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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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Jul-16-13		hms123: <Annie> <Switch> is right. <b6> is a winner. Here's today's miniature: [Event "unrated'"] [Site "FICS"] [Date "????.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "NN"] [Black "hms123"] [Result "0-1"] [PlyCount "34"] [TimeControl "10 0"] 1. e4 e6 2. e5 d5 3. exd6 cxd6 4. d4 d5 5. Nf3 Nd7 6. Nc3 a6 7. a3 Bd6 8. Be3 Ngf6 9. Bd3 O-O 10. O-O e5 11. dxe5 Nxe5 12. Nxe5 Bxe5 13. Bc5 Re8 14. Qd2 Qc7 15. Bxh7+ Nxh7 16. Qxd5 Nf6 17. Qc4 b6 0-1 click for larger view

Jul-16-13		Thanh Phan: Seems more of a learning set with adding clarifiers to meaning, like cô chị bạn trai lý instead of just chị bạn trai, and less of an independant language

Jul-16-13		Annie K.: Couldn't find any takers for FR at FICS tonight. Regular chess seems so simple right now... ;s [Event "FICS rated blitz game"] [Date "2013.07.17"] [White "AnnieK"] [Black "NN"] [WhiteElo "1556"] [BlackElo "1223"] [TimeControl "600+0"] [Mode "ICS"] [Result "1-0"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bc4 a6 4. c3 Nf6 5. h3 Nbd7 6. Qe2 b5 7. Bb3 Bb7 8. Bc2 g6 9. d4 Bg7 10. O-O O-O 11. Rd1 Re8 12. e5 Nd5 13. e6 N7f6 14. exf7+ Kxf7 15. Ng5+ Kg8 16. Qe6+ 1-0 <Thanh> exactly. :) Knowing more than one language makes kids (well, people in general, but kids even more so) more mentally versatile, as well as more critical of the weaknesses of each language. That's what getting to compare different setups will do to you. ;) In that "new language" study, I think those kids simply learned from English that the past and present tenses should be somewhat more related to each other than to the future tense, and maybe it had a point there; on the other hand, they could see that their aboriginal language got along just fine without a dozen subtenses of past and present, and therefore they felt English was overdoing it a bit. So they kept the differentiation idea, but simplified it, sensibly enough. Only natural. :D <hms> well, that does look like a case of QED, doesn't it? ;) <shiva> thanks for the comic. I can't really relate to it much - doesn't match my lifestyle in almost any way - but it's an interesting glimpse into his. I'll check out Quora one of these weekends, too. Meanwhile, a question for you - has premium membership been useful to you? If yes, I can extend it another year. :)

Jul-17-13		shivasuri4: <Annie K.>, I've thought about it for a while, but no, don't bother renewing my premium membership. It was useful, but only to an extent. The only feature I had used consistently was the Opening Explorer, and surely that's not worth the 30 dollars or so you'd pay. Such good money shouldn't be wasted. Thank you for the kindness; it's been overwhelming. Here's a Quora page worth reading: http://www.quora.com/Humor/What-is-....

Jul-17-13		Annie K.: <shiva> thanks, some of those I already knew, but there were a few really funny ones that I haven't seen before. You're welcome. :) But the way I look at this is, that any money paid to cg.com is never "wasted". Actually, supporting my favorite site is about 60% the point of my sponsoring others; buying somebody a premium membership just happens to be one of the simplest ways to send cg a contribution. So whenever I think I can afford to chip in, I just pick a membership recipient. ;) As far as I'm concerned, using the Opening Explorer is one of the best uses of a preemie. So if it helps you, great - don't consider it a waste just because you're not using ALL the premium features ALL the time. (I doubt anybody does, btw) :D So how about it?

Jul-18-13		shivasuri4: I think <Eyal> uses all premium features, but yes, not all the time. :P You probably follow the principle "Time enjoyed is not time wasted." Well, it's your money, so I'll leave the decision to you. If I have the premium membership, I'll continue to use the Opening Explorer, as usual.

Jul-18-13		Annie K.: Heh. Yep! OK, you're set for another year. Might as well pick yourself an avatar. ;)

Jul-18-13		Annie K.: <FICS is currently down until further notification due to hacker activities> @#$^%$@#$^&#%&^#@!!? :(

Jul-18-13		brankat: No wonder <Switch> has not had time for CG, lately :-)

Jul-20-13		Annie K.: Hmm. I hope you're not suggesting that <Switch> did it. ;s Ah, well, two more games (same opponent) from ChessCube, then, for a new high rating of 2073: [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Date "2013.07.20"] [White "NN"] [Black "anniek1974@chesscube.com"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "2111"] [BlackElo "2046"] [TimeControl "600"] 1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 Nf6 4. Bd3 c5 5. b3 Nc6 6. Bb2 a6 7. Nbd2 b5 8. dxc5 Bxc5 9. O-O O-O 10. a3 Bd6 11. Nd4 Ne5 12. Be2 Bb8 13. f4 Ng6 14. Bd3 Bb7 15. Rf3 e5 16. Bxg6 fxg6 17. Ne6 Qb6 18. Nxf8 exf4 19. Bd4 Qd6 20. Nxg6 hxg6 21. exf4 Nh5 22. Be5 Qc5+ 23. Kf1 Bxe5 24. fxe5 d4 25. Rd3 Nf4 26. Nf3 Nxd3 27. Qxd3 Bxf3 28. gxf3 Qxe5 29. Qxg6 Rf8 30. Qg2 d3 31. Re1 Qd5 32. Re3 d2 33. Rd3 d1=Q+ 34. Rxd1 Qxd1+ 0-1 [Event "ChessCube Game"] [Date "2013.07.20"] [White "anniek1974@chesscube.com"] [Black "NN"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2060"] [BlackElo "2097"] [TimeControl "600"] 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Nf6 3. c4 e6 4. dxe6 Bxe6 5. d4 Bb4+ 6. Nc3 Ne4 7. Bd2 Qxd4 8. Nxe4 Qxe4+ 9. Be2 Bxd2+ 10. Qxd2 Bxc4 11. O-O-O O-O 12. Bf3 Qf5 13. Bxb7 Bxa2 14. Qd3 Qc5+ 15. Qc3 Qb5 16. Bxa8 c6 17. Nf3 Bd5 18. Nd4 Qb6 19. Nf5 f6 20. Ne7+ Kh8 21. Nxd5 cxd5 22. Bxd5 Na6 23. Kb1 Nc5 24. Qa3 Rb8 25. Rhe1 Na4 26. Rd2 Qa5 27. Qe3 h6 28. Bb3 Nc5 29. Bc2 Qb4 30. Qe8+ Rxe8 31. Rxe8# 1-0

Jul-21-13		Thanh Phan: Learning the value of judging a book by it's cover, also a neat book ^.^ https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...

Jul-21-13		Caissanist: Just an FYI for anyone who (like me) happens to land here wondering what happened to FICS. It looks like FICS is going to be down for a while. The main administrator account (chessty) was hacked, and the hacker apparently used his admin access to trash so much stuff as to make the site inoperable. It will take the admins until at least July 26 to restore the site, presumably from backups. The Wikipedia entry for FICS says there is a temporary server fics2.freechess.org running now.

Jul-21-13		Annie K.: <Thanh> heh - funny comments, too. <Caissanist> thanks for the update!

Jul-21-13		OhioChessFan: http://www.blogcdn.com/www.mandator...

Jul-21-13		OhioChessFan: http://o.aolcdn.com/dims-global/dim...

Jul-21-13		Annie K.: #1 - well, that's definitely filled a hole in my education... ;s #2 - cats are obviously quite good at chess. :)

Jul-24-13		Caissanist: Another FYI to anyone who uses FICS: the admin has posted a couple of updates on their status and asked everyone who sees them to spread the word: <Posted by Chessty. news 1507 1507 (Wed, Jul 24) Progress update Thank you all for your patience as we get things sorted out to bring us back online as soon as possible. As you are aware, we were hacked on July 18, 2013. We suffered severe damage. We are working hard on repairing all the damage and making progress. In the midst of doing this, we received word from layer42, where the main server has been stored, that they would be closing down the service that we use. We are using a new service on a trial run for now and will determine if it is an appropriate long term solution. Currently, the new server is running but restricted to staff only. All ratings changes that were made have been restored, and best ratings reset for the affected accounts. We are hoping to be able to open the server up to our members by the end of the week. The bots and mailing systems might not be up yet, but you will be able to log in and play games again. I will keep you posted as we continue to make progress. -Chessty >

Jul-24-13		Caissanist: I have created a new account http://www.chessgames.com/perl/act?... , instead of cluttering Annie's forum I will put any news items as to the current status in that account's profile from now on.

Jul-24-13		Annie K.: <Caissanist> thanks very much, and feel free to continue with the updates if you like. :) At least this forum will pop up on the recent kibitzing list when you post an update to it (and there are quite a few FICS users reading it, I think), ;) whereas a user profile is a bit harder to find. Here's a working link to it, anyway (the one you posted returns an error message): User: FICS Info

Jul-24-13		hms123: <Caissanist> Thanks for the updates on FICS.

Jul-24-13		FICS Info: You're both very welcome, and thanks for fixing my link :-). I'll post another message on here when the main server comes back online--in the meantime, the backup is working fine.

Jul-27-13		WCC Editing Project: You really are an "outstanding contributor" that's a fact. A timely reminder of a theme you've explained in convincing detail earlier about the "whatnot" topic. Timely reminder for me that is. Tks- A

Jul-27-13		Annie K.: <Jess> :) and tks 4 reminding me of an existing resource - time for some public 'splaining to be done, methinks, and I can draw from that.

Jul-28-13		wordfunph: <Annie K.> maligayang kaarawan!

Jul-28-13		Karpova: <Annie K.> Your psychological insight into other people is really impressive. Where people like me just try to get a glimpse through a hole in the wall, it seems as if that wall was just a one-way mirror to you. It's really a joy to read your insightful posts!

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