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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-02-15		kingscrusher: Happy new year Annie :)

Jan-02-15		Annie K.: Backatcha! :) Heh, I've played these miniatures at much longer time controls too... but they are more fun in bullet: [Site "http://lichess.org/F8KX3K05"] [Date "2015.01.02"] [White "AnnieK"] [Black "NN"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "1596"] [BlackElo "1349"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "60+2"] [ECO "B50"] [Opening "Sicilian Defense, Modern Variations"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Qe2 e6 5. c3 a6 6. d4 b5 7. Bb3 c4 8. Bc2 Nc6 9. O-O Be7 10. Rd1 O-O 11. e5 Nd7 12. exd6 Bxd6 13. Qe4 Bb7 14. Qxh7# 1-0

Jan-02-15		Annie K.: Bullet 960, whee! :D [Site "http://lichess.org/QAEIUnuW"] [Date "2015.01.02"] [White "AnnieK"] [Black "NN"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "1820"] [BlackElo "1872"] [Variant "Chess960"] [TimeControl "120+1"] [FEN "rqbnkbrn/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RQBNKBRN w KQkq - 0 1"] [SetUp "1"] click for larger view 1. c4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. e3 e6 4. Bd3 f6 5. Ng3 Nhf7 6. O-O O-O 7. b3 d6 8. Bb2 c6 9. Qc2 d5 10. Nc3 Re8 11. Rad1 b6 12. Nce2 Nb7 13. cxd5 cxd5 14. Qd2 Nbd6 15. Ba3 Bd7 16. e4 dxe4 17. Nxe4 Qc7 18. Nxd6 Nxd6 19. Rc1 Qb8 20. Qf4 Nf5 21. Qg4 Rc8 22. Be4 Rxc1 23. Rxc1 Bb5 24. Bxa8 Bxe2 25. Qxe2 Qxa8 26. Qxe6+ Kh8 27. Rc8+ Qxc8 28. Qxc8+ (Black resigns) 1-0

Jan-03-15		Thanh Phan: Happy New Year Annie K.! we were out of town lol

Jan-03-15		Annie K.: Thanks, no hurry. ;)

Jan-03-15		Alien Math: Happy New Year!

Jan-03-15		Penguincw: Good job running the preseason in the ChessBookie Game! I wish you the best of luck running the upcoming leg. It's going to be a looong 3 months. :)

Jan-04-15		Abdel Irada: You're right; I was commenting on a <Caissars> nomination rather than making one of my own. If you like, I will ask Daniel to delete the offending post. I'm curious, though: Have you seen <tpstar>'s "The Black Man's Prayer"? Taken in conjunction with the post <OCF> nominated, it shows a pretty clear theme, and I hope members will take cognizance of that theme before casting their votes for <Best Post>. Don't get me wrong. I don't dislike <tpstar>; he is smart, a good writer and often funny. But he is also a virulent racist, and I don't think that is a minor detail. ∞

Jan-04-15		Annie K.: <Abdel> no need to delete, as far as I'm concerned. :) Yes, I have seen the post. But your question calls for comment on 3 different levels. (1) Politically - there is racism, which is a reprehensible bigotry. Then there is anti-racism, which is great. But then comes the next stage, when a given anti-racist (or anti-some other kind of bigotry) pendulum swings too far, and turns into reverse racism: it's no longer equality and fairness that are upheld, but the - frankly equally racist as the original bigotry - credo that the formerly discriminated-against group can now do no wrong, and may not be criticized in any way, no matter what. You may be familiar with the same kind of reverse racism from being accused of antisemitism whenever you dare to let out a critical peep WRT any actions of the Israeli government. ;) When these pendulums start swinging, they unfortunately almost always end up swinging too far in the other direction, at least for a time. And during that time, some people getting annoyed with the resulting reverse-racist attitudes is not, IMO, necessarily racism. Is <tpstar> one of these people? Or a racist? Or maybe just a humorist, who likes to portray the zeitgeist? :) (2) Personally - he is a friend of mine. So are you. And so is Mark, btw. Each and every one of you is always welcome here. But please leave your squabbles with each other at the door. (3) Chessgames.com site considerations - when the admins were considering "cleaning up" the Rogoff page and returning it to being a regular player page, I advised leaving it be. I support it, because it both answers and contains a need. Some people love debating. I know the rules, I know the game. ;) It's fun. Personally, I have tired of it years ago, and have come to see it as a rather futile way of spending time, so I don't engage in it anymore. But I understand you. :) However, this is a chess site - that is its main purpose, and not everybody here likes "argumentativeness", or understands the special principles of formal debate (Why is ad hominem a fallacy? How come when the other guy tells me "your post is stupid" it's not considered a personal attack, but when I call him an idiot, I get told off? Etc.... heh) and guess what, they have a right not to know or like debate; <they> didn't come to a debate site, <you> came to a chess site. So I not only support the Rogoff page because I understand your need for it, I also support it because, and on the condition that, it <contains> your need for debate. In other words, what happens on the Rogoff page should stay on the Rogoff page. Please do not disseminate your issues, feuds, and animosities from there to the rest of the site. Drop by here any time, though. :)

Jan-04-15		hms123: <Annie> I wanted to "like" your post to <Abdel> But I couldn't, then I decided I should "love" your post. So I just did.

Jan-04-15		Annie K.: <hms> well, I can't think of any objections at the moment! :)

Jan-05-15		visayanbraindoctor: Happy new year to you too <Annie>. <twinlark> gave me this link about some science updates in 2014. http://rt.com/news/216531-science-r... In this article are several more links to several science articles, from stem cells to genetic engineering, to high tech Pavlovian condition of mice, to uterus and heart transplants, to the origin of water and life on Earth. Most of the articles have the usual elements of media hype so you have to take some of the pronouncements with a grain of salt (especially the one on Egyptian mummies and King Tut), but it does account for some of the high profile topics of science in 2014.

Jan-05-15		visayanbraindoctor: One of the articles describes genetic engineering in monkeys. Such experiments always catches our attention because monkeys and humans share a primate physiology, anatomy, and genetics, and implies the possibility of genetic engineering in humans, which is a taboo topic. There also have been more studies on how life and water got into Earth. The asteroid bombardment that made the moon craters stopped about 3.8 billion years ago, yet there are already possible signs of life as early as 3.7 billion years ago, and the first fossilized microbes date back about 3.5 billion years ago. How did life start so early after a massive asteroid bombardment that must have partially melted a large part of the Earth's crust? Related to this is how water, which is necessary for life, got into Earth. Planets and asteroids from the inner asteroid belt inwards are rocky and dry, not much water. But not Earth, whose surface is 70% water. A medical development surprised me. A woman who was born without a uterus gave birth to a healthy baby from a donated uterus that came from a post menopausal woman. I did not think that is possible, but they did it.

Jan-06-15		Annie K.: Thanks, Doc! Hope to catch up with some of that during the weekend. :)

Jan-12-15		Domdaniel: <Annie> Your post to Abdel about racism, anti-Semitism, and argumentativeness is utterly, utterly brilliant. Too damn smart for words, even. When I was writing film/theatre reviews and critiques, my editor used to warn me (from a legal POV) not to say that somebody wasn't doing their job properly. I thought this put the whole idea of reviewing in question - how can you criticize somebody's work without implying that they're not very good at art/film/whatever? But you're right about that too. It is a futile way of spending time, even when you get paid for it. Pendulums? Swings and roundabouts...

Jan-13-15		Annie K.: Thanks. :) You have probably learned this by now, but as long as you only criticize the result, the implied assumption is not necessarily that of overall incompetence by the person responsible. They could have had personal problems, lack of time, lack of health, lack of budget, just plain bad luck, etc. - lack of talent and competence is only one option, and not a clear-cut enough implication to be legally problematic. Writing articles, that people appear to want to read, for a living is not, in any case, nearly as futile as arguing politics on a chess site. ;)

Jan-15-15		visayanbraindoctor: http://www.scientificamerican.com/p... 'Historic Abundance of Blue Whales Returns in California' Good news for whale watchers. It's probable that the blue whale population in the Pacific west coast of America has recovered and has now reached the ecosystem's carrying capacity. Means that what is now limiting the whale population from expanding is the abundance of its food and other natural constraints, same situation before the historical whale hunts that decimated them.

Jan-17-15		Annie K.: Great news, thanks Doc! :) OK, I decided it was time to do something about those disgraceful FIDE ratings... this just in: [Event "Tournament 26062094"] [Site "FIDE online arena"] [Date "2015.01.17"] [Round "2"] [White "NN"] [Black "AnnieK"] [Result "0-1"] [Termination "checkmate"] [Mode "ICS"] [ECO "C64"] [WhiteElo "2128"] [BlackElo "1650"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Bc5 4. c3 a6 5. Ba4 d6 6. d4 exd4 7. cxd4 Ba7 8. d5 b5 9. Bc2 Ne5 10. Nxe5 dxe5 11. O-O Nf6 12. Bg5 O-O 13. Kh1 Qd6 14. f4 Bg4 15. Qe1 Nh5 16. f5 Nf4 17. Qh4 Be2 18. Re1 Bd3 19. Bb3 Bxb1 20. Raxb1 Nd3 21. Rf1 Qb4 22. f6 Qd4 23. Bh6 Nf2+ 24. Rxf2 Qxf2 25. Bxg7 Qxh4 26. Bc2 Rfd8 27. Rf1 h6 28. g3 Qh3 29. Rf3 Rd6 30. Bd3 Qg4 31. Be2 Qxe4 32. Bd1 Qe1+ 33. Kg2 Qxd1 34. Rf5 Qxd5+ 35. Kh3 Qe6 36. g4 Rd3+ 37. Kh4 Bf2+ 38. Rxf2 Qc4 39. Rf5 Qe4 40. Rh5 Qe1# 0-1

Jan-19-15		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> Fun game. White kept trying to be too cute :) Why grabbing pawns in the opening doesn't magically become a good idea just because the queens are off... [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2015.01.20"] [Round "?"] [White "NN"] [Black "Quylthulg"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1789"] [BlackElo "1910"] [ECO "B00"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. e4 Nc6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 Qxd5 4. Nf3 e5 5. dxe5 Qxd1+ 6. Kxd1 Bg4 7. Bf4 O-O-O+ 8. Ke1 Nge7 9. c3 Ng6 10. Bg3 Bc5 11. Nbd2 Rhe8 12. Be2 Ncxe5 13. Nxe5 Nxe5 14. Bxe5 Rxe5 15. f3 Bf5 16. Nc4 Re7 17. Rd1 Rde8 18. Rd2 b5 19. b4 Bd3 20. bxc5 Bxc4 {White resigns} 0-1

Jan-19-15		Annie K.: Very nice crush! :) With this game I left behind the acutely embarrassing 1400's rapid rating, in favor of the slightly less acutely embarrassing 1500's at FIDE... although it's really cheating to claim this game has anything to do with rapid (15 minutes and above) chess; my opponent used about 5 minutes, and I used less than 3, trying hard to play slowly. :p [Site "FIDE online arena"] [Date "2015.01.20"] [White "AnnieK"] [Black "NN"] [Result "1-0"] [Termination "resign"] [Mode "ICS"] [ECO "B12"] [WhiteElo "1494"] [BlackElo "1556"] [TimeControl "900"] [Time "02:54:20"] 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d6 3. f4 e5 4. Nf3 exf4 5. Bxf4 Bg4 6. Be2 Nf6 7. Nbd2 Qb6 8. Nc4 Qc7 9. Qd3 Nbd7 10. O-O Be7 11. e5 dxe5 12. Nfxe5 Bxe2 13. Qxe2 O-O 14. Ng6 Qd8 15. Nxf8 Bxf8 16. c3 Nd5 17. Bd2 Be7 18. Rae1 Bf6 19. Qg4 Kh8 20. Nd6 Qf8 21. Qxd7 Rd8 22. Nxf7+ 1-0

Jan-24-15		Annie K.: Moar Bullet Iz Fun: [Site "http://lichess.org/QFA2m7xj"] [Date "2015.01.24"] [White "NN"] [Black "AnnieK"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1622"] [BlackElo "1580"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "60+3"] [ECO "C64"] [Opening "Spanish Game, Classical Variation, Central Variation"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Bc5 4. c3 a6 5. Bxc6 dxc6 6. d4 exd4 7. cxd4 Ba7 8. O-O Ne7 9. h3 O-O 10. Bg5 Qd6 11. Bxe7 Qxe7 12. Re1 Qf6 13. Nc3 Bd7 14. e5 Qg6 15. d5 Bxh3 16. Nh4 Qg3 17. Qf3 Qxh4 18. gxh3 cxd5 19. Nxd5 c6 20. Re4 Bxf2+ 21. Kg2 Qg5+ 22. Kxf2 cxd5 23. Ree1 Rae8 24. Qxd5 Qf5+ 25. Kg2 Re6 26. Rad1 Rg6+ 27. Kh2 Qf2+ 28. Kh1 Rh6 29. Qg2 Qf5 30. Rd5 Rxh3+ 31. Kg1 Rh6 32. Rf1 Qe6 33. Qf3 Qg6+ 34. Kf2 Rh5 35. Rg1 Qc2+ 36. Qe2 Rh2+ 37. Rg2 Rxg2+ 38. Kxg2 Qxe2+ (White resigns) 0-1

Jan-24-15		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Moar Bullet Iz Fun> No wonder your FIDE bullet rating is better than your other ratings :) (Are the various FIDE online ratings roughly comparable, or are some of them clearly more inflated or deflated than others?) [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2015.01.24"] [Round "?"] [White "Quylthulg"] [Black "NN"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "1969"] [BlackElo "1905"] [ECO "A00"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. d3 f5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. g3 g6 4. Bg2 Bg7 5. O-O O-O 6. c4 d6 7. Nc3 e5 8. h4 Nh5 9. Bg5 Qe8 10. Nd5 Na6 11. b4 Qf7 12. b5 h6 13. bxa6 hxg5 14. Nxg5 Qd7 15. Rb1 c6 16. Ne6 cxd5 17. Bxd5 Nf6 18. Nc5+ Nxd5 19. Nxd7 Nc3 20. Qc2 Nxb1 21. Nxf8 Na3 22. Qb3 bxa6 23. Nxg6 Kh7 24. h5 {Black resigns} 1-0

Jan-24-15		Annie K.: <Switch> nice one. :) I can't tell about the FIDE ratings yet. Haven't been around long enough - they seem stable across the time controls, except for an "unmonitored rating" (games against guests) which seems to be higher - mine is currently somewhere over 1800. But I haven't seen anything like the huge discrepancy that exists in FICS between the blitz and the standard pools.

Jan-26-15		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> Does Tradewise Gibraltar: Epic Game? refer to all games in all rounds of the Masters tournament, or only round 1? Nothing about the wording suggests it's limited to round 1, but the scheduled settlement date is January 27.

Jan-26-15		Annie K.: <Switch> whole tournament - thanks, I'll fix the settlement date when I get to a proper computer. :)

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