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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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Dec-24-13		wordfunph: Annie, Merry Christmas!

Dec-25-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> Acthually, I thuthpect ecthtra dentithtth would only therve to make tingth even worthe... having lethth dentithtth thoundth mutthh more promithing. At leatht louthy toot care might have interethting thide effectth :) As a sidenote, we spell "tanks" with an Ä.

Dec-25-13		Annie K.: Tänkth, <Thwitch> good pointth. =) <wordz> to you and yours too! :)

Dec-25-13		Domdaniel: On the subject of fricking dentists, etc. (1) My father used to say that all a dentist needed was a strong right arm and an indifference to human suffering. (2) A song by the Bonzo Dog Band, 'Labio-Dental Fricative', goes something like this: "Cannibal chiefs chew cannabis leaves 'cos chewing makes them cheeky..."

Dec-25-13		Annie K.: Sounds about right... on both counts. Of course, one should be slightly wary when discussing teeth and Counts with a Transylvanian... :)

Dec-26-13		Alien Math: Merry Christmas~ Happy Holidays! to cats counts dentists teeth and Transylvanian ^.^ http://cheezburger.com/4188708864

Dec-26-13		Domdaniel: <A> Happy, uh, interval-between xtian-fest & new year ...

Dec-26-13		Annie K.: <G> heh, works for me. Happy Ditto to you too! <Alien Math> thanks. :)

Dec-26-13		Domdaniel: <A> Yeah, happy ditto!

Dec-26-13		Annie K.: In fact, happy Nukluar Double Ditto. ;)

Dec-27-13		visayanbraindoctor: <dakgootje: Depends on how strong a grasp of the language you start with :) By the way, for learning languages > I know that most kibitzers in CG speak Indo-European languages and nothing else. I am wondering how easy or difficult it is for an Indo-European language speaker to learn the grammar rules of agglutinative languages such as many Asian ones (or even Hungarian, a Uralic language which I have read is also agglutinative and originated in Asia)?

Dec-28-13		dakgootje: Muchhhhh harder. In general if you take a Dutch sentence and you translate each word to English, you get a nigh-correct English sentence. Sometimes a verb will have to be placed a bit to the front or the back - but grammar is simply extremely comparable. Or to translate that last sentence piece "maar grammatica is gewoon extreem vergelijkbaar". Each word stays in place. Furthermore, words often have common roots, so they'll be recognizable. For instance grammar versus grammatica. Same goes with German, and as far as I know the Scandinavian languages. There are very clear difference with Romance languages. For instance the object and adjective are switched around [a red apple -> una manzana roja]. Although for instance French has about two dozen exceptions to this. However, that all said, structures still remain in place. Subject-verb-object etc. Changing such ideas is probably extremely hard to comprehend, more difficult than agglutinative properties. The latter often takes place, to some extend. However if you make sentences wherein for instance the verb takes precedence before the subject and object it's rather counterintuitive. Not a big problem when you deal with short basic sentences - but rather hard in practice.

Dec-28-13		visayanbraindoctor: <dakgootje: However, that all said, structures still remain in place. Subject-verb-object etc. Changing such ideas is probably extremely hard to comprehend, more difficult than agglutinative properties. The latter often takes place, to some extend. However if you make sentences wherein for instance the verb takes precedence before the subject and object it's rather counterintuitive.> But verb-subject-object is the usual word order used in Philippine type Austronesian languages! Nearly every sentence begins with the verb. It's a reverse of the European <Subject-verb-object>. I did not realize that it's more difficult to comprehend for Europeans until you just said so. I was under the impression all a European or American needs to do is just to automatically reverse the normal word order of his native language, and he will be able to learn our languages quickly. The child ate the fish. (subject-verb-object) If translated to Sugbuanon Visayan, it would come out as: (Gikaon) (sa bata) (ang isda). (Ate) (the child) (the fish). (verb-subject-object) would be the literal English translation.

Dec-28-13		dakgootje: < I did not realize that it's more difficult to comprehend for Europeans until you just said so.> It's not really difficult as such - however such grammatical rules are simply ingrained in the idea how languages works. For instance compare these sentences: Qwerty likes blue cars. John qwerties blue cars. John likes qwerty cars. John likes blue qwerties. Clearly Qwerty/qwerties means respectively the sentences' subject, verb, adjective, and noun. Even though we don't know the word as such, we have a broad idea of its function. Similar when learning a grammatically comparable different language. It's plug and play. Words are different, structural assumptions are the same. Consequently that greatly increases the speed with which the language is learned. If instead I wanted to learn your Sugbuanon Visayan, I could take my trustworthy dictionary and end up with Ate the child the fish. Alright. So who ate who? I'd grab my notes, search and see, ah!, the child is eating. A few weeks later I wouldn't need my notes for that. Some months later I might use the proper word order without actively thinking about it. But it takes time. So it isn't difficult as such. It's rather an additional source of novelty. In general languages aren't <hard>, but they break the concept of how languages ought to behave. From an outsider's perspective, it's not really logical to speak of a blue car, rather than a car blue. After all, let's first define what we're talking about (a car) and then specify it further (it's blue). But that's how English behaves.

Dec-28-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <dak> That's what makes Finnish so easy to learn. The usual word order is subject-verb-object... but with simple sentences like that it doesn't really matter. You can put the three any which way without changing the meaning much :)

Dec-28-13		dakgootje: The sole problem with Finnish is that it has so many vowels, so my vocal cords immediately give up :)

Dec-28-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: One of them only exists so we can mock the Swedes. It's not needed for anything else :-)

Dec-28-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: Queens are so five minutes ago :s [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2013.12.28"] [Round "?"] [White "Quylthulg"] [Black "NN"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2032"] [BlackElo "1909"] [ECO "A01"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. b3 d5 2. Bb2 c5 3. e3 Nc6 4. Bb5 Bf5 5. f4 e6 6. Nf3 f6 7. O-O Bd6 8. d3 Ne7 9. Nbd2 Bg6 10. g3 O-O 11. e4 d4 12. Bc4 Bf7 13. e5 fxe5 14. Ng5 Nd5 15. Nde4 exf4 16. Nxf7 Rxf7 17. Qg4 Qe7 18. Ng5 Rf5 19. Qxf5 exf5 20. Bxd5+ Kf8 21. Nxh7+ Ke8 22. Rae1 Be5 23. Bxc6+ bxc6 24. gxf4 Kd7 25. Rxe5 Qh4 26. Ng5 Rh8 27. Nf3 Qxf4 28. Rxc5 Rh6 29. Ne5+ {Black forfeits by disconnection} 1-0

Dec-28-13		Domdaniel: Actually, word order (SVO, VOS, SOV, etc) varies widely, even among Indo-European languages. For example, Irish Gaelic is VSO - a relatively rare sequence, while English, Latin and Lithuanian have other patterns. Word order is not the most difficult aspect of learning an unfamiliar language -- unfamiliar phonetics is perhaps a greater challenge.

Dec-28-13		Shams: <Domdaniel> Have you ever heard Manx Gaelic? My favorite fact about it is that there is a Northern and a Southern dialect!

Dec-28-13		Domdaniel: <Shams> I've seen examples of written Manx ... it looks like Irish Gaelic, but written in a phonetic system more akin to English, which is weird. I hadn't known there were North & South dialects, but I'm not surprised -- the northern and southern dialects of Irish are only very dimly mutually comprehensible.

Dec-28-13		Annie K.: I know about Manx cats, but I believe they speak the same dialect of Felinese as all other cats. ;s Interesting discussion folks, I'll be catching up in a few days... :)

Dec-28-13		Thanh Phan: Something to remember about learning languages, it shouldn't be an end goal, more of a journey or a tour of a new world, take the time to find some songs with subtitles in both languages is also helpful - http://www.lingholic.com/make-life-...

Dec-28-13		Shams: <Thanh Phan> I'm impressed, your own English has gotten much better over the past couple years. Do you work hard at it? Please say yes. A "no" would just depress me.

Dec-28-13		Annie K.: <Shams> heh. <Thanh> Absolutely. Also, "re-"reading favorite (i.e., already well-known books) in the language you want to learn, is a great way to gain both vocabulary and a 'feel' for the correct usage of many expressions. :)

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