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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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Jan-14-14		kingscrusher: Sorry here is the link for those interested: http://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic...

Jan-15-14		Annie K.: Thanks, <Tryfon>! There's also a discussion at Karpova's forum about this, if you're interested. :) Starting about here: Karpova chessforum

Jan-17-14		MarkFinan: Annie.. How come that the people who have won the previous legs at the chessbookies, and therefore starting with 10,000 chess bucks, in the same leg as the rest of us who once again started with 1000 chess bucks? Because surely that's not right and there must be a mistake because the previous winners don't even have to make a wager and they'll still beat 99.5% of the rest of us! Shouldn't it be separated into 2 groups..The previous winners, and the rest of us? ✌

Jan-17-14		Annie K.: <Mark> I'll refer you to <Switch> with that question, I think he knows the answer by heart by now... ;) <Ohio> thanks for stuffz. :) <Dom> & <AM> heh. My cats all do the kneading thing, and the rubbing and head bumping too, as the context of the conversation requires, so it's not that simple. ;s

Jan-18-14		Annie K.: Thanks to <Tryfon> for pointing me to this new(?) free chess site: http://en.lichess.org! I just tried playing there, and I really like the simplicity of the interface. They have 960 too - haven't run into any castling bugs yet, but typing is not an option, so we'll see... if that's not too buggy, I will definitely have to be adding it to my profile, um, one of these days. ;)

Jan-21-14		visayanbraindoctor: Polar bears changing diet in the face of a melting arctic? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUGY... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiAr...

Jan-21-14		visayanbraindoctor: How are dolphins able to swim 10 meters per second? That's 100 meters in 10 seconds. And that's for ordinary dolphins playing around a boat in an ordinary day for them. As a comparison the world 100 meter freestyle record held by Brazilian César Cielo is at 46.91 seconds. This record was made using the now banned polyurethane suit, and so probably will never be broken unless similar suits can again be used to artificially increase a swimmer's speed. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...

Jan-22-14		Annie K.: Thanks for the articles <VBD>. :) And sorry to hear about the troubles in your area, again. :( I've been reading your entries, as always, just haven't had much energy to post this week - it's been hectic around here, what with taking care of a very sick kitten with acute pneumonia. Looks like she'll be all right, at least. And that means I am now officially up to 4 full-time housecats. I would appreciate it if somebody would assure me that this is still sane. :s Well, I would appreciate it, but I wouldn't believe them... ;p

Jan-23-14		visayanbraindoctor: <Annie K.: very sick kitten with acute pneumonia> Regarding cats and kittens in danger, a teen evacuee told me that she carried her household cat and her half-grown kitten in a carton box above flood waters while evacuating. Afterward the cats did not have to be fed. They hunted and feasted on rats that the flood waters had flushed out into the open.

Jan-23-14		chancho: <AnnieK> I have a Cat and a Chihuahua running around my House creating mayhem, and here you are expertly managing 4 Cats... you must be crazy. http://sd.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/i/...

Jan-24-14		Annie K.: <VBD> always glad to hear accounts of people taking their responsibility for their pets seriously. :) <chancho> yeah, I knew that... ;)

Jan-24-14		crawfb5: <And that means I am now officially up to 4 full-time housecats. I would appreciate it if somebody would assure me that this is still sane. :s Well, I would appreciate it, but I wouldn't believe them... ;p> With five dogs in the house (down from six!), I can assure you it isn't. I do sometimes think they're cats when it's time to herd them back inside. When I get home from work they all want to play Hop on Pop.

Jan-25-14		Annie K.: <craw> thanks, I feel better now. ;) Good to see you around again, btw. Sanity is overrated. :p Speakinof chess, here's a game from the lichess site, where I've played about 100 games so far... [Event "Rated game"] [Site "http://lichess.org/n76cxwbq"] [Date "2014.01.25"] [White "AnnieK"] [Black "Kosor"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "1852"] [BlackElo "1684"] [PlyCount "51"] [Variant "Standard"] 1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. f4 c5 4. c3 cxd4 5. cxd4 Qb6 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. e5 Nh6 8. Be2 Nf5 9. d5 Qa5+ 10. Bd2 Qxd5 11. O-O Ncd4 12. Nc3 Nxe2+ 13. Qxe2 Qc5+ 14. Kh1 Nd4 15. Nxd4 Qxd4 16. Rad1 Qb4 17. Be1 O-O 18. Nd5 Qc5 19. Bb4 Qc6 20. Nxe7+ Kh8 21. Nxc6 dxc6 22. Bxf8 Bxf8 23. Rd8 Kg8 24. f5 gxf5 25. Qh5 Kg7 26. Qg5+ (Black forfeits by disconnection) 1-0

Jan-25-14		crawfb5: <Annie> I suppose at this point I should be happy to be anywhere. I did briefly break the 2300 barrier at CW (2301), but just as quickly blundered away 20 points. This one just ended and is a case of a King walk gone wrong. crawfb5-NN 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Nxc6 dxc6 7.Qxd8+ Kxd8 8.Bc4 e6 9.Bg5 Be7 10.O-O-O+ Kc7 11.Bf4+ Kb6 12.Na4+ Ka5 13.b3 b5 14.Bc7+ Kb4 15.c3+ Ka3 16.Nb6 Ra7 17.Bf4 Kxa2 18.Kc2 bxc4 19.Ra1+ ♗lack king mated 1-0 Yes, the Black King <was> mated on a2. :-)

Jan-26-14		Annie K.: <craw> Ouch. :s I only play 10 0 these days (regular or 960) - losses like that can still happen, but are less embarrassing when you can blame them on time pressure. ;) <Switch> you should try lichess too, I think you'd like it. For one thing, they don't seem to think that 10 0 is blitz. ;) The 960 can be a bit buggy with the castling too, but that will probably be the case with any site where you can't type the move. There is little customizability, but they have the more important choices covered well enough. I really like the site so far. :)

Jan-26-14		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> OK, currently trying lichess... I think I prefer FICS :s Here's one of my early lichess games: [Event "Rated game"] [Site "http://lichess.org/n94jjq6p"] [Date "2014.01.26"] [Round "?"] [White "JulianGoater"] [Black "NN"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "1984"] [BlackElo "2072"] [ECO "A01"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. b3 e6 2. Bb2 d5 3. e3 Nf6 4. f4 c5 5. Nf3 Nc6 6. Bb5 Be7 7. Ne5 Bd7 8. Nxd7 Qxd7 9. O-O a6 10. Bxc6 bxc6 11. d3 O-O 12. Nd2 d4 13. e4 e5 14. f5 g6 15. Nc4 Qc7 16. Bc1 Kg7 17. Nxe5 Qxe5 18. Bf4 Qxf4 19. Rxf4 Nh5 20. Rf2 Bg5 21. Kh1 Be3 22. Rf3 Nf4 23. Qf1 Nh5 24. f6+ Kh8 25. g4 Rfg8 26. gxh5 gxh5 27. Rg3 Rxg3 28. hxg3 Rg8 29. Qf3 Rg5 30. e5 Rxe5 31. Qxc6 Re8 32. Qxe8# 1-0

Jan-26-14		SwitchingQuylthulg: Another fun lichess game :-) [Event "Rated game"] [Site "http://lichess.org/noapdbts"] [Date "2014.01.26"] [Round "?"] [White "NN"] [Black "JulianGoater"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1827"] [BlackElo "2191"] [ECO "A40"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. d4 Nc6 2. e3 d5 3. f4 Bf5 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. Bd3 Bxd3 6. cxd3 e6 7. O-O Be7 8. Ne5 Nd7 9. Qb3 Ncxe5 10. fxe5 O-O 11. Qd1 c5 12. dxc5 d4 13. exd4 b6 14. b4 Nxe5 15. dxe5 Qd4+ 16. Kh1 Qxa1 17. Nd2 bxc5 18. bxc5 Qxe5 19. Ne4 Bxc5 20. Qg4 f5 21. Qg3 fxe4 22. Qxe5 Rxf1# 0-1

Jan-27-14		MarkFinan: Nice touch at the bookies, AK47 ;)

Jan-27-14		SwitchingQuylthulg: Why simplifying when ahead isn't always a good idea :-) [Event "Rated game"] [Site "http://lichess.org/rs6r7oyc"] [Date "2014.01.27"] [Round "?"] [White "NN"] [Black "JulianGoater"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1987"] [BlackElo "2244"] [ECO "A10"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. c4 Nc6 2. d4 d5 3. cxd5 Qxd5 4. Nf3 Bg4 5. Nc3 Qd8 6. d5 Bxf3 7. exf3 Ne5 8. Qb3 e6 9. Bf4 Bd6 10. Bb5+ Nd7 11. Bxd6 cxd6 12. dxe6 fxe6 13. Rad1 Ngf6 14. Rxd6 O-O 15. Qxe6+ Rf7 16. O-O Qe8 17. Re1 Qxe6 18. Rexe6 a6 19. Ba4 Nc5 20. Bb3 Nxb3 21. axb3 h6 22. Ne4 Nxe4 23. fxe4 Rc8 24. g3 Rc2 25. f4 Rxb2 26. Rdb6 Rc7 0-1

Jan-27-14		SwitchingQuylthulg: I think lichess ratings may be an itty bit on the high side... :s [Event "Rated game"] [Site "http://lichess.org/7f6af00x"] [Date "2014.01.27"] [Round "?"] [White "NN"] [Black "JulianGoater"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1933"] [BlackElo "2317"] [ECO "A40"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. d4 Nc6 2. c4 d5 3. Nc3 dxc4 4. Nf3 Bg4 5. Ne5 Nxe5 6. dxe5 Qxd1+ 7. Nxd1 O-O-O 8. f3 Bd7 9. e4 b5 10. Be3 a6 11. a4 e6 12. axb5 axb5 13. Ra8+ Kb7 14. Rxd8 Nf6 15. exf6 Bb4+ 16. Kf2 Rxd8 17. fxg7 e5 18. Be2 Be6 19. Nc3 f6 20. Rd1 Rg8 21. Bh6 Bd6 22. Nd5 Bxd5 23. Rxd5 Kb6 24. b3 Bc5+ 25. Kf1 cxb3 26. Bd1 b2 27. Bc2 Ra8 28. Rd1 Bd4 29. Rb1 c5 30. Ke2 c4 31. Kd2 Kc5 32. Be3 b4 33. Bxd4+ exd4 34. Ba4 Rg8 35. Kc2 Rxg7 36. Kxb2 Rxg2+ 37. Ka1 Rxh2 38. Rc1 d3 39. Bb3 c3 40. Kb1 Rb2+ 41. Ka1 Rxb3 42. Rh1 Ra3+ 43. Kb1 b3 44. Rxh7 d2 45. Rd7 c2+ 46. Kb2 c1=Q# 0-1

Jan-27-14		Annie K.: <Switch> great games, I just played through them. :D Yeah, FICS will always be FICS, but it's nice to play in some other pools too, now and then. You're not complaining about your lichess rating, I hope? ;) BTW, what's this handle you're using? :) <Mark> thanks. ;)

Jan-27-14		visayanbraindoctor: First New Species of River Dolphin Discovered in a Century http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...

Jan-28-14		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> Julian Goater was an English distance runner back in the day. My using that name is a reference to the Finnish Santa being "joulupukki", which literally translates as "Yule goat" :)

Jan-29-14		Annie K.: <VBD> thanks! Wow, 2 million years of separation from their nearest relatives? :s Dolphin psychology must be fascinating - it's very difficult for me to imagine what kind of a value system an intelligent creature without hands would have. They are social, have repeatedly demonstrated considerable empathy, and it wouldn't be correct to say that lack of hands had completely stopped them from affecting their environment, but it does preclude a great deal of the kind of creative activities that humans have always spent most of their time with... <Switch> aha, thanks. :) That's all very lateral, and explains a lot - mostly about why you keep winning all those Klus?! ;)

Jan-29-14		visayanbraindoctor: <it's very difficult for me to imagine what kind of a value system an intelligent creature without hands would have. They are social, have repeatedly demonstrated considerable empathy, and it wouldn't be correct to say that lack of hands had completely stopped them from affecting their environment> The dolphin brain is not only as large as its human counterpart, it's also more convoluted. This implies it's even more complex than the human brain, supposedly the most complex structure known to scientists in the Universe. Intentionally killing a dolphin for me is murder of a conscious intelligent being, and should be seen as a crime. <2 million years of separation from their nearest relatives?> Humans and chimpanzees are estimated to have had a common ancestor that lived approximately 5 million years ago. That sounds positively blasphemous for most people. If true, for me it indicates that we are an intrinsic part of this world and implies we should not arrogantly stand ourselves apart. As I have mentioned in a previous post, chimpanzee and human blood are practically the same, with the same ABO and Rh and other antigen systems. No one has had the audacity to try it, but it may be possible to transfuse chimp blood into humans and vice verse, without harmful effects. One can think of a sci-fi world wherein chimpanzees are raised in large numbers in order to provide blood for human operations. There is also the sociologically darker implication that chimps and humans can interbreed. There may have already been such secret experiments on this done in the past.

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