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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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Aug-23-13		visayanbraindoctor: Regarding Seeding Through Rating into the Candidates of 4 Top Rated Players And The World Cup 2013 (Also see http://www.fide.com/FIDE/handbook/r... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_...) Caruana http://ratings.fide.com/id.phtml?ev... 2013-Jul 2796 2013-Jun 2774 2013-May 2774 2013-Apr 2772 2013-Mar 2760 2013-Feb 2757 2013-Jan 2781 2012-Dec 2782 2012-Nov 2786 2012-Oct 2772 2012-Sep 2773 2012-Aug 2773 Average 33300/ 12 = 2775 Karjakin http://ratings.fide.com/id.phtml?ev... 2013-Jul 2776 2013-Jun 2782 2013-May 2767 2013-Apr 2786 2013-Mar 2786 2013-Feb 2786 2013-Jan 2780 2012-Dec 2775 2012-Nov 2775 2012-Oct 2780 2012-Sep 2778 2012-Aug 2785 Average: 33356/ 12 = 2779.57 Grischuk http://ratings.fide.com/id.phtml?ev... 2013-Jul 2780 2013-Jun 2779 2013-May 2779 2013-Apr 2764 2013-Mar 2764 2013-Feb 2764 2013-Jan 2764 2012-Dec 2764 2012-Nov 2764 2012-Oct 2752 2012-Sep 2754 2012-Aug 2763 Average: 33191/ 12 = 2765.91 Radjabov http://ratings.fide.com/id.phtml?ev... 2013-Jul 2733 2013-Jun 2733 2013-May 2745 2013-Apr 2793 2013-Mar 2793 2013-Feb 2793 2013-Jan 2793 2012-Dec 2793 2012-Nov 2793 2012-Oct 2792 2012-Sep 2788 2012-Aug 2788 Average: 33337/ 12 = 2778.08 The above data shows: Karjakin 2779.57 > Radjabov 2778.08 > Caruana 2775 > Grischuk 2765.91 This indicates that if Aronian and Kramnik get into the finals of the World Cup, Karjakin and Radjabov would qualify via ratings. If only one of either Aronian or Kramnik makes it, then only Karjakin would qualify via ratings. If Karjakin and either Aronian or Kramnik finish at the top, then the one of latter two who would not qualify in the World Cup would still qualify via ratings and so would Radjabov. I would like to point out a peculiarity of Raja's data. In the period November 2012 to April 2013, his ELO rating stayed the same at 2793. According to http://ratings.fide.com/hist.phtml?..., Raja did not play in classical competitive events from December 2012 to April 2013, or 5 months. April 2013 No Games March 2013 No Games February 2013 No Games January 2013 No Games December 2012 No Games During this time span his ELO rating stayed at a whopping 2793. http://ratings.fide.com/id.phtml?ev... 2013-Apr 2793 2013-Mar 2793 2013-Feb 2793 2013-Jan 2793 2012-Dec 2793 2012-Nov 2793 This certainly affected the final calculation of the average because one has to multiply 2793 by 6. If one looks at the other players, they were mostly active and their ratings had typical ups and downs, for the nearly half a year that Raja was not and was registering his ceiling 2793 rating for several consecutive months. I believe this artificially skewed his average to the right. This implies that one possible reason that allowed Raja to retain a high ELO rating for such a long time, sufficient to make him a potential Candidate via the seeding via rating criterion, was his 'semi-retirement'. I would like to point this out because this is one way that the seeding via rating criterion can be manipulated so as to get into the Candidates in as safe a manner as possible. I would like to emphasize that Raja may not have done this intentionally; I have heard comments he has had personal problems.

Aug-23-13		visayanbraindoctor: <Annie> You might find the following discussion between <twinlark> and I interesting. <<>twinlark: <visayanbraindoctor> <The end subconscious conclusion of this thinking is that the newest generation, my generation, is the best in everything. I call it the narcissistic generation attitude. It's not true for all aspects of humanity.> This is not just true of chess but of all aspects of life, especially sport. Amusingly, an archeologist and science writer from Western Australia set out to prove the case that modern man is It: fitter, stronger and faster than he ever was. His evidence-based findings were actually that modern males are inferior in almost every significant respect to our forbears from previous centuries and millennia, including in speed, strength, durability, memory, military prowess, and pretty much every other aspect on which modern men pride themselves, apart from consumerism. The average Roman soldier was tougher than our toughest commandos, athletes were stronger (the Greek weight lifters and wrestlers would have ROFLTAOed at modern athletes) and faster, archers had far greater range and accuracy, and a Neanderthal woman would have been stronger than Alexey Voyevoda, the world arm wresting champion. The writer is Peter McAllister and his book is titled <Manthropology: the Science Of Why the Modern Male Is Not The Man He Used To Be>. The chapter names are worth repeating: Brawn Bravado Battle Balls Bards Beauty Babies It's an entertaining read and provides plenty of food for thought.> I reviewed some of you posts, and found the above buried in the WC pages. Here is a fascinating article on the strength of Roman gladiators. <But "almost all the individuals are male, very robust and mostly above average height -- features which would also be consistent with a gladiator interpretation. Many also have muscle attachment marks on their arm bones suggesting severe muscle stress," he said.> http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/e... And they had huge and very robust skeletons. That indicates massive muscles. http://images.search.yahoo.com/sear... These men would easily make mincemeat out of today's so-called best fighters. They had to be the best because their lives depended on it. A modern fighter could just access other sources of livelihood such as advertisements or fanboy patrons.

Aug-23-13		visayanbraindoctor: The earliest Homo sapiens subspecies <Homo sapiens idaltu> was a veritable giant compared to modern man, especially to my physically neotenous East Asian race. http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/...; http://www.berkeley.edu/news/multim... If a man of that size and bulk would walk the local Visayan-populated streets even in modern clothes, every one here would be staring at him in shock. The Neanderthals had even more massive skeletons. http://images.search.yahoo.com/sear... You are right, even a female Neanderthal could probably beat today's best arm wrestler. One might ask why these ancient humans had a short average lifespan? The answers: 1. They did not have an answer to infectious diseases, or even antibiotics for common wounds. Since almost every male became a hunter by profession, wounds incurred in the profession must have been pretty common. Since I operate at a rate of perhaps 3 or 4 major cases a week, it's simply inevitable the the knife or suture needle slips and pokes another hole on my fingers. One can imagine the terrible woulds ancient hunters incurred while hunting dangerous game. Infection then sets in and they simply die. It is well-known in infectious disease medicine that a densely populated area is more vulnerable to the spread of infectious diseases. In the ancient human world, this was kept under control because the tribes mostly lived apart. If one tribe got wiped out by smallpox or other severe disease entities, the killing would end there, unless another tribe also catches the infection. Presumably, whenever humans began to overpopulate any region, plagues of diseases, that today can be controlled by antibiotics and modern hygiene, would probably decimate them. If today all knowledge of antibiotics, and infectious disease control disappeared, what would happen when the next Yersinis plague sets in, or the Influenza pandemic, or even smallpox? With today's more crowded cities, the slaughter of whole medieval era human populations by Yersinia pestis (in some cases killing off 2/3 of populations), would not even compare. 2. They were limited by food supply given their hunter-gatherer societies. There is very strong proof of this. Population in China, Central and West Asia, North Africa, and Europe experienced growth spurts every time agriculture was introduced. This is also true for other species of creatures. El Nino occurs, no upwelling, no plankton, and anchovy populations crash. Followed by sea birds and seals. Perhaps followed by humans who are dependent on fish for food, except that we now have agriculture and so it does not happen. Again bacteria and viruses are inextricably linked to mortality due to malnutrition. The first ones to die would malnourished children, who often have weak resistance to infectious diseases. 3. Furthermore, ancient humans regularly fell prey to predators, just like most other mammals. Eagles eat human babies: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Earl... Most of the predator mortality of ancient humans was probably caused by leopards, who just love eating primates. There are apparently even leopards that specialized in hunting primates. And if a leopard catches an ancient human without weapons away from his tribe, no amount of muscle our huge ancestor packs would avail against a big cat's fangs and claws, quickness, and even more powerful muscles. Cats are superbly designed killing machines. http://www.academia.edu/1399074/Tap... "The very first Australopithecine discovery of a juvenile appeared to have been a victim of a giant eagle. At another site, there was convincing evidence that hominid remains were the remnants of leopard meals. At the site of Swartkrans, there was direct evidence that at least some of the South African early hominid fossils were victims of leopards. An immature skull was found with twin puncture marks, indicating a leopard bite mark." http://www.australopithecus.webs.co... Nowadays, modern humans live longer because we have agriculture as the main source of food that prevents malnutrition, and antibiotics to ward off infectious diseases, and weapons to shoot down predators. Not so with ancient humans. Most of our ancestors probably perished by bacteria and virus or death by leopard.

Aug-24-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: Another fun game... :s [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2013.08.24"] [Round "?"] [White "NN"] [Black "Quylthulg"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1868"] [BlackElo "1935"] [ECO "C00"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. e4 e6 2. d3 c5 3. Nd2 b6 4. Ngf3 Bb7 5. c3 Ne7 6. Qc2 Nbc6 7. Be2 Qc8 8. h4 d5 9. h5 h6 10. g4 a5 11. Rg1 b5 12. a3 a4 13. g5 hxg5 14. Nxg5 Qc7 15. Nf1 Na5 16. Be3 Nb3 17. Rd1 Nc6 18. Ng3 d4 19. Bc1 O-O-O 20. Bg4 Ne5 21. Be2 Be7 22. cxd4 Nxd4 23. Qd2 Bxg5 24. Qxg5 Nef3+ 25. Bxf3 Nxf3+ 26. Ke2 Nxg5 27. Bxg5 f6 28. Be3 f5 29. exf5 exf5 30. Nxf5 Rhf8 31. Rxg7 Bf3+ 32. Ke1 Rxf5 33. Rxc7+ Kxc7 34. Rc1 Rxd3 35. Bxc5 Rd1+ 36. Rxd1 Bxd1 37. h6 Bc2 38. Be3 Rh5 39. Kd2 Bg6 40. Kc3 Kc6 41. Kb4 Rh4+ 42. Ka5 Be4 43. Kb4 Bd3+ 44. Kc3 Bc4 45. Kb4 Bg8+ 46. Kc3 Kd5 47. Kd2 Kc4 48. Ke2 Kb3 49. Bg5 Rh5 50. f4 Kxb2 51. Kf3 Kxa3 52. Kg4 Bf7 53. f5 b4 54. f6 b3 55. Kf5 b2 56. Ke5 b1=Q 57. Kd6 Qb3 58. Ke7 Qe6+ 59. Kf8 Rxg5 60. h7 Qe8# {White checkmated} 0-1 Moral of the story: to work, an attack needs a target :) It's no use being a good shot if you're aiming at empty air.

Aug-25-13		Annie K.: Whoa, that's a lot to catch up with! Will do, by and by. Thanks, everybody. :) <Jess: <<Richard> is especially grateful.>> Yeah, I bet he is! ;) Meanwhile, I'm just home from an OTB tournament - 6 rounds, 15 0 rapid, started at 16:00, which is an excellent time for me, though I had to take the day off work... unrated, alas, but still great fun, as I haven't played OTB in over a year. Result 4/6, which is my best tournament result yet (had 3.5/6 twice before, one at 25 0 rapid and one classical), so maybe it did help that I wasn't half asleep for a change. ;p Opponent/result breakdown goes thusly: 1. as White, against some guy who claimed to be a noob and asked a lot of silly questions, yet once we started to play, he exhibited suspicious familiarity with a standard e4 opening... - a win. :p 2. as Black, against a 2240 - a loss. 3. as White, against a little kid, whose dad and older brother I know to be very strong players, but this kid ain't there yet - a win. 4. as Black, against a 2050 - a loss. Um, I figured it wouldn't be polite to beat the TD's assistant? ;) 5. as White, against an older teenager, whose rating I didn't check - a win, he was ok, but missed some tactics. 6. as Black, against a 2003 rated player - a win. This is the one game I'm quite proud of, even more so because it was one of the last games to end, so it attracted quite a crowd from the players who already finished their games, and rated several 'very well played' remarks from high places. ;D

Aug-25-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: Sounds like you had a good tournament, especially that last game. Any chance you could post it here for us to rip apart? ;-) The beginner reminds me of this story :) Willem Jan Muhring

Aug-25-13		Annie K.: <Switch> heh, thanks! :) At 15 0 there's no writing moves down, so of course I don't remember the whole game, but I think I did manage to reconstruct the ending, rather to my surprise. ;p click for larger view I'm Black; my 2003 rated opponent is White. He had about 1.5 minutes, I had about 4. I had just played Qa2-b2. 1. g5 Qe5+ 2. Qg3 Ng4+ 3. Kh3 Nxf2+ 4. Qxf2 Re3+ 5. Kg4 Qd4+ 6. Qf4 h5+ 0-1 I probably should have played 2...Rh1+, a very effective option, but I kinda liked my solution too, and so did the spectators... ;)

Aug-25-13		Abdel Irada: From your opponent's perspective, the worst of it is that he was probably winning easily with 2. g3. I suppose it was time pressure that led him to interpose the queen. ∞

Aug-25-13		Annie K.: <AI> well, maybe not so easily after 2. g3 Re3. :) I could probably just simplify and win on time if say 3. Qf4 Qxf4.

Aug-25-13		Abdel Irada: After 2. g3, Re3, I rather like 3. Re2. Once the heavy pieces come off, it's possible to rattle off quite a few moves in a minute and a half. But I quibble. Congratulations are still the order of the day. :-) ∞

Aug-26-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> Out of pure curiosity, why 0...Qb2 and not 0...Qa1? Can't see how b2 could possibly be a better square for the queen... especially with that magic bishop on d3 :s Just played some very fun games, all against the same opponent :) [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2013.08.26"] [Round "?"] [White "Quylthulg"] [Black "NN"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "1932"] [BlackElo "1832"] [ECO "A15"] [TimeControl "300"] 1. c4 Nf6 2. e3 c5 3. Nf3 e6 4. Nc3 d5 5. a3 d4 6. Ne2 Nc6 7. Nf4 e5 8. Nh3 e4 9. Nfg1 d3 10. f3 Bxh3 11. Nxh3 Bd6 12. Nf2 Qc7 13. fxe4 Bxh2 14. Bxd3 Bg3 15. O-O Ne5 16. Bc2 Bxf2+ 17. Rxf2 Neg4 18. Rf4 g5 19. Rxg4 Nxg4 20. Qxg4 h6 21. Qf5 Qd7 22. b3 O-O-O 23. Kf2 Qxf5+ 24. exf5 Rd7 25. Be4 Rhd8 26. Bd5 Re7 27. Bb2 Rd6 28. Rh1 Kc7 29. Bg7 f6 30. Bf8 Rh7 31. Bxd6+ Kxd6 32. g4 b6 33. d4 a5 34. Be6 Ke7 35. dxc5 bxc5 36. Rd1 Ke8 37. Rd6 h5 38. Ra6 Re7 39. Ra8# {Black checkmated} 1-0 [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2013.08.26"] [Round "?"] [White "NN"] [Black "Quylthulg"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1826"] [BlackElo "1938"] [ECO "A40"] [TimeControl "300"] 1. d4 b6 2. e4 Bb7 3. Bd3 Nf6 4. Nd2 e6 5. Ngf3 d5 6. e5 Nfd7 7. a3 c5 8. c3 a5 9. Bb5 Ba6 10. Bxa6 Nxa6 11. O-O Nc7 12. Re1 Qc8 13. Nf1 Be7 14. Ng3 Qa6 15. Ng5 h6 16. Nh3 cxd4 17. cxd4 Nb5 18. Be3 O-O-O 19. b4 a4 20. Qe2 Kb7 21. Rec1 Na7 22. b5 Qxb5 23. Qg4 g5 24. Rab1 Qd3 25. Qh5 Qg6 26. Qd1 Rc8 27. Qxa4 b5 28. Rxb5+ Nxb5 29. Qxb5+ Nb6 30. Rb1 Rc6 31. a4 Kc7 32. a5 Rb8 33. axb6+ Rbxb6 {White resigns} 0-1 [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2013.08.26"] [Round "?"] [White "Quylthulg"] [Black "NN"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "1944"] [BlackElo "1820"] [ECO "A15"] [TimeControl "300"] 1. c4 Nf6 2. e3 c5 3. Nf3 d6 4. b3 e5 5. Bb2 Be6 6. d3 Nc6 7. Nc3 Be7 8. Be2 Qd7 9. e4 a6 10. Nd5 Bxd5 11. cxd5 Nd4 12. Nxd4 exd4 13. O-O h5 14. h3 g5 15. f4 g4 16. f5 O-O-O 17. b4 Rdg8 18. h4 g3 19. bxc5 dxc5 20. Bf3 Ng4 21. Qc1 Kb8 22. Ba3 Rc8 23. Rb1 Bd6 24. Rb6 Qe7 25. Qg5 f6 26. Qd2 Ne5 27. Be2 Rhg8 28. Rfb1 c4 29. Bxd6+ Qxd6 30. Rxd6 c3 31. Qc2 {Black resigns} 1-0 [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2013.08.26"] [Round "?"] [White "NN"] [Black "Quylthulg"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1821"] [BlackElo "1943"] [ECO "A10"] [TimeControl "300"] 1. c4 b6 2. f3 Bb7 3. d4 e6 4. e4 f5 5. Nc3 Bb4 6. Bd3 Nc6 7. Ne2 e5 8. d5 Nd4 9. Bd2 Nxe2 10. Qxe2 f4 11. a3 Bc5 12. b4 Bd4 13. Rc1 Qh4+ 14. Kd1 Ba6 15. Nb5 Bxb5 16. cxb5 Rc8 17. d6 Kf7 18. Rxc7 Rxc7 19. dxc7 Ne7 20. Bb1 Rc8 21. Qc4+ Kg6 22. Ba2 Kh6 23. g3 Qh3 24. Bxf4+ exf4 25. Qxd4 Qg2 26. Qd6+ Ng6 27. Re1 Qxa2 28. gxf4 Qb3+ 29. Ke2 Qc2+ 30. Kf1 Qxc7 31. Rd1 Qc3 32. Rd3 Qc1+ 33. Kf2 Rc2+ 34. Kg3 Qg1+ 35. Kh3 Rxh2# {White checkmated} 0-1

Aug-26-13		Annie K.: <AI: <After 2. g3, Re3, I rather like 3. Re2. Once the heavy pieces come off, it's possible to rattle off quite a few moves in a minute and a half.>> But he has no winning advantage left either. Say 1. g5 Qe5+ 2. g3 Re3 3. Re2 Rxe2+ 4. Qxe2 Qxe2+ 5. Bxe2 hxg5 6. hxg5 Ne4 7. g6+ Kh6, and I don't think this is won at all, let alone in 1.5 minutes. Anyhoo, the main point was, I think, that he didn't realize how much trouble he was getting into at all; he was focusing on driving my N away from f6 so he can play f6 with check and start his own attack. My "spite checks", he considered some temporary annoyance, to be gotten out of the way, so he can be about his business. And I was pleased enough to let him think so - that was why I went pawngrabbing off to a2 with my Q in the first place. ;p <Switch> and that answers your question too. :) I was going to play Qe5+ after his (expected) g5 anyway, so I saw no difference between which square of the diagonal I moved to first - plus, I didn't want to spook him into playing Kg3; I needed my hoped-for later Ng4 to be check!

Aug-26-13		Annie K.: Heh, magic Bishop - you saw what I did there? ;D Yeah, I posted a wrong diagram first, so I reposted with correction. :) Pssssst - there was a photographer at the event... check out the new pics in my album! ;) https://picasaweb.google.com/anniek... The second pic appears to be from my fifth game, a White win. This was the position on the board: click for larger view ...just before I retook with dxc6. I can't remember how the game went from there, except that it ended in mate. How the position came about, also seems to be quite confusing; although it looks like fairly early opening, we actually did a lot of minor piece maneuvering before. :s

Aug-27-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: 1. g5 Qe5+ 2. g3 Re3 3. Re2? isn't a good idea... 3...Rxf3 4. Rxe5 Ng4+ 5. Kg2 Nxe5 :)

Aug-27-13		visayanbraindoctor: News from the world of Biology. Seals eat sharks?! I knew that Orcas and Sperms Whales and some of the other bigger toothed whales do so regularly, but it turns our seals also do so. http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/... http://now.msn.com/seal-eats-five-s...

Aug-27-13		visayanbraindoctor: Links to you tube videos and pictures of sea lions eating sharks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JD0... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wx6... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmMy... Here's the famous video of an orca killing a great white shark. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6Si...

Aug-27-13		Annie K.: Thanks, <Switch>! :) Sorry, I'm still too tired to do anything... other than playing blitz. ;s [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2013.08.28"] [White "NN"] [Black "AnnieK"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1516"] [BlackElo "1530"] [ECO "D04"] [TimeControl "600"] 1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. e3 Bf5 4. c4 e6 5. Nc3 c5 6. b3 Bg4 7. h3 Bh5 8. Be2 dxc4 9. bxc4 Qa5 10. Bd2 cxd4 11. Nd5 Qd8 12. Nxf6+ Qxf6 13. Nxd4 Bg6 14. O-O Bd6 15. Qa4+ Nd7 16. Nb5 Bb8 17. Bc3 Qg5 18. Bxg7 Be4 19. f3 Qxg7 20. fxe4 Qg3 21. Rf3 Qh2+ 22. Kf2 Rg8 23. Bf1 Bg3+ 24. Ke2 a6 25. Rd1 O-O-O 26. Nd4 Ne5 27. Rf6 Nd7 28. Rxf7 Nc5 29. Qa5 Nxe4 30. Nxe6 Rxd1 31. Kxd1 Be5 32. Rg7 Bxg7 33. Nxg7 Rxg7 34. Qf5+ Rd7+ 35. Ke1 Qg3+ 36. Ke2 Nc3# 0-1

Aug-27-13		Annie K.: ...and Fischerandom... ;) [Event "rated wild/fr match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2013.08.28"] [White "AnnieK"] [Black "NN"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "1819"] [BlackElo "1651"] [TimeControl "600"] [Variant "wild/fr"] [SetUp "1"] [FEN "brkbnnrq/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/BRKBNNRQ w KQkq - 0 1"] click for larger view 1. b3 b6 2. Nf3 Bxf3 3. gxf3 Ng6 4. e4 e6 5. Be2 d6 6. Ng3 Bf6 7. d4 Nf4 8. Ba6+ Kd8 9. e5 dxe5 10. dxe5 Bh4 11. Rd1+ Ke7 12. Qe1 Bxg3 13. fxg3 Nd5 14. c4 c6 15. cxd5 cxd5 16. Qb4+ Kd8 17. Bb5 Rc8+ 18. Kd2 h5 19. Bxe8 Kxe8 20. Bd4 h4 21. g4 Qh7 22. Bc3 f5 23. exf6 gxf6 24. Qb5+ Kd8 25. Bxf6+ Kc7 26. Rbc1+ Kb8 27. Rc6 Qh6+ 28. g5 Rxg5 29. Rxc8+ Kxc8 30. Rc1+ Kb8 31. Qe8+ Kb7 32. Qe7+ Ka6 33. Bxg5 1-0 click for larger view Ohmygoodness, did I ackshly play 1.b3?! ;s

Aug-28-13		visayanbraindoctor: News from the world of Biology. "Kyrgystan battles bubonic plague" http://www.news.com.au/world-news/b... Wikipedia article on Yersinia pestis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yersi... Yersinia pestis is easily treatable with antibiotics, but if humanity did not have antibiotics, the proliferation of crowded human cities could be disastrous. Modern human civilization might well be dependent on modern Medicine, by which we keep on warding off infectious diseases from our more crowded habitations. This disease can be directly spread by coughing or sneezing in its pneumonic form. It does not need fleas to spread, as is commonly believed. Totally uncontrolled, Yersinia pestis may well repeat its 60% kill rate in medieval times, meaning it has the capacity to kill billions of today's population.

Aug-29-13		Gregor Samsa Mendel: <visayanbraindoctor>--The era of antibiotics may be coming to a close: http://www.theguardian.com/society/...

Aug-29-13		Annie K.: Hmm. Sounds like it may be a good idea to consider having an appendectomy in the near future - whether you need one or not. :s <Tony> opinion please? :)

Aug-29-13		OhioChessFan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ySZ... I love the guilty look at the end.

Aug-29-13		Annie K.: <Ohio> awww, so cute... one of my 13-y/o girls loves to drag plastic grocery bags out of their can to play with them, and my 1-y/o boy understands about opening doors, though mostly just to hide in closets... so between them, my kitties have got this covered. Neither of them, however, feels the slightest bit of guilt about it. ;s

Aug-29-13		Annie K.: <VBD> still didn't catch up with much, but I notice you're referring to the H.S. Idaltu as relative giants again... and, while that's pretty likely, I think I should note again that only skulls were found in that excavation, not whole skeletons. So we don't really know how big they were. :) Neanderthals were massive, certainly, there's plenty of evidence for that, although they were relatively short. The most startling feature I have noticed in a reconstruction of Neanderthal physique is that their "stocky" look is actually a result of their ribcages extending low enough to reach below their pelvic bones, so that they could have no visible hips at all. Even an emaciated Neanderthal would look "fat", at least around the middle, by modern human standards!

Aug-29-13		tpstar: <The era of antibiotics is coming to a close. In just a couple of generations, what once appeared to be miracle medicines have been beaten into ineffectiveness by the bacteria they were designed to knock out. Once, scientists hailed the end of infectious diseases. Now, the post-antibiotic apocalypse is within sight.> The author has a valid point, but the presentation strikes me as a tad hysterical. Most hospitals keep at least one super-antibiotic on reserve which requires an Infectious Disease specialist to approve, but it usually works spectacularly. There is also a resurgence of previously underused antibiotic therapy, like Bactrim for MRSA. Lately Big Pharma has not put out many new antibiotics, as presumably the profit margin just isn't there, yet that may change with a Big Government push. I had a patient with Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus (VRE) in her abdomen, back when there was zero treatment. And she lived. =)

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