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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-26-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: Anger and <knowledge> go together much more often. Ignorance can be bliss... indeed, that was the case with Charlie. I'm not convinced by the Charlie/AJ analogy. Charlie was mocked but not disliked, wasn't a narcissist, wasn't a liar, didn't attack people first and wasn't a religious extremist whose younger brother bombed an abortion clinic on Christmas as a "birthday gift for Jesus" - all of which goes a long way to explain <why> he wasn't disliked. I see no reason why AJ shouldn't be fully accountable for his actions, or why it should matter if he weren't; if someone built a huge robot with motion sensors and a giant axe to swing at anybody approaching and put it in the middle of the city square, I would not feel compelled to tolerate it just because it didn't know any better.

Oct-26-13		Domdaniel: <Annie> That is entirely persuasive. I think I'm convinced. I can't even remember what my argument was. TV must have rotted my brain already, after just an hour or two this year...

Oct-26-13		Domdaniel: <Switch> AJ's brother bombed an abortion clinic? And no doubt the life (sic!) master supported him? Ouch. I hadn't heard that one...

Oct-26-13		Annie K.: <Switch> Charlie wasn't disliked because he wasn't intelligent enough to understand that people were making him the butt of their jokes all his life, and therefore was not angry at them. This changed as soon as he gained that much understanding. If he had had that extra small measure of comprehension, which AJ has, all along, he would have been very much the same too. The issues of narcissism and self-comforting fantasy stories - not at all the same as being a liar - I have addressed a few months ago, at Karpova chessforum. Also relevant reading material, thanks for reminding me to append the reference. :) <if someone built a huge robot> Well, maybe the crucial differences are that 1. AJ doesn't actually hurt anybody, and 2. he is not a robot? Although his adult personality is very much the creation of his tormentors, he is still a human being.

Oct-26-13		Jim Bartle: It´s not a person´s fault if a relative commits a crime, assuming he didn`t help or support the criminal.

Oct-26-13		dakgootje: <Important reading material: http://dorinta19.bizland.ro/FLOWERS... - 'Flowers for Algernon' by Daniel Keyes, the short story version, no need to overcomplicate things with the novel version in this case.> If it's the short story-version, why does it have so many words? I haven't read texts longer than 140 characters for months. Years even. Anything longer and my brain just shuts down all mental faculties - except for the occasional "hmmm very interesting" when others are around.

Oct-26-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> I don't think AJ really believes in, for instance, having actually played the fake combination from A J Goldsby. He just made it up to impress people. <Jim Bartle: It´s not a person´s fault if a relative commits a crime, assuming he didn`t help or support the criminal.> Completely true. The point is rather that AJ grew up in a family with much the same views and same hatred, not a mocking one where he felt out of place.

Oct-26-13		Annie K.: <Switch> I do think AJ makes all his fantasies up for himself first, and actually comes to believe them before publishing them. It's not unusual for sensitive children to make up little stories to comfort themselves, and this is basically the same situation. The worst mocking AJ grew up with, was not for his views, and was not by his family. That particular issue is endemic in his habitat, and it's not hard to see how one so desperately longing to "belong" to a group, any group, would fall in with them. He is actually more excusable than most in that regard. I am not going to assume that he had anything to do with his brother's actions, either.

Oct-26-13		Domdaniel: <Switch> Yes. And he has never seemingly been able to challenge this disturbed familial perspective. Rather, he revels in it. <Annie> Your post chez Karpova about AJ's narcissistic personality disorder is certainly convincing. As I recall, somebody once made a similar point about Fischer -- to the effect that he was incapable of lying, because he genuinely believed in the things he said. I was, however, intrigued to see Karpova respond as follows: <Narcissistic Personality Disorder was my thought also. That's one of the reasons why I don't see the sense in following around and attacking him>. One wonders just why the latest spate of 'following around and attacking' took place?

Oct-26-13		Annie K.: <One wonders just why the latest spate of 'following around and attacking' took place?> It's difficult for people to actually understand AJ's problems - process on a gut level, imagine themselves in his place, etc.... and even when they do, or almost do, they tend to forget when he irritates them. Let's try a little harder to remember, eh? BTW - <Jim>, <VBD>, <Thanh> - thanks. :) & <dakkie>... behave, or I'll threaten you with the novel version, see if I don't. ;p

Oct-26-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie K.: The worst mocking AJ grew up with, was not for his views, and was not by his family. That particular issue is endemic in his habitat> True. But I doubt it had anything to do with his being stupid, either - his having difficulties to relate to people, perhaps, but in that case his having difficulties to relate to people clearly wasn't <caused> by being bullied. In any case, what he is today is more relevant than how he became so.

Oct-26-13		Annie K.: <Switch> Huh? Who said it was, and what point does that make? I think you need a little more processing time, for once. ;)

Oct-26-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> What I need is sleep :) Who said AJ was a target because he's stupid? Nobody, perhaps, but... <Annie K.: Now, although AJ may be no better off than Charlie in the emotional/social comprehension department, he is indeed considerably better off mentally - not so much better off that he doesn't get much the same treatment, sadly> ...does rather give the impression you think AJ is a target for similar reasons to Charlie. Regardless of whether you had stupidity or something different in your mind, I'm not convinced that is or ever was the case. Furthermore, you seem to feel being a target (for whatever reason) is responsible for AJ becoming so full of hatred; it can't have helped, but you yourself said his views are endemic down there, and they result from hatred and fuel more of it. In other words, hatred is equally endemic, and AJ would likely be full of it anyhow - he does have his own unique features, of course, but today they are the <cause> and not the effect of being a target. I'm not sure the opposite was ever true. Like I said, though, I don't feel it matters much.

Oct-26-13		Annie K.: <Switch> Good night! :)

Oct-26-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> Thanks, and the same to you :)

Oct-27-13		Karpova: Domdaniel: <I was, however, intrigued to see Karpova respond as follows: <Narcissistic Personality Disorder was my thought also. That's one of the reasons why I don't see the sense in following around and attacking him>. One wonders just why the latest spate of 'following around and attacking' took place?> Correct me if I'm wrong but this could be construed as if I was <following around and attacking him>. I would be thankful if you could clarify this point. And if it was intended, to provide evidence for it.

Oct-27-13		Domdaniel: <Karpova> Following around? No, I have no reason to think you pursued AJ in this manner. But 'attacking'? You cited a long list of his past misdemeanours. You called for sanctions. An attack, no?

Oct-27-13		Domdaniel: <Annie> -- "If I am not at home, you can find me at ..." Oops, sorry, I hadn't noticed that you'd moved in. I'll try to be more observant in future ... ;)

Oct-27-13		Karpova: <Domdaniel: But 'attacking'? You cited a long list of his past misdemeanours. You called for sanctions. An attack, no?> I did not insult him. He said all the things I quoted (and these were not just past misdemeanours). What is worse - the things he said or me pointing them out? I did not call for sanctions. You are misinformed. I'm not even of the opinion that he should get a ban. If there is a way not involving sanctions, I would be the least person to object to it. If you have further questions, I would suggest to transfer the discussion to my forum. So that I don't need to intrude into <Annie K.>'s forum any longer. Sorry for that <Annie K.>!

Oct-27-13		Domdaniel: <Karpova> This seems to be a semantic issue. I didn't say that you 'insulted' him -- my point was that listing his past misdemeanours constituted an attack. Whether it was justified or not is beside the point: it was still an attack. And 'sanctions', to my way of thinking, means any kind of punitive action. So "a way not involving sanctions" would be a way in which AJ is not put on the spot for his crimes. Which is what some people seem to be complaining about.

Oct-27-13		Annie K.: <Karpova> not a problem. But if you'll listen to a little well-meant advice... dwelling on wrongs, injustices, resentments, etc., has never made anybody a pleasant person. And bonding with others over these things is not really healthy for either side, either. Try to focus on the positive aspects of this site, and the many positive things you share with other site members here. I'm sure you will enjoy yourself more if you do. :)

Oct-28-13		kardopov: You're welcome ms. Annie.

Oct-28-13		visayanbraindoctor: News from Biology: Spectacular New Species Found in "Lost World" http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...

Oct-28-13		Alien Math: Various comments of German compare to English creating, meaning, use of words http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5Qs... Has CC button if accent appear to confuse, commentary notes from a YouTube gamer.

Oct-29-13		Alien Math: sorry

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