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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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Oct-10-13		Abdel Irada: Thanks to <visayanbraindoctor>, every visit to the <Annie K.> forum is as good as a series of science lectures. Perhaps <Annie> should consider finding a way to charge for access and then split the proceeds. ;-) ∞

Oct-11-13		Alien Math: <Abdel Irada> Her finds the Pandemic 2 also of interest, welcomes the ideas to help keep kids interested, <Annie K.: <dakkie> that's nothing. In my day we had to make the cogwheels ourselves with nothing more than iron ore and stones to work with, and then we had to run with them into a thunderstorm and chase lightning bolts... and it was always uphill both ways!> Chasing lightning bolts! wonder if better then dragging cat across rug while hold glass jar?

Oct-11-13		Alien Math: Claw mark suggested for this forum :x One from game War Thunder might appear to read such, they seem really neat, wait gathers time

Oct-11-13		Domdaniel: <(birds are now regarded as dinosaurs> Innaresting ... I imagine a flock of brontosauri swooping overhead, while stegosaurs perch on the branches of a nearby fern. And listen to the sweet song of Tyrannosaurus Rex ... Did dinosaurs sing to one another? Did diningales sing on the future site of Berkeley Square? Bird, as Keats said about 1.f4, thou never were... Birds may very well be descended from dinosaurs, no disputing that anymore. But to equate the two is like saying that people are amphibians. Or that chess grandmasters are algae.

Oct-11-13		Annie K.: Heh. Perhaps 'closest surviving (as in, least changed) relatives'. So that in case dinosaurs go extinct, you'd have to notify a bird, it being the "next of kin". Oh wait... :p

Oct-12-13		OhioChessFan: <Batman: Birds may very well be descended from dinosaurs, no disputing that anymore.> ________ may very well be __________, no disputing that any more. Well, yeah. As for the specific claim, if the evidence were as plentiful as the speculations, I'd agree with you.

Oct-12-13		Annie K.: <Ohio> Hi. Not in my forum, plz.

Oct-12-13		OhioChessFan: I am really okay with that, no problem, but when I challenge your claims, by name, in my forum, don't respond there.

Oct-12-13		Domdaniel: "Why so many of us a million years ago purposely knocked out major chunks of our brains with alcohol from time to time remains an interesting mystery. It may be that we were trying to give evolution a shove in the right direction - in the direction of smaller brains." - Kurt Vonnegut, Galapagos

Oct-12-13		Annie K.: Well, Neanderthals did have larger brains than we do... but somehow the alcohol route doesn't seem like such a great idea to me. ;s

Oct-13-13		Domdaniel: <A> Kurt was being ironic, I suspect ... very heavy-handed irony. In 'Galapagos', supposedly narrated a million years in the future, when the successors of humanity have small brains, flippers, and spend their time catching fish to eat, the narrator frequently bemoans the grotesquely useless big brains that people used to have. As for alcohol, it has only a passing role in the novel. Though I am bemused by the way that many chess-playing persons regularly react with shock and horror to the mere idea of alcohol and other drugs ... as though those finely-tuned big brains were a vitally important attribute, and anything that damaged them, or caused even a momentary wobble, was a catastrophe. Uh, where did my brain go? ;/

Oct-13-13		Annie K.: Heh. And you may count me firmly in that camp! :p Although 'catastrophe' may be slightly overstated; but as was said, a mind is a terrible thing to waste? Particularly just before Klu Hunt time. ;) Regards, The cat who stole the apostrophes

Oct-13-13		Domdaniel: Wasn't that Dan Quayle? How would he know about minds? Still, I guess it's better for you young folk (you epigamic ephebes) to worry about wasting your minds, rather than fretting about minding your waists ...

Oct-13-13		Annie K.: Well, hopefully somebody else said it first. When did a politician ever actually invent anything? Heh, nice try, but I'm a long way from being an "ephebe" (nevermind the minor discrepancy)... though ackshly I have, lately, decided to "mind my waist", and thereafter returned almost to the general shape I last held about 20 years ago. Which was pretty good, btw. :p On the other hand, I don't rilly worry about wasting my mind, because I'm sure I lost it ages ago. :D

Oct-13-13		Domdaniel: Nah, you didn't. Maybe you, ah, mislaid it, or something. I'm sure it'll turn up sooner or later ... ;)

Oct-13-13		Annie K.: Oh, thank you, that is so comforting! :D

Oct-13-13		Abdel Irada: As best I can recall, the phrase "A mind is a terrible thing to waste" originated with the United Negro College Fund in the 1970s. Quayle's version was "It's a terrible waste to lose one's mind ... or not to have a mind." To which the only response I could find was, "Well, if anyone should know, it's probably the man who 'didn't live in this century.'" ∞

Oct-13-13		Domdaniel: <A> -- < Oh, thank you, that is so comforting> That's what I'm here for ...

Oct-13-13		OhioChessFan: Well, after much thought, I realize I didn't need to jump on you with both feet and I apologize for that.

Oct-13-13		Domdaniel: Much thought is always a good thing. Except, possibly, in emergencies ...

Oct-13-13		dakgootje: Reminds me of my favorite Latin proverbial sentence: 'Festina lente'. Meaning 'make haste slowly'. Which is nice. However for additional effect, for Dutch speakers 'festina' is a well-known brand of popsicles and 'lente' means springtime :)

Oct-13-13		Abdel Irada: <Domdaniel: Much thought is always a good thing. Except, possibly, in emergencies ...> Since the United States has been in a continuous state of emergency since 1979, that exception may explain much. ∞

Oct-13-13		Domdaniel: <Abdel Irada> In Ireland, the conflict that most other people called World War 2 was known as 'the emergency'. Which may also explain much.

Oct-13-13		Annie K.: Heh - very amusing emergency discussion! <Ohio> OK, I figured you were having a bad day. ;) <AI> thanks for that phrase history, makes sense. :)

Oct-13-13		Abdel Irada: <OhioChessFan: Well, after much thought, I realize I didn't need to jump on you with both feet and I apologize for that.> In future, one foot will suffice. ;-) ∞

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