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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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Apr-02-14		Annie K.: <AM> heh, thanks. <wonder when they note imbalanced position?> Probably no later than the point where the imbalance is mathematically expressed by a 1 on my side of the board and a 0 by theirs. ;s <VBD> Fantastic! Hmm... links to articles and pictures I will almost always check out - video links are not nearly as guaranteed, as I really don't like to visit YouTube all that much. But this was definitely worth the trip. Thanks. :)

Apr-03-14		Alien Math: <Annie K.> Alternate to enter main youtube site appear with copy next paste in search, typing 321 before youtube in link, also appear as http://www.321youtube.com/ able Enter Youtube URL or search something

Apr-07-14		Annie K.: <AM> thanks! Very useful, in case I ever want to watch a video at work - my workplace has the YouTube domain blocked, but this back door gets through. OK folks, advance notice: I am going to be in Germany - Berlin, specifically - between the 24th and 27th this month. Another trip organized for company employees. If any of my European friends will be around in that timeframe and wants to meet up, lemme know. :)

Apr-11-14		Annie K.: Fun stuff... ;) [Event "Rated game"] [Site "http://lichess.org/jzovNFZ1"] [Date "2014.04.11"] [White "NN"] [Black "AnnieK"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1645"] [BlackElo "1781"] [Variant "wild/fr"] [FEN "brkrqbnn/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/BRKRQBNN w KQkq - 0 1"] [SetUp "1"] click for larger view 1. d4 b5 2. h3 a6 3. e4 d5 4. e5 e6 5. b3 Bb7 6. Bc3 Ng6 7. Nf3 h6 8. Bb2 c5 9. c3 Qc6 10. h4 Ng6e7 11. g4 f5 12. g5 f4 13. Bh3 Nf5 14. Bxf5 exf5 15. gxh6 Nxh6 16. Ng5 Be7 17. f3 cxd4 18. Rxd4 Bc5 19. Qd2 Bxd4 20. Qxd4 O-O 21. O-O-O Rbc8 22. Kb1 Rc7 23. Rc1 Nf7 24. e6 Nxg5 25. hxg5 Qxe6 26. c4 dxc4 27. bxc4 Bxf3 28. Nf2 bxc4 29. Ka1 Be4 30. Nh3 f3 31. Nf4 Qe7 32. Rh1 Qxg5 33. Ne6 Qg2 34. Rg1 f2 35. Rxg2 f1=Q+ 0-1 click for larger view

Apr-12-14		SwitchingQuylthulg: Indeed. Not sure what NN was aiming for with his Bc3-b2 manoeuvre :)

Apr-15-14		Annie K.: Most likely he just realized that he didn't want to go wandering off with his B while I had a Ba3+ shot waiting in the wings just for that. ;) And now for a fun reg'lar chess miniature: [Event "Rated game"] [Site "http://lichess.org/8inCayyB"] [Date "2014.04.16"] [White "AnnieK"] [Black "NN"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "1829"] [BlackElo "1652"] [PlyCount "33"] [Variant "Standard"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 Be6 5. Nbd2 Bxc4 6. Nxc4 b5 7. Ne3 c5 8. h3 h6 9. O-O Nc6 10. Nf5 Ne7 11. Ng3 Ng6 12. Nh2 Be7 13. Nf5 O-O 14. Ng4 Nxg4 15. Qxg4 Qc8 16. Bxh6 gxh6 17. Nxe7+ 1-0 Heh... :) Hey, I just noticed that lichess PGN doesn't include time information! :s Most of my games these days are 8 0 or 7 0.

Apr-16-14		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie K.: Most likely he just realized that he didn't want to go wandering off with his B while I had a Ba3+ shot waiting in the wings just for that. ;)> Yes, but surely Bb4 would have taken care of that just as well. I'd have thought that was the whole idea behind playing Bc3 to begin with :) Fun game, that regular one. 16.Qxg6 would have been objectively better though :s Naturally, I had to look for other games with that many early knight moves - here are a couple... Savon vs Krogius, 1964 M Lugovskoy vs M Mitiushkin, 2012 The record is A Lehtinen vs J Sietio, 1996, but somehow that feels like cheating :)

Apr-16-14		Alien Math: For some reason fail to find actual info how to differentiate between various Her I His Them statements even using Google Translate, note <Domdanie> are golden with languages, still not understand how to seperate them or

Apr-16-14		Annie K.: Hi <Hanh>! :) When you are talking about yourself, always use versions of 'I': I, me, my, mine. 'I' goes with verbs (actions): I think that... I saw something... I will remember... 'Me' is for when you are on the passive side of an action by somebody else: (You) Tell me how to... She said to me... They will show me examples... 'Me' is also used as 'I' in some dialects, and even as 'my', but that's in minor idioms; leave it alone for now. :) 'My' is when you are talking about something or someone related or belonging to you: My sister, my cats, my book. 'Mine' is used when you give this information about something already being discussed: Visitor: What a pretty cat I saw outside! You: Thanks, she is mine. ;) 'Her' and 'his' are the forms equivalent to 'my' of 'she' and 'he', respectively; you don't use them when you are talking about yourself: She is my sister, and that's her cat. He is my neighbor, and that's his dog. 'Them' is the same form for 'they'. They are coming to visit us tomorrow, because we invited them. I am guessing that you are confused because in your language, you do refer yourself as 'her' as a form of speech / politeness, but this is not customary in English. Please keep asking questions if you want anything explained further. :) <Switch: <I'd have thought that was the whole idea behind playing Bc3 to begin with :)>> Option 1: Well, apparently it wasn't... ;) Option 2: What, and exchange Bishops that early? Where's the fun?! ;s I considered 16.Qxg6, but I sortof preferred trying to win the Queen... :) The Lehtinen games are always favorites when it comes to Knight moves! :D Thx for games, I will check them out this weekend.

Apr-16-14		Annie K.: <Hanh> one more possible point of confusion: the term 'her' is used in two forms. :s One form is the equivalent of 'my', that I already explained: I -> my: I feed my cat he -> his: he feeds his cat she -> her: she feeds her cat - that's the form that comes to mind when you mention 'her' and 'his' together; ...but it's also an equivalent of 'me', the passive form. Then it's mentioned with 'him' rather than 'his': I -> me: I am here, talk to me he -> him: He is here, talk to him she -> her: She is here, talk to her This last, the passive form, is most likely the sense you have been using 'her' in, but it just isn't used that way in English.

Apr-16-14		Alien Math: Hello <Annie K.> express thanks for your understanding, regards <I am guessing that you are confused because in your language, you do refer yourself as 'her' as a form of speech / politeness, but this is not customary in English.> are more close to the Psychlo learning cubes for language acceptable conveying of information from the book Battlefield Earth, as a lower form of her herself acknowledge info needed and expressed towards higher types/others, Yours are one the few that actual notice such, and both surprise and thanks offered for understanding, Appear some adjustment with the Google Translate apply after adjustments are needed, lower form of she is explaining about this or that subject, add info when needed appears, Admit to using Google Translate for most of pages on chessgames.com appear still harbor much to learn even with using Google Translate as quick crutch for information's to convey, and are attempting to depart from said automatic translate systems, yet it appear so easy to copy paste for correct responds

Apr-16-14		Alien Math: Thanks to you, I will attempt less time with use of Google Translate, as your informations of language appear more simple compare to some the instructors keep attemping to claim, I will make mistakes, often in English, feel out of bounds as other said before, her still attempt to understand, even if confuse with the reasoning, are still try, If informations appear main goal same as with Java, might return to Google Translate for confirm, still worry

Apr-16-14		Alien Math: <This last, the passive form, is most likely the sense you have been using 'her' in, but it just isn't used that way in English.> This the part that confuse, sorry to note, confusion gathers from her viewing your respond of her

Apr-16-14		Alien Math: Going to get in trouble from our Tên, she knows enough about the rogoff page to scold us into oblivion :p it feels worth it, almost :x

Apr-16-14		Annie K.: <Hanh> Very good! Keep practicing, check with Google Translate but try to write on your own when you can. And come here with anything you want to ask. :) I have read some books translated from Chinese, I think that's where I learned that in some Oriental languages it's polite to refer to yourself in the third person (her), and I also know that in some European languages it's polite to use the third person when addressing a stranger or person of higher rank, so the idea wasn't completely new to me. I thought it might help you to explain that point directly. Oh, one more thing about 'them', it also has two functions just like 'her' - here are the two sets again, with 'They' added: Possessive: I -> my: I feed my cat he -> his: he feeds his cat she -> her: she feeds her cat they -> their: they feed their cat Passive: I -> me: I am here, talk to me he -> him: He is here, talk to him she -> her: She is here, talk to her They -> them: They are here, talk to them. There are many more forms, I just started with the ones that you found most confusing. :)

Apr-16-14		Annie K.: Heh, the Rogoff page. Try not to get upset about it... :D OK, don't worry about trying to figure out the way 'her' is used in literal translations from Vietnamese. For now, just don't use it for yourself, only in the two forms of 'she' that I explained. I have to go to sleep now, good night. :)

Apr-16-14		Alien Math: Take care and many thanks for your explains ^.^ until again and many thanks for express confidence in world outside of Google Translate!

Apr-17-14		Alien Math: All times before, self using Google Translate and SayHi Translate any times encounter English, able understand many parts of English sentences, still find many herds of words not able understand, anywhen from 2/3 to 1/5 words her not see/translate before, appears as frustrate moments, not understand how nhi or ten find time to learn the English

Apr-18-14		Annie K.: <Hanh> they probably enjoy learning the language more. :) But it would be good for you to take some more time to practice it too, for greater independence at least. As it is, it's really amazing how well you get around the net even with limited English understanding!

Apr-18-14		Annie K.: OK, I have no idea why Black did anything, and the situation for White is not much better, but this was fun. ;p [Event "Rated game"] [Site "http://lichess.org/B39ssIkx"] [Date "2014.04.18"] [White "AnnieK"] [Black "NN"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "1835"] [BlackElo "1684"] [PlyCount "73"] [Variant "wild/fr"] [FEN "bbnrqnkr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/BBNRQNKR w KQkq - 0 1"] [SetUp "1"] click for larger view 1. b3 d5 2. Ne3 d4 3. Nf5 e5 4. c4 Nd6 5. e4 Ne6 6. Nd3 f6 7. c5 Nxf5 8. exf5 Ng5 9. h4 Nf7 10. Qe4 c6 11. b4 a6 12. a3 Qd7 13. Ba2 Kf8 14. Be6 Qe7 15. O-O-O Bc7 16. Bb2 b6 17. Kb1 b5 18. g4 a5 19. Rhg1 h6 20. Rg3 Bb7 21. Rh1 Rhg8 22. Kc2 Rdb8 23. Rhg1 Rgh8 24. Re1 Nd8 25. Ba2 Qd7 26. Kb1 Bc8 27. Rgg1 Nb7 28. f4 axb4 29. axb4 Rba8 30. Bb3 Qd8 31. fxe5 fxe5 32. Nxe5 Bxe5 33. Qxe5 Bd7 34. Bxd4 Rh7 35. Rgf1 Qxh4 36. f6 Re8 37. fxg7# 1-0 click for larger view

Apr-18-14		Domdaniel: <Alien Math> Annie's advice on English is very good. I see that you said "I will make mistakes" -- this use of 'I' is excellent ... and, in time, you will learn not to make mistakes. Good luck!

Apr-19-14		Alien Math: <Domdaniel> Thanks offered, have a thought today and ask nhi thanh and ten also others, they think with english when talks or typing chat modes appear, are same for <Annie K.> wonders?

Apr-19-14		Annie K.: <Hanh> Yes, I think in English much of the time, but I have been using it and reading in it for many years. :) When I am not online, I also think in Hungarian some of the time. However, I almost never think in Hebrew - and I only realized that when I noticed that I remembered conversations that must have taken place in Hebrew, in either English or Hungarian. I must have been thinking in those languages and "translating" to Hebrew and back at the time. I also speak a little more slowly in Hebrew, and of course that is the reason, the translation takes time. I know the language just as well as I do the other two, but I am not comfortable with it.

Apr-19-14		SwitchingQuylthulg: You don't like it. You wish everyone in Israel had the sense to speak Hungarian :) Poor NN... just when he finally develops a piece he gets mated. Chess can be such a hard game.

Apr-19-14		Annie K.: <Switch> Indeed! All of the above. ;)

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