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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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Sep-14-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: The hardest thing in chess is winning a won game :) [Event "rated wild/fr match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2013.09.14"] [Round "?"] [White "NN"] [Black "Quylthulg"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [WhiteElo "2056"] [BlackElo "2263"] [TimeControl "120"] [Variant "wild/fr"] [SetUp "1"] [FEN "rknnrbbq/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RKNNRBBQ w KQkq - 0 1"] 1. e4 g6 2. Nc3 Bg7 3. f3 Nb6 4. Nb3 Nc6 5. O-O-O O-O-O 6. d4 d5 7. e5 f6 8. f4 g5 9. g3 h5 10. Bb5 h4 11. Be3 gxf4 12. gxf4 fxe5 13. fxe5 Be6 14. Bxc6 bxc6 15. Na5 c5 16. dxc5 Bxe5 17. cxb6 cxb6 18. Nxd5 Bxb2+ 19. Kb1 bxa5 20. Nxe7+ Kb8 21. Nc6+ Kc7 22. Bf4+ Kb6 23. Qg1+ Kxc6 24. Qg2+ Kb6 25. Be3+ Bd4 26. Bxd4+ Rxd4 27. Qf2 Bxa2+ 28. Kxa2 Rxe1 29. Rxe1 Qg8+ 30. Kb2 Qc4 31. Rd1 Qb4+ 32. Kc1 Qa3+ 33. Kb1 Qb4+ 34. Kc1 Qa3+ 35. Kb1 Qb4+ 36. Kc1 Qa3+ {Game drawn by repetition} 1/2-1/2 Understandably feeling I wasn't in my best form, my opponent challenged me to a rematch... [Event "rated wild/fr match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2013.09.14"] [Round "?"] [White "Quylthulg"] [Black "NN"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2255"] [BlackElo "2060"] [TimeControl "120"] [Variant "wild/fr"] [SetUp "1"] [FEN "nrqkrbbn/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/NRQKRBBN w KQkq - 0 1"] 1. e4 e5 2. Ng3 f6 3. f3 Bxa2 4. Bxa7 Bxb1 5. Bxb8 Qxb8 6. Qxb1 Nb6 7. Nb3 Be7 8. Be2 O-O 9. O-O c6 10. Nf5 Ng6 11. h4 Bd8 12. g3 Ne7 13. c3 Nxf5 14. exf5 d5 15. d4 Bc7 16. g4 exd4 17. Nxd4 Bh2+ 18. Kh1 Qg3 19. Qe1 Qh3 20. Rf2 Bg3+ 21. Kg1 Bxf2+ 22. Qxf2 Nc4 23. Bf1 Ne3 24. Bxh3 {Black resigns} 1-0

Sep-14-13		Thanh Phan: <The Mote in God's Eye novel> One of my favorites along with Lucifer's Hammer, Liked them more then The Postman, which I would also recommend ^.^ Funny, the first time I have seen the title, my thoughts were something like, Why is there a Note in Gods Eye? view from before coffee was found

Sep-14-13		Domdaniel: <VBD> I also read a couple of books from Brin's Uplift series ... I thought they were OK, but maybe a little heavy-handed. 'Existence' is much better ... in some ways it reminds me of Brunner's 'Stand on Zanzibar' -- a profusion of ideas, and a high level of conceptual density. Whatever that is. ;)

Sep-14-13		Domdaniel: <Thanh Phan> 'Mote', of course, means 'a particle of dust' or 'a speck' ... though there are other meanings: the writer William Burroughs had a brother named Mortimer, who was known informally in the family as 'Mote'. There are other possibilities. A 'Mote Spoon' is a perforated spoon used to remove tea leaves from a teacup. And 'mote' is also an old-fashioned form of the verb 'must', as in 'so mote it be' ...

Sep-14-13		Annie K.: <Switch> thx, I'll check them out in a bit. :) <VBD>, <Thanh> thanks for votes for Brin - sounds like he's worth getting around to, one of these days. ;) <Dom> hmm, so if you dust somebody off, have you <demoted> them? Heh - that particular derivation probably comes from 'might', as in 'power'.

Sep-14-13		Domdaniel: <Annie> Uh-huh ... and 'power' is derived from French, 'le pouvoir', and might is, um, 'right' ... ? Confusing, ain't it?

Sep-14-13		Annie K.: Yep, too complicated... better put the dust right back, I say - aka, 'remote'. ;)

Sep-15-13		Domdaniel: "The dust blows forward and the dust blows back" - Captain Beefheart. Heh, 'remote' is good... so hand back those fragments ... Re: mote control?

Sep-15-13		Annie K.: Quite. :) And you know that TV static, aka "snow", that's always looked more like 'virtual dust' to me... Thus the TV emotes. ;s

Sep-16-13		Domdaniel: <A> Yes, indeedy, it never looked much like snow to me either ... and I remember our first TV being switched on circa 1962, and being told that this was a snowfield. I was sceptical. Like any mote-rmouth in the Bates Mote-l.

Sep-17-13		Annie K.: <Dom> @4? Well done. Consider yourself promoted. :) <The King Is An Attacking Piece!> Well, mine is, anyway. ;p [Event "FICS rated blitz game"] [Date "2013.09.18"] [White "NN"] [Black "AnnieK"] [WhiteElo "1568"] [BlackElo "1565"] [TimeControl "600+0"] [Mode "ICS"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nf6 3. d3 h6 4. Nc3 Nc6 5. Nge2 Na5 6. Bb5 c6 7. Ba4 b5 8. Bb3 Nxb3 9. axb3 Bc5 10. O-O O-O 11. Ng3 Bb6 12. Be3 Bb7 13. Bxb6 Qxb6 14. Nf5 d5 15. exd5 cxd5 16. Re1 Rfe8 17. Qd2 Qc6 18. f3 a6 19. Qf2 Qe6 20. g4 Kh7 21. h3 g6 22. Ng3 Qc6 23. h4 Re7 24. g5 hxg5 25. hxg5 Nh5 26. Nxh5 gxh5 27. Qh2 Kg6 28. Rxe5 Rxe5 29. Qxe5 Re8 30. Qg3 d4 31. Ne4 Qxc2 32. Qd6+ Re6 33. Qf8 Bxe4 34. Qh6+ Kf5 35. fxe4+ Kg4 36. Qh7 Kg3 37. Kf1 Qf2# 0-1

Sep-18-13		visayanbraindoctor: <Domdaniel,Thanh Phan, Annie> Couldn't find a copy of Existence in the local bookstore. In the bookstores, there seems to be a glut of these young adult-romance-fantasy books about vampires, werewolves, fairies, angels, teenagers with supernatural powers. I decided to read some of them, and found out they have of mostly superficial action. Instead of a space opera, a fantasy opera.

Sep-18-13		visayanbraindoctor: "Antibiotic-resistant infections become a common cause of death" http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2013_... More news on bacterial drug resistance, although a tad sensational IMO. For most of the 4th world the problem is no money to buy antibiotics at all. This article has soothing new though. It talks about drug resistant bacteria evolving in pets that are given antibiotics.

Sep-18-13		Domdaniel: <visayanbraindoctor> Very true ... the quality of the average bookstore sci-fi selection has declined drastically. When I began reading sf in the 1970s, you could walk into an ordinary shop and find books by Ballard, Dick, Delany, Aldiss, etc etc. Now the shelves are full of puerile fantasy, supernatural genre pieces, and so on. It's still possible to find good books - such as those by M.John Harrison, William Gibson, et al -- but the good stuff is swamped by the mediocre.

Sep-18-13		Domdaniel: <Annie> -- <consider yourself promoted> -- Uh, are you calling me a Queen?

Sep-18-13		Annie K.: Heh - well, you could choose to underpromote, and be a Knight... or a Bishop if that's more your thing. ;) Reminds me of this pic: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/pho..., which I liked so much that I "borrowed" it from http://www.westmichiganchess.com/le..., just so I could link to it directly. :D (Thx <Tony>!) ;) PS - yeah, SF ain't what it used to be. :\ A friend once pointed out that bookstores seemed to have these SF versus fantasy cycles; there were "historically" whole decades wherein one flourished and the other declined. But there may be other factors involved this time - mass readership interest in printed books, not to mention attention spans, have declined since the internet took over.

Sep-18-13		Domdaniel: <A> But if it was Knight, Bish or Rook (the move ...Rc8 aka the 'Tour de France) then you'd have said "consider yourself underpromoted". After all, you are always precise in your utterances, nicht wahr? So 'promoted' implies Queen, and that's just the way it is. <since the internet took over> -- more sf readers, those who still read physical books, tend to order them from the nutterweb. So browsing in bookstores is left to a more casual type of reader, attracted by a more generic, cruder type of fiction. BTW, Pynchon's new book, Bleeding Edge, is published today. I don't have a copy yet, but I'm looking forward to it.

Sep-18-13		Annie K.: <Dom> In re: Internet vs Bookstores - yep, that's exactly my thinking too. New Pynchon book? Good for you. :) Title reminds me of a wonderful Russian SF novel that I've read in Hungarian, which would be 'The Razor's Edge' in English, by Ivan Yefremov. There may in fact be an English translation, I'm not sure. Heh, "consider yourself underpromoted". Would that be an insult, or is an underpromotion still a promotion? Ah, relativity. :s Anyhoo, plz not to take an umbrage, unless it looks like rain. ;)

Sep-18-13		Domdaniel: <A> This is Ireland -- it always looks like rain. But you know I would never take umbrage with you.

Sep-18-13		Annie K.: Awww... :) I didn't ackshly know an umbrage could look like rain, though. I thought it would look like an umbrage? Whatever that is. ;s

Sep-18-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> Every day we learn something new :) Weenink vs L Gans, 1930

Sep-18-13		Annie K.: <Switch> thanks for game! Yep, that's just what I meant - ok, "fighting piece" then. :) Just looked at your games too, very cute. I was shocked to see 1.e4 for a second there, then I remembered it was a fr game, so that's ok! ;)

Sep-19-13		Annie K.: Gotta love a fr game where the LSB is already on the <right> diagonal from the start... ;) [Event "rated wild/fr match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2013.09.20"] [White "AnnieK"] [Black "NN"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "1801"] [BlackElo "1858"] [TimeControl "600"] [Variant "wild/fr"] [SetUp "1"] [FEN "rbbkqrnn/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RBBKQRNN w KQkq - 0 1"] click for larger view 1. Ng3 c6 2. c3 Ng6 3. d4 d5 4. e4 dxe4 5. Qxe4 e6 6. Nf3 Nf6 7. Bg5 Qe7 8. Qd3 O-O 9. h4 h6 10. Bxf6 Qxf6 11. h5 Nf4 12. Qh7# 1-0

Sep-20-13		Domdaniel: Hold on a minute ... you mean "fr" stands for "Fischer Random"? I thought it was "French" ... ?!

Sep-20-13		Annie K.: :) it has never occurred to me to shorten the French - it's short enough as is. F-i-s-c-h-e-r-R-a-n-d-o-m, on the other hand... ;)

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