhioChessFan: http://i.imgur.com/Rj8ICxl.gif

Jun-04-13		Annie K.: Thanks <craw> and <Ohio>, both are priceless! :D

Jun-05-13		OhioChessFan: http://o.aolcdn.com/dims-global/dim...

Jun-05-13		OhioChessFan: Ever get a cramp in your leg? http://www.blogcdn.com/www.mandator...

Jun-07-13		Annie K.: LOL. Just LOL. Thx! :D

Jun-07-13		Domdaniel: <Ohio> Hmm. Looks like a case of <Paw Taken Over by Alien Hummingbird> ... <Must Amputate with Teeth before Syndrome Spreads ...> -- A feline condition, thankfully rare.

Jun-08-13		Annie K.: Heh. Not too surprisingly, something similar - 'Leg turns on owner' - was my first impression too, with 'oh, cramp' being a rather distant second... ;)

Jun-08-13		Annie K.: So... I finally did it!! :D [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Date "2013.06.09"] [White "anniek1974@chesscube.com"] [Black "NN"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "1974"] [BlackElo "1930"] [TimeControl "300+3"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. c3 a6 5. Qe2 b5 6. Bb3 c4 7. Bc2 Bb7 8. d4 cxd3 9. Bxd3 e6 10. O-O Be7 11. Rd1 O-O 12. e5 Ng4 13. exd6 Bxd6 14. h3 Nf6 15. Ne5 Qc7 16. Ng4 Nbd7 17. Bg5 Nxg4 18. Qxg4 Ne5 19. Qh5 Nxd3 20. Rxd3 Qc6 21. Qg4 Be5 22. f3 g6 23. Nd2 Qc5+ 24. Be3 Qe7 25. Ne4 Bg7 26. Rad1 Bxe4 27. Qxe4 Rfd8 28. Kf2 Rxd3 29. Qxa8+ Qd8 30. Qxd8+ Rxd8 31. Rxd8+ 1-0 Um, I mean I finally hit 1974 rating (with previous game, against this same opponent... another win, btw) :p Also, the time control. :) In my previous era at ChessCube, I played mostly 5 0. Now, although I don't want to return to that dizzying speed (plz tone that down, <Switch>!) ;) - I have decided to play a few 5 3 games, of which this is one. Guess I'm just an adrenaline junkie, but I don't want help, thx. ;D

Jun-08-13		Annie K.: PS - yes, that was in fact a terribly played game. Now, here's the game that actually <got me> to 1974: [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Date "2013.06.09"] [White "NN"] [Black "anniek1974@chesscube.com"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1941"] [BlackElo "1963"] [TimeControl "300+3"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 Bb4 6. e3 Nbd7 7. a3 Bxc3+ 8. bxc3 c5 9. dxc5 Nxc5 10. Bb5+ Ncd7 11. Ne2 Qa5 12. Bxf6 Qxb5 13. Bxg7 Rg8 14. Qd4 Qa6 15. Qxd5 Rxg7 16. Qe4+ Qe6 17. Qxe6+ fxe6 18. O-O Nf6 19. Rfd1 Bd7 20. Rab1 Bc6 21. g3 Bf3 22. Rd2 Ne4 23. Nd4 Nxd2 0-1 ... almost as bad. My excuse is the hour, I dunno what's his. :p

Jun-09-13		Alien Math: Congrats on achieve namesake elo ^.^ some neat games also

Jun-09-13		Annie K.: <Hanh> thanks. :) ... now I sortof wish I'd <stop> hitting 1974... ;s [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Date "2013.06.10"] [White "anniek1974@chesscube.com"] [Black "NN"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "1974"] [BlackElo "1832"] [TimeControl "600"] 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qa5 4. d4 Nf6 5. Bd2 c6 6. h3 Bf5 7. Bc4 e6 8. Nge2 Bd6 9. Ne4 Bb4 10. Nxf6+ gxf6 11. c3 Be7 12. Ng3 Bg6 13. Bb3 Nd7 14. a3 e5 15. c4 Qb6 16. c5 Qc7 17. d5 cxd5 18. Bxd5 Qxc5 19. Bxb7 Rb8 20. Rc1 Qb6 21. Bc6 Qxb2 22. Bxd7+ Kxd7 23. Bc3+ 1-0

Jun-10-13		jessicafischerqueen: <Annie> Congratulations on such a lofty rating on CHESSCUBE. As usual, I'll ask the same questions you already answered months ago. Are you playing the 15/0 time on CHESSCUBE? That's what I play and I never got past 1700. Close but not past. And then I usually slide back to 1600s and even lower. I'm a terrible chess player! ahhhhh I only ever played the 15/0 at CHESS CUBE though. I play 10/0 and 5/0 at CHESS.COM. Badly. What is your time control of choice at CHESSCUBE? I take it you're normally playing something slower than the 5/0? Anyways I'm very impressed by your new big top! I hope this doesn't mean you're planning to join the circus...

Jun-10-13		jessicafischerqueen: oh I'm so dumb. IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY RATING!!! whee and a very high rated birthday you have too.

Jun-10-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie K.: ... almost as bad. My excuse is the hour, I dunno what's his. :p> For any game published the day before it was played I'm willing to accept that excuse :-) Congrats on hitting 1974! <Also, the time control. :) In my previous era at ChessCube, I played mostly 5 0. Now, although I don't want to return to that dizzying speed (plz tone that down, <Switch>!) ;) - I have decided to play a few 5 3 games, of which this is one.> Don't worry, I haven't played much 5 0 lately :)

Jun-10-13		Annie K.: Hi <Jess>! :) No, I never play 15 0, I don't need that much time and I don't like my opponents to have it. ;p I play mostly 10 0, and now sometimes 5 3 for a quite comfortable alternative. For extra fun, some Chess 960 as well, this only at 10 0 so far, but if someone posts a 960 seek at 5 3, I'll take that too. My current highest rating at ChessCube is actually 2036, and I'd like to get back to that, and beyond, now I'm done chasing 1974 down... ;) <Switch> hehx2 + thx! Yeah, the same thing happens with FICS games I post here - the server dates update much earlier than cg's time stamp. :s BTW - I dropped my home comp off at the lab today, and will pick it up tomorrow, so I'm computerless for today - except for the iPhone, of course...

Jun-10-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> Just played a couple fun games :) [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2013.06.10"] [Round "?"] [White "Quylthulg"] [Black "NN"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "1944"] [BlackElo "1881"] [ECO "A10"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. c4 f5 2. Nc3 e6 3. e3 Nf6 4. Nf3 d5 5. cxd5 exd5 6. d4 c6 7. Bd3 Bd6 8. Ne5 O-O 9. f4 Ne4 10. O-O Be6 11. Nxe4 fxe4 12. Be2 Nd7 13. b4 Bxb4 14. Rb1 Nxe5 15. Rxb4 Nd7 16. Rxb7 Qh4 17. Ba3 Rf6 18. Be7 Raf8 19. f5 R8f7 20. g3 Qh6 21. Bxf6 Qxe3+ 22. Kh1 Rxf6 23. fxe6 Rxf1+ 24. Qxf1 Nf6 25. Rb8+ {Black resigns} 1-0 click for larger view One piece isn't enough. I want all of them :) In the rematch I got to play an even more outrageous move. Which is not a synonym for objectively good :-) [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2013.06.10"] [Round "?"] [White "NN"] [Black "Quylthulg"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1874"] [BlackElo "1951"] [ECO "A40"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. d4 b6 2. e3 Bb7 3. Nf3 e6 4. Bd3 f5 5. O-O Nf6 6. c4 a5 7. Nc3 Bb4 8. Qe2 O-O 9. Bd2 d6 10. a3 Bxc3 11. Bxc3 Ne4 12. Nd2 Nxc3 13. bxc3 Nd7 14. f3 e5 15. e4 f4 16. g3 Qg5 17. Qg2 Rf6 18. Rab1 Ba6 19. g4 h5 20. h3 hxg4 21. hxg4 Rh6 22. Kf2 Kf7 23. Rh1 Rah8 24. Rxh6 Rxh6 25. Rh1 Rh4 26. Ke2 Qh6 27. Rxh4 Qxh4 28. Nf1 Nf6 29. Qh2 g5 30. Qg1 d5 31. dxe5 dxe4 32. exf6 exd3+ 33. Kxd3 Qe1 34. Nd2 Qxg1 {White resigns} 0-1

Jun-11-13		Annie K.: <Switch> just had time to play through your games, love them! :D

Jun-12-13		brankat: <Switch> Unless this is a joke, are You sure the diagram (FEN) attached to the game actually corresponds to the PGN above it? :-)

Jun-12-13		crawfb5: <Annie> Despite being bumped up to Board 1 on my team at CW, I finished this round with 8-0, and find myself just shy of the magic 2300 at 2293. I bring this up by way of asking if there is any predictability to new league games? I got caught unawares with this last iteration and had a larger gameload than I anticipated.

Jun-12-13		Annie K.: <brankat> it might; that's the position after 18...Raf8. <craw> congrats, great result, and rating! :) I'm not really too sure how Tryfon manages the league games schedule these days, I haven't been actively involved at ChessWorld in quite a while. You could try asking in the ChessWorld 'Advanced Help' or 'Suggestions' forums (as in, suggestion to make the league schedule more transparent). Tip: the most knowledgeable admins (including Tryfon) tended to hang around the Suggestions forum more frequently, at least back when I was around. ;)

Jun-12-13		crawfb5: <Annie> Thanks, I'd not realized you'd gone somewhat inactive at CW. Asking in Advanced Help should work. I've had a run of cooperative opponents, so the unexpected additional games didn't cause the problems they could have. Looking at the ratings breakdowns, I see I usually win against those under 2200 but at most draw with those above 2300, so all I have to do is enter a class tournament or two to knock down the rating. :-)

Jun-13-13		brankat: <Annie K.> <..it might; that's the position after 18...Raf8.> Thanks Annie. I suppose the diagram could have been inserted after <18...Raf8>. But then, Switch gets a kick out of confusing people ;-) <..it might; that's the position after 18...Raf8.>

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