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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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Jun-13-13		brankat: Sorry, I just realized I had forgotten to delete the last line :-)

Jun-14-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> Good luck for today's games! :)

Jun-14-13		Annie K.: <Switch> oops, I overslept again. :s Regards, Britney <brankat> no worries. :) <craw> Yeah, I've been playing only blitz lately, so I just haven't been around ChessWorld much. 2300 sounds doable - good luck!

Jun-18-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> Good luck for round 5! It seems you could use it :-)

Jun-18-13		Domdaniel: <Annie> Innaresting that you've had trouble locating books by Harrison. He credited Iain Banks with inspiring the first novel in the Kefahuchi/Empty Space trilogy, Light -- Banks seemingly told him he should try to have more fun writing, and Mike Harrison thought "I'll show you fun!". But we know that Banks didn't want his books sold in Israel, and Harrison probably shares his politics. Are there, to your knowledge, many writers who don't permit their work to be sold in your country? We hear about academic boycotts, but less about writers opting out.

Jun-18-13		Annie K.: <Switch> forgot again. Ah well, that means more spoils for you... ;) <Dom> just ordered the trilogy from eBay, which seems somewhat less expensive than Amazon. Should be here in 2 weeks to a month or so. :) I don't really know about writers who don't want to sell here - hard to tell in the absence of an actual statement by them to that effect. It could also be the local bookstore chain's management's decision not to order their books... plus the inability to locate a given author in the store's database could just be the personal incompetence of a store clerk whose English spelling skills are often not the best. :s

Jun-18-13		Domdaniel: <A> True. And I also had problems locating the Harrison books here in Ireland. About a year ago I was told that Nova Swing was out of print, and nobody seemed to know if it would be reprinted to accompany the 3rd volume, Empty Space. Then last month I saw Empty Space on the bookstore shelves, along with an advert for the reprint of Nova Swing. Even then it took a few weeks to track it down - and this is from a mainstream publisher, Gollancz. Hey, they even published me once upon a time.

Jun-18-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: No one ever won a game by resigning it :) [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2013.06.18"] [Round "?"] [White "NN"] [Black "Quylthulg"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1866"] [BlackElo "1918"] [ECO "B20"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. e4 c5 2. Ne2 Nc6 3. Nbc3 b6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 e6 6. Ndb5 d6 7. Bf4 e5 8. Be3 a6 9. Na3 b5 10. Nd5 Nf6 11. Bb6 Qd7 12. Nc7+ Ke7 13. Nxa8 Qb7 14. Be3 Qxa8 15. f3 Be6 16. c4 b4 17. Nc2 Nd7 18. b3 g6 19. Bd3 Bg7 20. O-O f5 21. exf5 gxf5 22. Bg5+ Nf6 23. Qe1 h6 24. Bd2 a5 25. Rd1 Nd7 26. Qh4+ Bf6 27. Qxh6 Rxh6 {White resigns} 0-1

Jun-20-13		Domdaniel: Hey, Annie. It is now six months since I played a game of chess, and I don't miss it. I reckon I can reach 12 months before I start pining for the open files. One downside, however, is that I have nothing to post here except, yanno, opinions. And we know what they're worth.

Jun-20-13		hms123: <Dom> They are worth a lot if they are yours.

Jun-20-13		Annie K.: <Switch> just played through game - cute. <No one ever won a game by resigning it :)> Yeah, that's another one of those things I always say! ;) <Dom> Hey. :) I'd say more or less what <H> said, but he already said it. :p So I think I'll just point out that - with the possible exception of the first Nickel game, when I wasn't around much - I've never really seen your forum posting (as in: the forums, not the live game pages) to be more than about 10% concerned with chess matters at any time... so until you regain a healthy addiction to Caistic Lore, I suppose we can manage with the other 90%. ;)

Jun-20-13		Annie K.: <Dom> oh, yeah, re: <Gollancz> - oddly enough, while there are all sorts of publishers - even UK ones - around here, I've never seen a Gollancz book in Israel that I recall. I saw the name last week, while looking for the Harrison series online, and recognized it from your earlier mention of "the Gollancz anthology" your story appeared in. :)

Jun-21-13		Domdaniel: <A> That's a strange absence. Old Mr Gollancz, the founder, was of a Hebrew persuasion, as might be guessed. Also a leftist. But the company - once a quirky independent with a sci-fi specialization - is now owned by a multinational corp. Can't imagine 'em doing anything to hurt the bottom line.

Jun-21-13		Annie K.: Could be a Steimatzky (the owners and name of the local bookstore chain) decision rather than a Gollancz one, as I said. :) Also, I haven't really paid attention to publishers in the last ten years or so... most of my book hoard predates that time, but I can't vouch for who's in or out these days.

Jun-21-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> Have I ever said anything about the <baleful influence of the fawn pawn>? I'm not quite sure :) [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2013.06.21"] [Round "?"] [White "NN"] [Black "Quylthulg"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1771"] [BlackElo "1938"] [ECO "A00"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. Nc3 c5 2. Nf3 d5 3. e4 d4 4. Ne2 Nc6 5. Ng3 Nf6 6. a3 h5 7. h4 Bg4 8. Bc4 Ne5 9. Be2 Bxf3 10. gxf3 d3 11. cxd3 Nxd3+ 12. Bxd3 Qxd3 13. Qe2 c4 14. b4 g6 15. Bb2 Bg7 16. e5 Nd5 17. Qxd3 cxd3 18. Ne4 Rc8 19. O-O Rc2 20. Rab1 O-O 21. Rfc1 Rfc8 22. Nc5 Nf4 23. Kh2 b6 24. Ne4 Ne2 25. Re1 Rxb2 26. Rxb2 Bxe5+ 27. Kh3 Bxb2 28. Nc3 Bxc3 29. dxc3 Rxc3 30. Rd1 e5 31. a4 f5 32. a5 bxa5 33. bxa5 Ra3 34. a6 Rxa6 35. Rxd3 Nf4+ 36. Kg3 Nxd3 37. f4 e4 38. f3 e3 {White resigns} 0-1 Bonus points for working out where my opponent could have won :-)

Jun-22-13		Annie K.: I'm pretty sure you may have mentioned it, maybe. ;) <Bonus points for working out where my opponent could have won :-)> 1.e4? =) ok, lessee... Oh, yeah, that good'ole trap - 9.Nxe5.

Jun-23-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: Yup :) Congrats on qualifying! Impressive final sprint - just work a bit on those first 90 laps and you'll be a medal contender :-)

Jun-23-13		Annie K.: Thx. :) That 700 c$ B-W-W ticket was worth nearly 8000... don't think I've ever seen that graphic before! =s Nice to be done with the qualifying thing. Now I can afford to play wilder in the next two legs, so watch out! ;)

Jun-24-13		MarkFinan: Annie? Have you paid for my premium membership again love? If so, im really thankful and kinda flattered because once more i really dont deserve it what with arguing with that fool qc this past month! Il wait for your reply before i comment further, but whoever it is id like to thank them :)

Jun-24-13		Annie K.: <Mark> glad to see you got a Preemie again, but it wasn't me this time! :)

Jun-24-13		MarkFinan: Well it is a mystery then! Iv now genuinely no idea! Could you do me a quick favor Annie, if i send you my password via facebook could you activate my forum for me please? I actually sent you a message earlier anyway :)

Jun-24-13		Annie K.: Sure, I'll head over to FB. :)

Jun-24-13		MarkFinan: Iv sent you my password Annie :) Thank you.

Jun-24-13		Annie K.: Mission accomplished. ;)

Jun-24-13		MarkFinan: Thank you very much AK47 :) x

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