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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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Jul-26-14		eternaloptimist: Happy birthday Annie! I hope u have a great day! By the way what have u got planned for today?

Jul-26-14		hms123: <Annie> I was going to put off birthday wishes but didn't get around to it. Happy Birthday!

Jul-26-14		Annie K.: Thanks! :) Party yesterday (family), party tomorrow (colleagues) - today I treated myself to lots of chess, and a brand new official FIDE member number at http://www.arena.myfide.net. =)

Jul-27-14		Thanh Phan: Happy Birthday! Congrats at a new FIDE number also :) wish you luck

Jul-27-14		Alien Math: Happy Birthday <Annie K.>! hope not late ~ also nice to see online FIDE

Jul-27-14		Annie K.: Thanks, <Thanh> and <Hanh>. Looking interesting so far. :)

Jul-27-14		visayanbraindoctor: Happy birthday Annie.

Jul-27-14		visayanbraindoctor: http://www.chicagotribune.com/healt... Medical news that caught my eye. Without antibiotics and modern understanding of pathogens, and given the crowded situation in present-day human cities, historically devastating epidemics will recur.

Jul-28-14		shivasuri4: The catch for the online ratings is that players must pay 25 euros for a year's membership.

Jul-28-14		eternaloptimist: <Annie K.> u r welcome! I'm glad your birthday went well for u. That's cool that u have your own FIDE member #. Your future looks so bright that u r going to have to wear sunglasses all day long! :D

Jul-28-14		Annie K.: I'll let Nakamura wear the sunglasses for me. ;p <shiva> well, yes, but that's fair enough for official ratings - my local federation charges even more for their annual fee. :) However, there is a catch - the small print sez that there are plans to eventually merge these "online ratings" with their OTB time-control equivalents (which would be the point, IMO, that would really make them fully "official")... however they note that the FIDE board hadn't actually ratified these plans yet. So FIDE is now earning a ton of quick cash from people signing on for their "online ratings", but the question of the degree of legitimacy these ratings will eventually be given is actually not settled yet. And FIDE doesn't exactly have a great reputation for following "plans" through. Still, I suppose 25€ is a reasonable gamble. ;s <VBD> thanks! :) Yeah, always a danger, especially as the effectiveness of our current antibiotics is decreasing. At least we do have a "modern understanding of pathogens" - even locally, as long as the doctors fighting in the front line against an outbreak remember to think of taking care of themselves first.

Jul-29-14		shivasuri4: There might be major protests, not that that would necessarily mean much to FIDE, if the ratings aren't suitably merged.

Jul-29-14		Annie K.: Heh... I doubt Kirsan would care much, as long as the aliens don't mind. ;p

Jul-30-14		eternaloptimist: <Annie K.: I'll let Nakamura wear the sunglasses for me. ;p > LOL! I actually saw Naka at a tourney in Denver, CO back in 2003 that I mentioned in my profile. During the tourney I checked out his games a few times to see how he was doing in them. The 1st instance(to my knowledge)of someone wearing sunglasses during a game in a tourney was Benko when he played Tal in this game.: Tal vs Benko, 1959

Aug-01-14		visayanbraindoctor: <Ebola kills senior doctor at Liberia's largest hospital> http://www.usnews.com/news/world/ar... <Ebola Kills Two Health Workers> http://article.wn.com/view/2014/04/... A professional hazard. Doctors keep on getting pricked by needles and sliced by scalpels, and health workers are always getting exposed to all kinds of diseases. But working in an area with a fatal incurable communicable virus must be much more scary.

Aug-01-14		Annie K.: <VBD> yes, that's exactly the practice and scenario that worries me too - the doctors who know most about a new disease are usually right in its path. If/when something really aggressive breaks out, it should be kept in mind that the general and so far unaffected local populace (not to mention the rest of the world) need someone knowledgeable to advise them and keep them safe, and that should be a very high priority as well.

Aug-03-14		visayanbraindoctor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wz... Just saw your link. Thanks, I will watch it when I am free.

Aug-07-14		Annie K.: <VBD> No hurry! Let me know what you think of it when you get around to it. :) <Growing Puns> Hmm, I see I'm already on 5 published puns this year - maybe time for an Official Explanation. ;p Previously, I would most often (pretty rarely, that is) think of a pun I consider funny, and go looking for a matching game - trying to pick the best game I can use, of course, but the pun's the thing. This year, however, I've started a new trend: every now and then, when I remember to, I look out for comments in the kibitzing along the lines of "wow, this game really needs a pun", "this should really be made GotD sometime", etc. Then I look at the game in question, and try to come up with anything serviceable - the punnier the better, of course, but the main point is really just to help bring deserving games to the light of GotD public attention. ;)

Aug-08-14		Thanh Phan: <Annie K.> I hope things are well with you and yours on your side of the pond, read all sorts of news about the middle east here, and pray for my friends wherever they may be

Aug-08-14		Annie K.: <Thanh: <read all sorts of news>> There's your problem, right there. ;)

Aug-09-14		Annie K.: Especially for <Switch>, who likes this kind of thing... ;) [Site "http://lichess.org/cZGhYstC"] [Date "2014.08.09"] [White "AnnieK"] [Black "NN"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2004"] [BlackElo "1874"] [PlyCount "53"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "480+0"] [ECO "B10"] [Opening "Caro-Kann Defense, General"] 1. e4 c6 2. d4 b5 3. f4 Ba6 4. b4 e6 5. a3 h6 6. Nf3 Bb7 7. Bd3 a5 8. Bb2 axb4 9. axb4 Bxb4+ 10. c3 Rxa1 11. Bxa1 Be7 12. O-O Nf6 13. e5 Nd5 14. f5 Ne3 15. Qe2 Nxf1 16. Qxf1 exf5 17. Bxf5 c5 18. Nbd2 c4 19. Bb2 g6 20. Bc2 Bg5 21. Ne4 Bxe4 22. Bxe4 Nc6 23. Bd5 Ne7 24. Nxg5 Nf5 25. Nxf7 Ne3 26. Nd6+ Ke7 27. Qf7# 1-0

Aug-09-14		SwitchingQuylthulg: I like your rating :) But what's with you losing more and more chessbucks every round? I hope you haven't started doing anything weird like betting exclusively on longshots.

Aug-09-14		Annie K.: Nah, never! :) Just the "hasty, unconsidered, and uninformed" strategy... ;s

Aug-18-14		SwitchingQuylthulg: Blitz is still fun, and NN still likes gobbling pawns :) [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2014.08.18"] [Round "?"] [White "Quylthulg"] [Black "NN"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2023"] [BlackElo "1870"] [ECO "A41"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. d4 d6 2. Nf3 c6 3. c4 Bg4 4. Nc3 g6 5. Bf4 Bg7 6. e3 Bxf3 7. Qxf3 Nd7 8. Bd3 Qb6 9. O-O Qxb2 10. Rfc1 Qb6 11. c5 dxc5 12. Rab1 Qa5 13. Rxb7 cxd4 14. Qxc6 Rd8 15. Bc7 Qa3 16. Nb5 Qxd3 17. Bxd8 Nf6 18. Bxe7 Kxe7 19. Qd6+ Ke8 20. Rc8# {Black checkmated} 1-0

Aug-18-14		Annie K.: <Switch> not so much fun for me these days, it's the height of summer here and my brain has melted, which doesn't seem to be very good for my chess. This doesn't stop me from playing, but I'll have some rating points to regain later... :s Beautiful game, a real little work of art! But, um, 1.d4, are you well? ;)

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