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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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Jan-05-14		Annie K.: Heh, sorry, I'm not touching a Google plus link with a pitchfork. :) <dakkie> indeed, and the obvious next step would be a few Bishop experiments. Let me know your findings!

Jan-05-14		Alien Math: Find archive page <Our cats and all about them : their varieties, habits, and management, and for show, the standard of excellence and beauty (1889)> https://archive.org/details/ourcats...

Jan-05-14		Annie K.: Thanks, really nice book! I've been reading some of it. The purebreds are not particularly interesting to me, but on the individual cat level, anecdotes and observations are always nice. They have such different personalities, cats - I've interacted with dozens, many of them closely, and never knew two very alike. :)

Jan-06-14		Catfriend: Belated Happy New Year indeed!

Jan-06-14		visayanbraindoctor: A remarkable case of conjoined twins in the Gray Whale. Too bad it was a miscarriage. http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/natu... Conjoined twins, also known as Siamese twins, are all identical twins. If the twinning process occurs late in embryological development, the twins do not separate totally. I have had the experience of assisting in an operation for a conjoined twin. They could not be separated at first operation. The babies, still joined, unfortunately eventually died of sepsis.

Jan-07-14		Thanh Phan: That's the link to the book about cats, I must have been half asleep when I found it, Found a cool vid about keeping your native language Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNOi... has a CC button for translations

Jan-07-14		visayanbraindoctor: <Thanh Phan> You might find my views on <English is a global language; speaking it is perceived as a sign of being modern. But -- what do we lose when we leave behind our mother tongues?> peculiar. I am a language activist in my country (in fact, one of the founders of conscious Philippine language activism), someone who tries to preserve the ancient and true ethnic identities of the peoples of the Philippines, which means preserving their languages, the carrier of ethnolinguistic identity. In my setting, all the real languages activists with no exception advocate the use of both the non-Tagalog languages and English. Why? Because English acts as a <leveling tongue>. All Filipino citizens are forced to learn Tagalog by the school system, central government institutions and mass media because they essentially and effectively define a Filipino to be a Tagalog. That has the effect of discriminating against non-Tagalog Philippine citizens and turn them into second class citizens, and will eventually result in their extinction in an estimated 300 years thus turning the Philippines into a Republic of Tagalog. However, if both a Tagalog and a non-Tagalog speak English, a neutral language which no native ethnic group speaks, both suddenly have equal sociological status, rather than when one is forced to speak the language of the other. The same phenomenon of a leveling tongue occurs in some African countries. French acts as the leveling tongue, and according to some minority ethnolinguistic groups, the use of French has actually saved their ethnic tribe/ people/ and ancient ethnic culture from extinction through assimilation into the larger adjacent ethnic groups. When individuals from the majority and minority ethnic groups speak in a neutral language to each other, which is French in the African cases, the minority groups are suddenly at equal status with the majority. I normally do not discuss these issues in a chess forum, as it's heavily politically loaded in my setting, but I can't just let the wrong ideas float around and from a well meaning person such as you. You mean well but you may be unknowingly pushing for an idea harmful to what you wish for. In the Philippines, all bonafide language activists are also English advocates (aside form advocates of their dying minority languages), and all committed Tagalista ideologues hate English and have attempted and are attempting to remove it from school curriculum by gradually replacing it totally with Tagalog and nothing else. They have already succeeded in totally removing Spanish language subjects in the past, which has had the effect of cutting us off from the Latin Americans (who share similarities in our recent histories), and made us ignoramuses of all the rich world literature in Spanish. As for non-Tagalog languages, school children are in many cases fined by 'Filipino' teachers if caught speaking their parents' languages, the equivalent of the pre-WW2 racist practice of washing native American children's mouth with soap if caught speaking in their parents' tongue. In the video, it may sound well and good to the Lebanese Arabic speaker to advocate the use of Arabic, but I wonder how she would react if the minority Aramaic (now spoken by only a very few Lebanese citizens), the pre-Arab language of her country and probably of her ancestors, would suddenly be recognized as official in her country, where it used to be the lingua franca before the Arab conquest. If you wish to discuss preserving minority ethnolinguistic peoples, it would be best that you go to language activist sites on it. But degrading English in places where it acts as a leveling tongue that actually aids minority peoples resist being assimilated into majority ethnic groups is NOT the way to do it. Regarding Vietnam, you come from the majority ethnic group, and I do not know how well aware you are of the struggles of your minority peoples for survival. Let me say though that I like the way the Vienamese government has partially recognized your minority peoples, at least in the Vietnamese constitution. Viet Nam Constitution as adopted on 15 April 1992. Article 5 The Socialist Republic of Vietnam State is a unified State of the people of various nationalities who live in Vietnamese territory. It implements the policy of equality, solidarity, and mutual assistance among all nationalities, and strictly forbids all discriminatory and divisive behaviour among nationalities. All nationalities are authorised to use their own languages and writing; preserve their own ethnic identities; and develop their fine customs, practices, traditions, and cultures. Article 133 The people's courts shall ensure on behalf of citizens of all nationalities in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam the right to use their own spoken languages and scripts before the courts.

Jan-07-14		Thanh Phan: <visayanbraindoctor: If you wish to discuss preserving minority ethnolinguistic peoples, it would be best that you go to language activist sites on it. But degrading English in places where it acts as a leveling tongue that actually aids minority peoples resist being assimilated into majority ethnic groups is NOT the way to do it.> Thank you for "deciding for me" what I was attempting to do, which was to show another's point of view on the subject, not being an activist, I just thought it was interesting, done here I think, sorry

Jan-11-14		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> Congratulations on winning Cutest Avatar! :)

Jan-11-14		WCC Editing Project: My dear <Annie> What a fabulous post you just put in the admin forum. One of the main advantages of being a person with excellent "anger control skills" (you, not me, obviously) is that on those very rare occasions when you do express anger, it is extremely effective. Also congratulations, and please extend further congratulations to all the kittez who have graced your life, for your important Caissar award!

Jan-11-14		Annie K.: Heh, thanks <Jess> and <Switch>! The new rules are obviously better, eh? ;) <VBD> I've been interested in cases of conjoined twins myself. They raise some of the most difficult ethical questions. <Thanh> thanks. :)

Jan-11-14		Domdaniel: Hey, Con-grat-u-lations! One for the felines, eh?

Jan-11-14		Annie K.: Thanks, hon. Next phase, we take over the world. Then the solar system, and then the galaxy. After that, we'll decide if we have any really ambitious plans. :)

Jan-11-14		Domdaniel: But of course. It's a small galaxy.

Jan-12-14		jessicafischerqueen: The Caissars chessforum <I vote for <Domdaniel> for funniest poster (despite previous post)... :p> AHHHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAAHA

Jan-12-14		Domdaniel: Are you ladies laughing at me? OK, I prolly deserve it. But ease up, huh? Do I want to win the Caissar for <funniest-looking kibbutzer> anyhoo? But of course. An award is, like, an award. Respect of one's, uh, peers. And all that.

Jan-12-14		Annie K.: Naah. :) Oy, peers. I had this cat here last week, let him stay inside as he was a bit sick. An adult alleycat, not housebroken, see. Don't talk to me about peers... :s

Jan-12-14		Domdaniel: Heh. Let us spray...

Jan-12-14		OhioChessFan: Let us spay.

Jan-12-14		Domdaniel: I <heart> my dog, and I <spade> my cat...? And I <club> my gerbils.

Jan-12-14		Annie K.: Um, sounds slightly ominous? Anyhoo, about that <diamond>...? ;p Heh. I just located again a Flash quest game I have run across a while back, and had really amused me: <Renegade's Sleeping Beauty>. When you pick the Full Dialogue option, and read everything, it's just hilarious. Takes quite a while to load, but even that part is funny. :p Warmly recommended. <Dom> especially to you - you'll see why... ;) http://www.fizzy.com/games/renegade...

Jan-12-14		OhioChessFan: <Anyhoo, about that <diamond>...? > SwitchingQuylthulg chessforum

Jan-13-14		Alien Math: Actually, Your Cat Thinks You Are a Giant Cat Consider yourself a kitten's mommy? You're actually more like its freakishly large roommate. http://newsfeed.time.com/2014/01/07... Some interest to note Hoàng Thanh Trang still appears for Việt Nam News \| http://thethao247.vn/tin-the-thao-t...

Jan-13-14		Domdaniel: <Alien Math> -- < You're actually more like its freakishly large roommate.> Yes, most cat 'owners' know this (although nobody ever really owns a cat!). They regard us as weirdly sensory deprived, but with a few useful skills -- opening food cans, doors, etc. With some training, we may eventually qualify as cats.

Jan-14-14		kingscrusher: AnnieK and friends (copied to Jessica as well) You may be interested to know that I am sticking up for Chessgames.com on the ECF Chess forum. I do find it a great resource, but it seems a few there don't share the view very much. http://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic... Feel free to chip in - it isn't restricted to ECF members or anything. Best wishes Tryfon

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