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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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Nov-05-13		visayanbraindoctor: <Annie K.> The story hits right on the mark regarding something that most people do not realize is a common occurrence in hospitals. It's the phenomenon of terminally ill patients kept alive by dint of enormous expenditure of effort, resources, money. The intelligent dinosaurs in the story would just euthanize them all I guess. To think like a dinosaur may have its attractions for some regarding terminally ill patients that are suffering intolerable pain, or comatose. In practice, what usually happens to my terminally ill comatose patients from impoverished families is that the relatives simply refuse a ventilator, ambubagging, or stop procuring all medications. Since you are not actively injecting a drug that will kill the patient, it's not regarded as homicide or murder. Yet to be honest, the effect is the same as if the relatives euthanized their patient, whose life is cut short when it could have been prolonged.

Nov-07-13		Domdaniel: <VBD> -- <ambubagging> ...?? Is that one of those medical euphemisms?

Nov-07-13		visayanbraindoctor: <Domdaniel: <VBD> -- <ambubagging> ...?? Is that one of those medical euphemisms?> The proper name for it is Bag valve mask. http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambu-...

Nov-07-13		Annie K.: <Dom> as a euphemism, that sounds like something rather difficult to do even in good health... ;s <VBD> thanks. :) The point the story was actually intended to underline, I believe, is the non-identity of, and discontinuity between, original and teleported "clone", a detail glossed over by much of the genre using the teleportation theme. It's quite startling as such. But yes, you are also right about the point where people become "things", often through no fault of their own. Though I'd say a person who gets drunk, and then gets on a motorcycle, is considerably less innocent than Kamala, but also many other terminally ill people in real life... It's a tough subject. Last I heard of it, there was a push for legalizing euthanasia somewhere in North Europe, but I don't know how that went down.

Nov-08-13		visayanbraindoctor: You are right, that the main theme is <the non-identity of, and discontinuity between, original and teleported "clone", a detail glossed over by much of the genre using the teleportation theme. It's quite startling as such.> There is a secondary theme, the ethics of euthanasia. The protagonist performs a kind of murder on the 'redundants', but first he has to think like his practically minded and detached dinosaur masters. These intelligent 'migrating' (through teleportation) Dinos would even kill themselves without a qualm upon learning that their copies have been reproduced in their destination place. Humanity must learn this attitude if they are to be trusted with teleportation technology. Most sci-fi works avoid this issue of intentionally killing the original in order to avoid duplicates by assuming that the process of teleportation automatically destroys the original while simultaneously recreating an exact copy on the receiving end.

Nov-08-13		visayanbraindoctor: There even seems to be a third theme. The executioner talking with the condemned, its true nature hidden in a veil of well intentioned friendliness. Michael the executioner and original Kamala the condemned (by her choice) know full well that in the end, Michael will kill Kamala. The story does not reveal this until the cruel twist at the end, giving the first impression that Michael is a friendly tourist guide to Kamala. The twist is that he executes her at the end. I am curious if real executioners do make friends with their victims. Michael as an executioner seems to have failed in emotionally detaching himself from his victim, and as a result suffered from agonizing psychic trauma. Is this a potential problem for professional executioners, assassins, or even soldiers in war zones? It's probably not unusual among soldiers who are actually close enough to see the people they kill dying in front of their eyes. If a soldier knew and was friendly with his victim, it could be worse for him psychologically. I can deduce that from thereon, Michael never tried to befriend another migrator that he was slated to execute.

Nov-08-13		visayanbraindoctor: Fourth theme is facing death. Kamala was not too bothered when she made the decision to migrate; it seemed abstract and far-off. When the psychological setting changed, alone in the dark claustrophobic marble 'tomb', imminent death ready to take her, Kamala could not think like a dinosaur. She began rejecting her situation, hallucinating, panicking, almost becoming insane with terror. She had the same reaction when she realized that Michael was about to murder her anyway in the airlock. Definitely not a good day to die for poor Kamala. In contrast, her old neighbor probably faced death with more equanimity, having lured the young Kamala to keep her company during her dying days.

Nov-08-13		Domdaniel: Hmm. Personally, I don't have a problem with the notion of legalizing euthanasia (or related issues, such as assisted suicide). Obviously, one needs some legal protection against abuse of the process, and any kind of pseudo-murder where loopholes are exploited to get rid of people. But as long as the person about to die actually wants to die, there shouldn't be a problem -- it's on a par with 'normal' suicide, which has been decriminalized in many jurisdictions in recent years. The opposing idea -- that life is in some sense sacred, or that one's life is the property of a deity rather than oneself -- is no longer tenable. Or, if tenable, should not be enshrined in legal systems. Holland, Switzerland, and, um, Oregon seem to be moving in the right direction.

Nov-11-13		visayanbraindoctor: <Annie K.: So sorry to hear what's happening in your part of the world... :( Take care.> Thank you.

Nov-13-13		MarkFinan: Annie. Just one question. Is Robed.Bishop a man or a woman, do you know? ✌

Nov-13-13		Domdaniel: <Mark> -- < Is Robed.Bishop a man or a woman, do you know? > Yes, probably. ;)

Nov-13-13		MarkFinan: So he's definitely a boy or a girl? I thought he/she may be a hermo! Hermaphrodite I mean 😉

Nov-13-13		Annie K.: <Dom> Aha, must have been Holland I've heard about, thanks. <VBD> Sorry for apparent absence, I'm around but I'll catch up with this conversation later - I've been getting up "early" (by my standards) to follow the WCC games, so I'm just too tired to post much by evening. What passes for normal communications will resume after the championship is over. :) <Mark> The one with the fleas? No idea. ;)

Nov-13-13		MarkFinan: < <Mark> The one with the fleas? No idea. ;)> Lol. Well apparently I need your approval Annie, so is it okay for me to tell the hermaphrodite I really really don't like heshe? 😉 I joke I joke. But you are the only person here I'm kinda scared of lol. ^true though ✌✌

Nov-13-13		Annie K.: <Mark> Heh. I think he/she may have figured that out by now, anyway! Besides, you really should have better things to do with your time. :)

Nov-13-13		dakgootje: <Annie K<Dot> Aha, must have been Holland I've heard about, thanks.> You've heard of us? I can't help but admire your geographical knowledge madam! :)

Nov-13-13		MarkFinan: Annie. I have to be honest with you. I've never backed down from a physical alteration in my life. So with the nutterweb being invented n all that, it brings out people who like to portray that kind of image because in real life they've more than likely been pushed around and have been too afraid to stand up and be counted.... until the nutterweb! So now, from behind the safety of a computer screen they say things they'd never dare say to anyone in the real world. Step forward.... well you know. I honestly have tried every other option than conflict this time(trust me Annie, I don't lie) so when those people carry on and on, what can I do? Thats rhetorical. I know what I can do. ✌

Nov-13-13		Annie K.: <dakkie> I think I heard Holland has 3 dimensions, counting time... ;) <Mark> well, I'm not telling you what to do. :) But what you can do, and what you actually should do, don't have to be the same thing. There's no end to the direction where one goes about reacting to everything anybody says - not a good one, anyway - and there's really not much point to it either. Nor need - don't worry, you're not the only one who knows their site history around here! ;)

Nov-14-13		Check It Out: Hi, <Annie K.>, I'm slinking in to your place to say sorry again for raising a stir over your <dot>. I hope the issue goes away as quickly as it came. Yours truly, Check It Out

Nov-14-13		dakgootje: <<dakkie> I think I heard Holland has 3 dimensions, counting time...> Did you know that the Dutch are so tall that, if everyone else lies down, they can overlook the whole country? In previous ages that was central to quick comminucation. One'd have to know whethere the message's recipient was, and then tap the closest person on the shoulder. They'd then notify the next person before lying down. This continues [through the whole country if necessary] until the recipient is reached, after which both can converse via gestures. This is also the reason why the Dutch are wellknown for allowing certain laidback hobbies.

Nov-14-13		Alien Math: Sorry was from request to disassociate contact of forums, bà người offer suggestion for refrain from conflict pages, appear our stress gathers few reasons for confrontation.

Nov-14-13		MarkFinan: Hi Annie. Well I had a think about your last post here to me, and I think you're right. I do have better things to do than get into silly arguments with people who may be seen by others as being a little bit slow. Maybe in January when I start work again I won't visit here as much, and I know from experience that when you don't visit here that often you start to look back on these silly arguments and cringe a little bit. I'm only 38, and I didn't think I'd take a big interest in chess again until I was of retirement age, but I got the bug and I honestly think it's kept me out of trouble these past 4 or 5 years (there is one thing, but I don't think if I was a billionaire I'd have let it slip! Nothing "dishonest", more like a crime of passion, and I can't help the way I am. I do have a temper! 😡) because even though it's been around 10 yr drug and "illegal activity" free, it only takes one night out in the pub,as opposed to a night in playing chess, to wind up in trouble round my way. When I left this time last year for 6 months, I really needed it. Not because of anything here, just personal reasons really. I have a date with destiny on the 21st of this month, providing that goes okay and I'm back at work after Xmas I will take a little time out. End of confessions 😉

Nov-15-13		Annie K.: <dakkie> that's very sensible, I thoroughly approve of course. =) <Alien Math> aha, but no need to stay away. It's just that there's no need to feel that you must take a stance on everything, either, which is usually the cause of feelings of 'stress'. CG is a big, and mostly decent, community - there are always many other people who can and will do their part if you don't... and in fact it's best to allow this variety: the same people always getting involved in every argument, just build themselves a reputation as trouble seekers, both with the administration and the membership. <CIO> eh? You're talking ancient history here. ;p Anyway, drop by any time. :) <Mark> take care and good luck!

Nov-16-13		jessicafischerqueen: <Annie> QUESTION: Do you think <Magyar Carlsen> will become the greatest Hungarian chessmaster in history?

Nov-16-13		Annie K.: <Jess> Well, disregarding some minor details, yes, definitely! BTW, well played at the live game page. ;)

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