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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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Dec-06-13		Domdaniel: Hey there. I eventually got back online, though who knows how long it will last. All things seem rather shaky and temporary just now -- though that is not cause for concern. Anyhoo, I've seen the evidence. Strange. I'll be back. ;)

Dec-07-13		Annie K.: <G> you had better be. Where else could you have so much fun all in one place? ;D

Dec-08-13		visayanbraindoctor: <Annie K.> I managed to watch Ender's Game the movie. IMO it was not as great as the book.

Dec-08-13		TheFocus: <Annie> I know you don't want me posting here, but there have been times that I have been impressed with something you have posted, and wanted to give you praise for it. I hope you will allow those types of posts to stand. You can delete them at your discretion.

Dec-08-13		Annie K.: <TheFocus> note, I am not very comfortable with praise. ;s OK, you can participate here if you want to. BTW, I'm watching your recent initiative with interest... and considerable skepticism. So go ahead and prove me wrong - let's see if you can retain a positive net contribution for a year or so. Good luck. ;) <VBD> thanks, not surprised... did they at least manage to do something impressive with the action scenes, and particularly with "the enemy's gate is down"? :)

Dec-08-13		TheFocus: <Annie> Then I will ask again in a year.

Dec-09-13		visayanbraindoctor: <did they at least manage to do something impressive with the action scenes, and particularly with "the enemy's gate is down"? :)> No. It's almost a forgettable movie. But that's just from my viewpoint.

Dec-13-13		Alien Math: Note of interest <annie K.> about Opera browser, used only for addon <SmartVideo For YouTube> allows Loop for any video started, Normal search with Google Chrome, Lunascape (now up to 6 version) or Pale Moon, Maxthon Cloud Browser, might check more for Opera browser usage besides YouTube :)

Dec-13-13		visayanbraindoctor: <Annie K.: Thanks for update. All these operations can't be too good for him either... and I'm also getting an impression that inasmuch as he is self-aware, he must be getting close to giving up just out of being tired of all the pain. :(> Truth is that 26M s at the back of my mind almost everyday, a persistent shadow that worries me like an ingrown nail. I am following my policy that I do everything that can be done for as long as the family remains aggressive, cooperative, and buys all the patient's needs. (If you're curious, yes I have not gotten paid for the more than a dozen additional operations I have done on the patient, and I am not complaining either because it's my choice not to expect payment.) It would not be such a problem in countries where most citizens have private medical insurances. The insurance pays for all the expenses, and might even pay the doctor.

Dec-13-13		Annie K.: <Alien Math> I've been using Opera as my main browser for many years, but I hardly ever go to YouTube... Thanks for that list of browsers, I may give the new ones a try too. :) <VBD> I appreciate that. I hope you understand that I never intend anything I ask as criticism or even double-guessing what you do - you are very obviously a highly competent and experienced professional, as well as a wonderful and caring person. I'm just asking about details because I'm curious. :)

Dec-13-13		Alien Math: <Annie K.> Find browser herd list from http://www.techsupportalert.com/bes... Mega browser are most common of, lightweight browser are limit the cpu usage, Other browsers alternate of main browsers, Her usage of Maxthon browser for Blade and Soul, a Chinese game, note English patch for game, also for some alternate translate ability. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compar... compares web browsers in essentially 11 categories. For a web browser to be classified as Mega, it must compare to IE, Chrome and Firefox in all 11 categories.

Dec-13-13		Annie K.: Getting back to a point I have some ideas about, WRT 'Think Like A Dinosaur' and the rest of the Beam-Me-Up-Scotty branch of SF... Namely, why are people (the readers and writers of this very popular subgenre, that is) so willing to overlook, gloss over, ignore... the "little technical detail" that the original has to be killed (whether unavoidably by the teleportation process itself, or by some sort of deliberate execution justified by the necessity (stipulated for the moment, anyhoo) of avoiding armies of duplicates? Especially if we take one step even further back and stop to think why this subgenre is so popular in the first place - to which I believe the answer is that it's one of the most appealing paths in the primal human 'Search for Immortality' drive. The same drive that makes people want to have kids, or create lasting masterpieces in literature, sculpture, painting, architecture, or any other forms of art or science. The teleportation subgenre is actually a subset of the cloning subgenre, and that's how it fits into the immortality quest theme... But exactly because the key to the popularity of teleportation SF is the perceived advantage of <personal survival> (as opposed to merely leaving behind something lasting of yourself), it's even more curious how rarely it is noticed that this perception is completely false! The <why> of all this is intriguing. My theory on this subject is that it has everything to do with a subject I already discussed a few years back* - the fact that humans actually have trouble with objective statistical comprehension, because we are hardwired to be optimistic as a survival trait. How does this compute? ;) Well, thing is, people tend to be very willing to believe anything that gives them hope. And the plausible glitch in reasoning is here: in the course of a teleportation/cloning process, there are two individuals who "are" the teleportee: the original, and the clone. Therefore, looking to the outcome of the process (ie: one of them survives) rather than the "mechanism" of it, people assume that they have a 50-50 chance of their coming out of the process as the survivor of the two. Wrong: the original always dies. There is absolutely no chance of personal survival via this route, zero, nil... and yet people are thinking that they would only be taking a "reasonable chance" in this process! Fascinating. ;s * (for the original discussion on the human optimism vs statistical understanding battle, see starting with the last paragraph of this post: Domdaniel chessforum, and it goes on for a bit...) :p

Dec-13-13		visayanbraindoctor: <Annie K.> Guess I am just frustrated with 26M. His case can go on and on. I have heard that there was one patient with hydrocephalus who also developed multiple blockages in her ventricular system. More than 50 revision operations of the ventricular catheter had been done when I last heard about it, although this is just grapevine news and may not be that accurate.

Dec-13-13		visayanbraindoctor: <Annie K.> just how, why, and when one becomes more judgemental. The answer to that one is still not in, except for my observation that children seem to be completely unjudgmental until they pick up a "good/bad" cue from the adults around them on any given subject, and then that's The Way It Is. Just a survival mechanism of the Primate order, I suppose.> All of us have early childhood memories. Your post made me try to recall them. I think you are right. I cannot recall being judgmental during early childhood. Yet I do recall that I loved puppies. First puppy gifted to me when I was around 5, I always fed and carried around. I ended up with the same attitude as that boy in the <Namets Ilonggo> film. Now my best childhood friend was just the opposite. He liked kicking at dogs and cats! Yet I was completely non-judgmental, and we were great fiends before we drifted off on other careers during college. If we got to know each other in late childhood, after some rudimentary judgment function has develop in children I would probably never have chosen to be friends with him. It seems to me that that basic values of mercy vs cruelty, love vs cynicism, honesty vs cheat if you can get away with it, and so on all develop during early childhood. A child who steals the rice of his sibling from the bowl if no one is looking will tend to have the same attitude as an adult. Some of these childhood values look to me as innate. Others can be developed if done early. That's why I was thinking that giving a small child a puppy to love and take care off might eventually orient him into a caring adult.

Dec-14-13		Annie K.: <Guess I am just frustrated with 26M.> Yes, of course you are. It's not even a case of "there's nothing to do" - there's plenty to do, but the prognosis stays bad all the same. :\ Thanks for the comment on that earlier discussion - I like revisiting those after a while. :) And a very good example. <Some of these childhood values look to me as innate.> Hard to say. The nature vs. nurture arguments go on endlessly, and I don't think a conclusion is even possible, as this isn't a black or white issue. A severe inborn deficiency in social intelligence may lead a child to grow up to be a psychopath no matter what; a less severe case may be improved or worsened by upbringing, and likewise, neglect or other abuse may create a monster out of an originally not mentally damaged child - but there's more than one path to any outcome. <That's why I was thinking that giving a small child a puppy to love and take care off might eventually orient him into a caring adult.> Sounds like a good idea, though of course the child's parents would need to pay attention to the puppy's welfare too.

Dec-15-13		jessicafischerqueen: <Annie> You are now immortalized on a Chess Base article eh? They embedded your fine video on the proper pronunciation of <Max HOOVER>! Congratulations! http://en.chessbase.com/post/alekhi... You got props here from the author: <Few names among the world champions have been subject to as many varied (and wrong) pronunciations as that of Max Euwe. Here is a 16-second video showing the correct pronunciation.> Might have been nicer if he'd bothered to give your name, but "embedders" almost never do that. I think they just assume everything on youtube is "free," which actually isn't a bad attitude to have. Also, unlike you most people use ridiculous fake names on their videos such as "jessicafischerqueen" or "alecksandrkoblents." Only the internets "in the know cognoscentis" have seen the kitty and horse photos that prove your real existence.

Dec-15-13		Domdaniel: <Annie> Thanks for that pointer to the good old days, sabretooth guy and his friends. Innaresting stuff. Have I mentioned <Slugg's Law>? It's my theory that any species sufficiently complex to invent a teleportation device is too complex to be teleported. Slugs can be teleported, but can't invent the device.

Dec-15-13		Domdaniel: <VBD> -- < we were great fiends before we drifted off on other careers during college> Eh, is that really what you meant?

Dec-15-13		Annie K.: <Jess> A-ha! So that's why I keep getting these notifications about new subscribers! Thanks, I had no idea what was up with that. Kewl. :D <Dom> Heh, good point. Well, maybe there comes a point when a species is sufficiently complex to invent a teleportation device that is sufficiently complex to teleport a species of their own complexity? This gets complex, though. ;s

Dec-15-13		OhioChessFan: Seems to me only the dog kicker was a fiend. Maybe <VBD> kicked goldfish or something.

Dec-15-13		Domdaniel: "jessicafischerqueen" is a "ridiculous fake name"? Who knew?

Dec-15-13		Domdaniel: <Ohio> Kicking goldfish? Isn't that an Olympic swimming stroke?

Dec-15-13		OhioChessFan: Kicking pampered goldfish is an Olympiad event.

Dec-15-13		Annie K.: Well, it <is> difficult to kick anything underwater.

Dec-15-13		jessicafischerqueen: <D-dawg> Yo in fact you might be surprised how many punters at chess.com and youtube ask me if I'm Bobby's daughter.

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