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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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Sep-21-13		Abdel Irada: <VBD: An apocalyptic science fiction scenario that could be possible in our present lifetime is based on the theoretical knowledge to genetically engineer an infectious pathogen that is resistant to all antibiotics. Imagine that some genocidal institution transfers all known genes of antibiotic resistance into Yersinia pestis and other pathogens, that can spread quite easily, and releases these strains all over the world? Once simultaneous cases begin, it would be quite difficult to stop the spread of multi pathogen plagues without antibiotics.> There's an online game based on this premise: "Pandemic 2" (http://www.crazymonkeygames.com/Pan...). The objective is to design a pathogen that will annihilate the human species (a temptation I'm sure we all feel from time to time), and it turns out there is one essential hurdle for the player to clear, and it is called Madagascar. Infect that, and you win; fail, and the best you can achieve is a draw. ∞

Sep-21-13		Abdel Irada: <VBD: And my, what sharp fangs you have grandma!> Say ... you're not from Innsmouth, are you? ;-) ∞

Sep-21-13		Abdel Irada: <Domdaniel: <Thanh Phan> -- < to allow their memories to be spent on the future and not the past> -- I wish I knew how to do that, to project 'memories' in either direction. Sometimes I remember the future, but it tends not to match the past ...> That may be why bidirectional temporal symmetry theory is now deprecated. ;-) ∞

Sep-21-13		Thanh Phan: <Abdel Irada> A short while before we were going through the Mork and Mindy shows, thought of this one after reading your comments about bidirectional temporal symmetry theory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIT... Incidentally there is a book I have been trying to find and I forgot the name, think it was one of our friends who borrowed it

Sep-21-13		Abdel Irada: <Thanh Phan>: Regrettably, I have an antique browser (which is what I can run on my antique computer), and therefore cannot watch YouTube videos. ∞

Sep-21-13		Thanh Phan: <Abdel Irada> Sorry to hear of that, I wonder if there is a way for you to find and watch this episode <Mork and Mindy Season 1 Episode 11 Old Fears>

Sep-21-13		Domdaniel: <Thanh Phan> -- < think it was one of our friends who borrowed it> Somebody who 'borrows' books and fails to return them? Sounds more like a former friend ...

Sep-21-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie K.: Gotta love a fr game where the LSB is already on the <right> diagonal from the start... ;)> Yeah, it's like waking up in the morning and finding your teeth have brushed themselves. Definitely appeals to my lazy side :-) That "fr" has been used in reference to my games should have been a giveaway. I never play the French :) [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2013.09.21"] [Round "?"] [White "NN"] [Black "Quylthulg"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "2020"] [BlackElo "2129"] [ECO "B00"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. e4 b6 2. d4 Bb7 3. Bd3 Nf6 4. Qe2 e6 5. Nf3 d5 6. e5 Nfd7 7. O-O c5 8. c3 a5 9. Ne1 Ba6 10. f4 g6 11. Nd2 h5 12. Ndf3 Be7 13. Ng5 Bxg5 14. fxg5 Bxd3 15. Nxd3 Nc6 16. Be3 Ne7 17. dxc5 bxc5 18. Bxc5 Nxc5 19. Nxc5 Qc7 20. Qf2 Nf5 21. Rae1 Ke7 22. Nb3 Rhb8 23. Nd4 Qc4 24. Nxf5+ gxf5 25. b3 Qxc3 26. Rc1 Qb4 27. Rc7+ Kf8 28. Rfc1 Kg7 29. h3 h4 30. R1c6 Rb7 31. Qe2 Rxc7 32. Rxc7 Qb6+ 33. Kh1 Qxc7 34. Qh5 Qxe5 35. Qh6+ Kg8 36. g6 Qg7 37. gxf7+ Kxf7 38. Qxh4 Rc8 39. Qf4 Kf6 40. Kh2 e5 41. Qh4+ Qg5 42. Qf2 f4 43. Qb6+ Kf5 44. Qf2 Qg3+ 45. Qxg3 fxg3+ 46. Kxg3 d4 47. Kf3 Rc2 48. g4+ Kg5 49. h4+ Kxh4 50. Ke4 Kxg4 51. Kxe5 d3 52. Kd4 d2 53. Kd3 d1=Q+ 54. Ke4 Re2# {White checkmated} 0-1

Sep-21-13		Domdaniel: <Switch> -- < I never play the French > One of your few blind spots, I suspect. Although anyone who plays Owen's 1...b6 (formerly my #2 defence to 1.e4) is arguably halfway there.

Sep-21-13		Thanh Phan: Interestingly enough we have about half a dozen to a dozen books lent out at any given time, and are probably borrowing that many if not more at the same time from others, a sort of virtual community library, often our books return after a long series of loans with initials on the last page so we know who has read it at least once, lol

Sep-21-13		Domdaniel: <Thanh Phan> I understand. Actually, I've occasionally been guilty of not returning books myself -- including some that <Annie> sent me which met with an unfortunate accident. But I've also been a little irritated when books that I valued suddenly vanished at the hands of visitors. I suppose the secret is to associate with honest people ... which I haven't really succeeded in doing.

Sep-21-13		Thanh Phan: Even if there are more than a few books who are neighbors with the lost-sock dimension by now, there are also enough books that find their way back to the original owners, if in a bit of a weary state, and we feel they have kept enough interest in reading that some losses are almost worth it, I guess we are pretty lucky to have a community that values the return of books and other random items

Sep-21-13		Thanh Phan: Mathematics Links Quantum Encryption and Black Holes http://www.space.com/22879-mathemat... A proposed mathematical proof that outlines the way information behaves in coded messages may have implications for black holes. The proof suggests that the radiation spit out by black holes may retain information on the dark behemoths. The research focuses on encoding communications in quantum mechanical systems. But it also connects to a long-standing question for physicists: What happens to all the stuff that falls into a black hole, and is it possible to retrieve any information about the black hole? A group of researchers from Switzerland and Canada, led by Frédéric Dupuis, showed that it's possible to encode large messages with relatively small quantum encryption keys http://www.livescience.com/18587-ha... , which are keys made up of subatomic particles or photons. But the result implies something else: If someone could pull out information that is encrypted quantum mechanically in a message between two parties, the same feat should work in nature. Coding with particles Quantum encryption relies on the idea that any measurement made on subatomic particles changes the particles' states; quantum mechanics says that these tiny particles are always in a state of uncertainty, until a measurement pushes the particle into one state or another. The upshot is that subatomic particles can be used as a "foolproof" key that allows only the intended party to decode an encoded message. If anyone tries to decipher the key — by eavesdropping on the message, for instance — the two parties involved would know about it, and could change keys. That's because any attempt to measure the key would change the information in it

Sep-21-13		Annie K.: Hi, <AI>! :) <Switch> Very cute <not a French> game. ;D <Dom> heh, <Switch> knows my "opinion" on the French, which is why he often takes care to introduce games which, oddly, strongly resemble French games a couple of moves in, as <not a French>. <Thanh> hmm... 'Coding with Particles', sounds like a somewhat more wholesome activity than 'Partying with Codiciles'. Thanks ;)

Sep-21-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: Yet another game showing bishops of opposite colors don't always draw :) [Event "rated wild/fr match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2013.09.21"] [Round "?"] [White "NN"] [Black "Quylthulg"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "2004"] [BlackElo "2270"] [TimeControl "240"] [Variant "wild/fr"] [SetUp "1"] [FEN "rbnkbrnq/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RBNKBRNQ w KQkq - 0 1"] 1. f4 c6 2. e3 d5 3. Nf3 Nd6 4. d3 Bc7 5. Nb3 b6 6. a4 a5 7. Bc3 Bd7 8. Ne5 Nf6 9. Nd4 c5 10. Ndc6+ Bxc6 11. Nxc6+ Kd7 12. Ne5+ Kc8 13. g3 e6 14. Ba2 h5 15. Be1 Ng4 16. Nxg4 hxg4 17. c4 Qh7 18. O-O-O Qf5 19. cxd5 exd5 20. Qxd5 Qxd5 21. Bxd5 Ra7 22. Bc3 Nf5 23. Rfe1 Kd7 24. e4 Nd4 25. Bxd4 cxd4 26. Kd2 Bd6 27. Ke2 Bb4 28. Rh1 Rc7 29. Rc1 Rxc1 30. Rxc1 Rh8 31. Rh1 f6 32. Kf1 Rc8 33. Bc4 Kd6 34. Kg2 b5 35. axb5 a4 36. Ra1 Ra8 37. h3 gxh3+ 38. Kxh3 a3 39. bxa3 Rxa3 40. Rxa3 Bxa3 41. Kg4 Bc1 42. Kf5 Ke7 43. Kg6 Kf8 44. b6 Ba3 45. e5 fxe5 46. fxe5 Bc5 47. b7 Ba7 48. Kf5 Ke7 49. Ke4 Kd7 50. Kd5 g5 51. e6+ Ke7 52. Kc6 Bb8 53. Bd5 Bxg3 54. Kb6 Bb8 55. Kc5 Ba7+ 56. Kc6 Bb8 57. Be4 Kxe6 58. Bd5+ Ke5 59. Bh1 Ke6 60. Kc5 Ba7+ 61. Kc6 Bb8 62. Kc5 Ke5 63. Kc6 Kf4 64. Kd5 Ke3 65. Kc4 g4 66. Bg2 g3 67. Bh1 Ba7 68. Kd5 Kf2 69. Kc6 g2 70. Bxg2 Kxg2 71. Kc7 Kf3 72. b8=Q Bxb8+ 73. Kxb8 Ke3 74. Kc7 Kxd3 75. Kc6 Kc3 76. Kd5 d3 77. Ke4 d2 78. Ke3 d1=Q {White resigns} 0-1

Sep-22-13		Thanh Phan: Have found the book I was thinking about earlier, called Archer's Goon by Diana Wynne Jones http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archer... Fairly interesting, forced to write 2,000 words of nonsense quarterly, they soon are visited and begin a journey to find who actually are to receive the words, the venture 400 years into the past, amongst other places, worth a read I think

Sep-22-13		Abdel Irada: Hello, <Annie>. As long as I'm here, I suppose I may as well get around to greeting my hostess ... er, sooner or later. :-D [sheepish] ∞

Sep-22-13		Domdaniel: <Thanh Phan> Archer's Goon sounds like a truly original story. Such originality is rare, in my opinion.

Sep-22-13		Annie K.: Yeah, quite a cute synopsis. :) <AI> heh, no hurry of course! ;) <Switch> nice job - um, what kind of time control is <that>?! ;s

Sep-22-13		Domdaniel: <A> "Partying with codicils" ... ouch. If a known verbal pervert - like T.Pynchon or, well, me - came up with that one, no-one would be surprised. But a nice young lady like you? Despite your eccentric Sensa Yuma, it's too much. (I'm just jealous ... great punnery ...)

Sep-22-13		Annie K.: <G> ...and don't miss the detail of using '<whole>some' in contrast with 'particles' too. OK, carry on being jealous. ;)

Sep-23-13		Thanh Phan: Some interesting games ^.^ possibly they are one move for each moon-phase ~ game of the decade version, a move each night ~ game of the year type, or one of the great mice races, moves per minute?

Sep-24-13		Domdaniel: <Annie> A line I like from a book you've read, Harry Harrison's 'Stainless Steel Rat': "It could only have been conceived by a mind as brilliantly crooked as my own. I chewed my lip with jealousy."

Sep-24-13		Thanh Phan: The Stainless Steel Rat series makes for a good read, And our news just shown how much Natural Foods can weigh before it's cut into freezer storage size, Barrow: Bowhead Whale Pushes Front Loader to the Limit http://www.ktuu.com/news/barrow-bow...

Sep-24-13		Domdaniel: <Thanh Phan> I used to know Harry Harrison -- I visited his home many years ago, when he lived in Dublin. I think I still have a signed copy somewhere of 'Great Balls of Fire', his book about sex and science fiction. Despite this, I only got around to the Stainless Steel Rat series recently. They're quite good -- although the vision of a pan-galactic 1950s America can be disconcerting.

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