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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-17-13		visayanbraindoctor: <Annie K.: Great news for your friend's family, at least. Thanks for keeping up these fascinating accounts!> Thanks. BTW, I have learned there's a movie based on Ender's Game coming soon. I will be sure to watch it.

Nov-20-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: Suffice it to say neither side played accurately... :) [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2013.11.20"] [Round "?"] [White "Quylthulg"] [Black "NN"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2068"] [BlackElo "1891"] [ECO "A01"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. b3 Nf6 2. Bb2 c5 3. e3 e6 4. Nf3 Qc7 5. c4 Nc6 6. Nc3 a6 7. Be2 h5 8. d4 cxd4 9. exd4 b6 10. d5 Ne5 11. O-O Nfg4 12. g3 Bc5 13. Ne4 Nxf3+ 14. Bxf3 f5 15. d6 Qb8 16. Nxc5 bxc5 17. Bxa8 Qxa8 18. Bxg7 Rh7 19. Bc3 h4 20. f3 Ne3 21. Qd2 Nxf1 22. Qg5 Rf7 23. Rxf1 hxg3 24. hxg3 Qc6 25. Be5 Bb7 26. Rf2 {Black forfeits by disconnection} 1-0

Nov-21-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: Another fun miniature :) [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2013.11.21"] [Round "?"] [White "Quylthulg"] [Black "NN"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2069"] [BlackElo "1993"] [ECO "A01"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. b3 b6 2. Bb2 Bb7 3. e3 d5 4. Nf3 c5 5. Bb5+ Nd7 6. O-O a6 7. Be2 Qc7 8. c4 Ngf6 9. Nc3 e6 10. cxd5 exd5 11. d4 c4 12. bxc4 dxc4 13. e4 Nxe4 14. Nxe4 Bxe4 15. Re1 Be7 16. Bxc4 Nf8 17. Bxf7+ {Black resigns} 1-0

Nov-22-13		Annie K.: <VBD> In the SF genre, the books are usually incomparably better than the movies, IME. Fix your email plz! ;) <Switch> just home from playing 2 OTB games today - some weird time control, 50 10 - not as bad as classical, anyhoo. ;s Results were a draw against an 1868 and a win against a 1520. I'll catch up with your game this weekend. :)

Nov-23-13		visayanbraindoctor: <Annie K.> Fixed! <In the SF genre, the books are usually incomparably better than the movies> That's right. I have watched a movie version of the Earthsea series. My opinion is that they should not have made a movie at all. All the poignancy of the novels are completely missing. I nearly fell asleep watching the movie adaptation of Dune. But who knows maybe the Ender's movie might just approximate the novel. I admit I am curious.

Nov-23-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie K.: <Switch> just home from playing 2 OTB games today - some weird time control, 50 10 - not as bad as classical, anyhoo. ;s Results were a draw against an 1868 and a win against a 1520.> Game scores?

Nov-23-13		dakgootje: She scored a draw and a win. :)

Nov-23-13		Annie K.: <VBD> great! :) Yeah, the problem with SF movies is that the visual media, by necessity and definition, lack the ability to convey most of the content that makes the SF genre interesting to its aficionados: the scientific premises making up the basis of non-Terran scenarios, and the psychological insights into the reactions of humans and aliens to these environments. Movies/TV are good for depicting action and emotion; the are next to useless in conveying thought and detailed explanation. :\ I suppose Ender's Game does have plenty of action, and offers some great visual-depiction opportunities - a talented director could make a stunning viewpoint-shift scene out of 'The enemy's gate is Down', for one thing, but much of the non-action component of the book will still most likely be lost. Oh well. Heh, thx, <dakkie>! :) <Switch> well, if those games were anywhere near worth posting, I would post them even if nobody indicated the slightest bit of interest... ;)

Nov-23-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> Come on, they can't have been worse than this... [Event "rated lightning match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2013.11.23"] [Round "?"] [White "NN"] [Black "Quylthulg"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "2171"] [BlackElo "2098"] [ECO "B01"] [TimeControl "60"] 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. d4 c6 5. dxc6 Nxc6 6. Nf3 Nxd4 7. Be3 Nxf3+ 8. Qxf3 Nf6 9. Rd1 Qa5 10. Bb5+ Bd7 11. Bxd7+ Nxd7 12. Rxd7 Bxc3+ 13. bxc3 Kxd7 14. Qxb7+ Ke6 15. Qc6+ Kf5 16. g4+ Kxg4 17. Qe4+ Kh5 18. Qf3+ Kh4 19. Rg1 Qxc3+ 20. Kf1 Qc4+ 21. Kg2 Qg4+ 22. Qxg4+ Kxg4 23. f3+ Kf5 24. Rd1 Rad8 25. Rc1 Rc8 26. Kg3 Rhd8 27. Bf2 Rd2 28. h4 Rcxc2 29. Rxc2 Rxc2 30. Bxa7 Rxa2 31. Bc5 Ra5 32. Bxe7 Ra4 33. Bf8 f6 34. Bg7 h5 35. Bh8 g5 36. Bg7 gxh4+ 37. Kf2 h3 38. Bf8 h2 39. Kg3 Ra2 40. Bb4 h1=Q 41. f4 Qg2+ 42. Kh4 Qg4# {White checkmated} 0-1

Nov-23-13		Annie K.: <Switch> I just played through your games, fun as usual! :) Heh, ok, I'll post the win, but you've been warned that it's a waste of time. ;s The ending also has the excuse of being (mis)played in extreme time trouble by my opponent - I still had about 20 minutes left... 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d3 O-O 6. Bb3 d6 7. Nbd2 Bg4 8. Nf1 Nh5 9. h3 Be6 10. Bc2 Nf4 11. Bxf4 exf4 12. d4 Bb6 13. d5 Bxd5 14. Qxd5 Qf6 15. N1h2 Qg6 16. Qg5 Ne5 17. Qxg6 Nxg6 18. Nd4 c5 19. Nf5 Bc7 20. O-O-O Rad8 21. h4 b5 22. h5 Ne5 23. Ne7+ Kh8 24. Nd5 Bb8 25. Nxf4 a5 26. Nf3 Nc4 27. Bd3 d5 28. Nxd5 Nd6 29. e5 c4 30. Bc2 Nb7 31. Nb6 Bc7 32. Nd7 Rfe8 33. Be4 Re7 34. Bc6 a4 35. Bxb5 Ra8 36. Bxc4 Na5 37. Bb5 Nb7 38. Rd5 Nd8 39. Nd4 Ne6 40. g3 Rd8 41. f4 Nf8 42. Rc5 Rdxd7 43. Bxd7 Rxd7 44. Nb5 Bb6 45. Rc8 Kg8 46. Nd6 h6 47. Rh4 Bd8 48. Rg4 Kh7 49. Nf5 Ne6 50. Nd6 f6 51. Rg6 Nf8 52. Rg4 fxe5 53. fxe5 Bg5+ 54. Kc2 Ne6 55. Rxa4 Be7 56. Raa8 Nf8 57. Nf5 Bd8 58. Rxd8 Rxd8 59. Rxd8 1-0

Nov-23-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: Looks like a decent game actually. By one player, at any rate :)

Nov-23-13		Annie K.: <Switch> thanks. :) Well, Fritz had some scathing comments on it. ;s My OTB playing style, at least against lower rated opponents, still tends to be much more conservative - read 'overly cautious', and that's being polite :p - than my "reckless, yet fun" online blitz play. I could do with some melding of the two...

Nov-24-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie K.: My OTB playing style, at least against lower rated opponents, still tends to be much more conservative - read 'overly cautious', and that's being polite :p - than my "reckless, yet fun" online blitz play. I could do with some melding of the two...> Like keeping the fun while cutting the recklessness :)

Nov-25-13		hms123: <Annie> That was a very nice game, Fritz notwithstanding. There were some funny things with Stockfish's evals. For example, 51...Nf8 got evaluated as 0.00 but after it was played the eval jumped back up to +10. It happened again later as well. I don't know if Fritz gave the same sort of evals, but if so, I wouldn't pay a lot of attention.

Nov-25-13		Annie K.: <Switch> sounds good, in principle... ;) <hms> thanks. I got the same thing - I think those savage Injuns are smelling a possible (semi-)forced repetition somewhere in there... but the missed opportunity for advantageous simplification with 49.Nxf7 is the most annoying one. Plus, I have to concur with Fritz that the whole Rh4 idea was inferior to simply consolidating via Rd1. It may look cute, but the Rook was pretty much trapped in that cramped bubble after Bd8; 49...g6, for example, looks really bad. I was just lucky my opponent obligingly decided to throw the trap doors wide open with the pawn exchange on e5. :s

Nov-27-13		visayanbraindoctor: Animal rights activists might find this film excerpt interesting (and amusing). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeM1... It's in Ilonggo Visayan/ Hiligaynon, one of the non-Tagalog languages of the Philippines, but if one turns on the captions, there is an English translation. Although presented in a funny sort of scene, if we all had this child's attitude, humanity probably would have no trouble in implementing animal conservation endeavors.

Nov-28-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: Why people no longer leave their queensides undeveloped :) [Event "rated lightning match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2013.11.28"] [Round "?"] [White "NN"] [Black "Quylthulg"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "2026"] [BlackElo "2106"] [ECO "A02"] [TimeControl "60"] 1. f4 e5 2. Nf3 e4 3. Nd4 c5 4. Nb3 d5 5. e3 Nc6 6. Bb5 Qh4+ 7. g3 Qh3 8. Qe2 Bg4 9. Qf1 Qh5 10. Be2 Nf6 11. h3 Bxe2 12. Qxe2 Qg6 13. g4 h5 14. g5 Nd7 15. h4 Bd6 16. Nc3 d4 17. exd4 O-O 18. dxc5 Nxc5 19. Nxc5 Bxc5 20. Nxe4 Rfe8 21. d3 Nd4 22. Qg2 f5 23. c3 fxe4 24. cxd4 exd3+ 25. Kd1 Bxd4 26. Qd5+ Kh8 27. Qxd4 Qc6 28. Re1 Qc2# {White checkmated} 0-1

Nov-29-13		Annie K.: <VBD> extremely cute, and touching, thanks. The language sounds interesting - I haven't checked out the other videos you posted in your forum yet (busy week), but I will watch those too. :) <Switch> ouch, nice trap! =)

Nov-29-13		visayanbraindoctor: <<VBD> extremely cute, and touching> Kids with that kind of mentality would make genuine and good conservationists as adults, if they happen to join a conservationist organization. Unfortunately in the gray zone of human nature, there are also cruel children that torture cats, kick at dogs. Most children seem to be 'neutral' regarding animals. Children though can still learn to change attitudes. Buying a 'cruel' child a puppy to love and take care of might be a good idea to effect a change in attitude toward animals. <The language sounds interesting - I haven't checked out the other videos you posted in your forum yet (busy week), but I will watch those too. :)> I have heard this before; many people keep commenting on the sound of Hiligaynon (Ilonggo Visayan). No other Philippine language has its distinctive sing-song quality (except for dialects of Kinaray-a in adjacent language areas). Part of the reason is that IMO this language requires a marked terminal rising or rarely a descending pitch at the end of each spoken sentence. If the final word of the sentence is inadequate to effect the terminal rising pitch, then the native speaker inserts a kind of nonsense word at the end, such as 'ah', 'ho', 'mo', 'ya' just so the sentence would retain its sing-song quality. Dropping them do not change the meaning of the sentence. Newscasters reading from a script and non-native speakers tend to do away with the terminal change of pitch, and end up sounding artificially flat. No one has an adequate explanation for this. Personally I think it might be a manifestation of the human mind's tendency to appreciate rhythm and music. Ancient Ilonggo children from one generation to the next might have subconsciously and preferentially retained and emphasized the end pitch and nonsense terminal words simply because they naturally liked the sound. Like all non-Tagalog languages of the Philippines, the proportion of Hiligaynon speakers has significantly decreased since WW2, when the Japanese colonial government by executive order first began imposing 'Filipino' which is a dialect or version of Tagalog as de facto national language. I estimate that in 300 to 400 years, the only thing left to remind the world of Hiligaynon's sing-song sound are audio recordings as accents can't be written down.

Nov-30-13		Annie K.: <VBD> Interesting. :) Possibly for two main reasons I can think of - 1. music is soothing, starting with its very early use in lullabies; and 2. there is a good 'socializing' element in this pitch - ending every speech with a "question" tends to keep conversations flowing better, eh? ;) OK, I notice that it's been a while since I picked on the French - or posted any blitz games for that matter... so here goes! :D [Event "FICS rated blitz game"] [Date "2013.11.30"] [White "AnnieK"] [Black "NN"] [WhiteElo "1550"] [BlackElo "1603"] [TimeControl "600+0"] [Mode "ICS"] [Result "1-0"] 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5. Nf3 Qb6 6. a3 Nge7 7. Bd3 cxd4 8. cxd4 Nf5 9. Bxf5 exf5 10. O-O Be6 11. Nc3 Be7 12. b4 O-O 13. Na4 Qc7 14. Bg5 Bxg5 15. Nxg5 h6 16. Nxe6 fxe6 17. Rc1 Qe7 18. Nc5 Rac8 19. b5 Nb8 20. a4 b6 21. Nd3 Nd7 22. Qh5 Rfd8 23. Qg6 Nf8 24. Qh5 Qd7 25. Nf4 Rxc1 26. Rxc1 Rc8 27. Qd1 g5 28. Nh5 Nh7 29. h3 Kf7 30. Kh2 Kg6 31. Ng3 f4 32. Qd3+ Kg7 33. Nh5+ Kg8 34. Qg6+ Kf8 35. Rxc8+ Qxc8 36. Qxh7 Qc4 37. Qg7+ Ke8 38. Nf6+ 1-0

Dec-03-13		Annie K.: <How Not To Play the French>, chapter MMMDCCLXVIII... ;s [Event "FICS rated blitz game"] [Date "2013.12.04"] [White "AnnieK"] [Black "NN"] [WhiteElo "1554"] [BlackElo "1656"] [TimeControl "600+0"] [Mode "ICS"] [Result "1-0"] 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5. Nf3 Qb6 6. a3 Nge7 7. Bd3 Bd7 8. Bc2 cxd4 9. cxd4 Rc8 10. b4 a5 11. Bd2 axb4 12. axb4 Nxb4 13. Ba4 Nec6 14. Be3 Be7 15. O-O O-O 16. Nbd2 Ra8 17. Rb1 Qc7 18. Bxc6 Bxc6 19. Bg5 Na6 20. h3 h6 21. Be3 Rfc8 22. Nh2 Nb8 23. Qg4 Kh8 24. Qh5 Bf8 25. Ng4 g6 26. Qh4 h5 27. Nf6 Qe7 28. Bg5 Qc7 29. g4 Nd7 30. gxh5 Nxf6 31. Bxf6+ Kg8 32. hxg6 fxg6 33. Qh8+ Kf7 34. Nf3 Ke8 35. Ng5 Qd7 36. Qg8 (Black resigns) 1-0

Dec-04-13		Thanh Phan: A cute cat ad ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJPJ...

Dec-05-13		visayanbraindoctor: <Thanh Phan> That's the cutest pet advertisement I have ever seen.

Dec-05-13		MarkFinan: Hi Annie.. I just read your reply to a message on facebook, and I have to say that's very sweet the things you said to me 😃 I hope people don't think that just because you're serious on here, you aren't friendly, kind and don't laugh at all in other aspects of your life. Like I said. Very sweet, so thank you 😃 ✌

Dec-06-13		Annie K.: <Thanh> I agree with <Sri Doc>, that's way too cute! Thanks. :D Hi <Mark>, glad to see you're around and in good spirits. :) PS - I only do 'serious' on a part-time basis! ;s

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