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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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Feb-25-15		WannaBe: <Annie K.> No problem, just credit my account with 60,000 ChessBookie Bucks!

Feb-25-15		Annie K.: I'd love to, but I think the Loanshark doesn't quite approve... ;s

Feb-28-15		WannaBe: I see, the 2 new pronounciations are uploaded, I'm gonna tell my co-worker first thing Monday. =))

Feb-28-15		Annie K.: I sent you both an email about it, with the links! :)

Mar-01-15		Pirandus: Üdvözletemet küldöm március 1 alkalmából. Egy magyar-finn kérdésem volna. Igaz-e, hogy Westerinen finn GM több évig 1970-es évek elején Budapesten élt, mivel apja itt diplomata volt? A chessgames adattárában nincs feltûnõen sok magyar ellenfele. - Ha igaz, én a budai Városmajorban sokszor láttam játszani amatõrök ellen.

Mar-01-15		Annie K.: <Pirandus> Üdvözlet vissza! :) Ha jól értettem, nem biztos benne hogy GM Westerinent látta? Persze amatőr játszmák nemigen fognak megjelenni itt, de ha tényleg Magyarországon élt, valószínüleg kellene legyenek "hivatalos" játszmái is ebből az időszakból. Én erről nem tudok, de megpróbálhatom megkérdezni Finnországi barátomot... :) <Switch> we have a question here, asking if it's true that GM Westerinen spent several years in Hungary in the early seventies, because his diplomat father was assigned there? Would you happen to know anything about it, by any chance? ;)

Mar-02-15		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> I won't pretend to be an expert on Finnish chess history, but I've never heard of that, and a quick Google search in Finnish also revealed nothing. His father was a school teacher, so that part doesn't check out; my guess would be that it wasn't him.

Mar-02-15		Annie K.: Thanks, <Switch>! I wonder if it might have been some other Westerinen - is that a very rare name, or would a namesake be plausible? Our questioner also points out that he doesn't see many games by Westerinen against Hungarian opponents in the database here. And he doesn't have a page in the Hungarian Wikipedia at all, which may also be considered indicative - presumably they would have bothered to create an entry for a strong player who once lived there. BTW, I just remembered that the time period in question may have been the early sixties rather than the early seventies - I'm finding it a bit hard to keep in mind the Hungarian convention that they name decades by the <next>, rather than the <preceding>, round number. Or at least used to - I just looked at the Hungarian Wikipedia entry for "the seventies" and I see they name actual seventies dates, so I guess they are now trying to match the international convention... which makes things even more confusing. :s

Mar-02-15		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie K.: Thanks, <Switch>! I wonder if it might have been some other Westerinen - is that a very rare name, or would a namesake be plausible?> Westerinen/Vesterinen is not a particularly common name, but also not exceedingly rare; indeed, my Google searches turned up references to other people called Heikki Westerinen. Until the mid-60s Westerinen the chess player was a student in Finland, so that's an even less likely time period. As a sidenote, I found a 1992 article in which Westerinen listed the languages he spoke: Finnish, English, Swedish, German, Estonian and Norwegian; he also noted there were other languages, "like Spanish and Dutch", which he knew a bit but wasn't really fluent in. No mention of Hungarian, and that list doesn't sound like someone who'd live in a country for several years without learning the local language.

Mar-02-15		Annie K.: <Until the mid-60s Westerinen the chess player was a student in Finland, so that's an even less likely time period.> That would fit in with the detail that he moved there because of his father's assignment, on the other hand; he would have been much more likely to do so if he was still underage. But I agree with you that the lack of Hungarian in that language list, along with all the other notable lacks, is conclusive; Hungarian is a difficult language, but not that difficult, especially for a Finn, and even more so for a Finn who is otherwise good at languages. Well, that concludes our investigations, I think. ;)

Mar-03-15		Annie K.: <Pirandus> nem vagyunk ugyan sakktörténelemszakértők, de a Finn barátom körülnézett az Interneten, és az információ amit talált szerintünk arra mutat hogy nem GM Westerinen volt az aki Magyarországon élt. Elsősorban, sehol nincs említés ilyesmiről. Továbbá, barátom megtudta hogy GM Westerinen apja tanár volt és nem diplomata. Ezenkívül pedig talált egy 1992-es cikket, amelyben GM Westerinen felsorolja a nyelveket amelyeket ismer: folyékonyan beszél finnül, angolul, svédül, németül, észtül és norvégül. Ezenkívül említi hogy tud egy keveset még néhány nyelven, “mint például spanyolul és hollandul”; tehát magyarról nem mond semmit. Mi nem tartjuk valószínűnek hogy valaki, akinek ilyen jó nyelvtehetsége van, nem tanult volna meg elég jól magyarul ha néhány évig Magyarországon élt volna. A Heikki Westerinen név barátom szerint nem gyakori, de nem is nagyon ritka; lehetséges hogy egy másik ugyanilyen nevű Finn látogató élt Budapesten.

Mar-05-15		Pirandus: Annie K: Köszönöm a kutatást. Thanks for everybody for the search. Merci pour les recherches. "Le mystere Westerinen" reste a résoudre...

Mar-06-15		Alien Math: Found an interesting article about Language and Color and how they realized blue was missing In "The Odyssey," Homer famously describes the "wine-dark sea." But why "wine-dark" and not deep blue or green? http://www.businessinsider.com/what...

Mar-06-15		Annie K.: <Hanh> thanks very much, that's highly interesting! I have read before that there are tribes in various remote places that have very different ideas as to the color spectrum from ours - a completely different opinion of what "natural" order is, i.e., 'which color goes next to which'... I think the remark about the Egyptians may be of key importance: <The only ancient culture to develop a word for blue was the Egyptians — and as it happens, they were also the only culture that had a way to produce a blue dye.> Since they could use it, they had a practical reason to name it. After all, most of us know what color(s) the sky is, lakes, certain flowers... and if necessary, blue shades can be described in terms of something similar, even without a generic term for blue. 'Her eyes were the color of a deep mountain lake, and her brother had eyes the color of the sky on a stormy winter afternoon'. See? ;) However, that test about spotting the "odd square out" was surprising, both ways. And another powerful testament to the difficulty of the mind with processing the unexpected and unfamiliar. Practicality, familiarity, training, focus, and attention are definitely the factors at play. And I am also reminded of the old occult idea that giving something a name bestows power over it. There is a grain of truth here. :)

Mar-06-15		Alien Math: <Annie K.> I thought it was interesting to learn how the Himba tribe in Namibia could distinguish between several greens, until my brothers told of their hunting trips with the Alaskan Natives during winter, They could name several different snow and ice, both structures and hues and changed course according to the name of the snow, and were able to find still ptarmigan and rabbits which had white fur at the time, well before the brothers could find them even after being pointed in the right direction

Mar-07-15		Annie K.: <Pirandus> szívesen látom itt máskor is. :) <Hanh> yes, to most of us various kinds or snow are either just a pretty sight or a minor inconvenience, but for people living off the land, incentive (like not getting stuck in difficult to travel through snow, and finding dinner) works wonders for learning to notice nuances. ;) I suppose the Himba people might see blue as just a shade of green minus the usual yellow (=sunlit?) tint, just as we might consider the 'different green' (I believe it had a bit more yellow in it) square as "same as the others, just a little more sunlit". Very edifying. :) I suppose people with no word for purple would consider it either 'red with a bluish tint' (like something red seen through water), or 'blue with a reddish tint' (like something blue seen in the reddish light of a sunset), and simply not consider that it should count as a whole separate color.

Mar-08-15		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie K.: I suppose people with no word for purple would consider it either 'red with a bluish tint' (like something red seen through water), or 'blue with a reddish tint' (like something blue seen in the reddish light of a sunset), and simply not consider that it should count as a whole separate color.> On the other hand, we <do> have a word for turquoise, and still tend to consider it either greenish-blue or (less commonly) blueish-green.

Mar-08-15		Annie K.: :) Yeah, but we then also have words for a bunch of minor shades, like "mauve", "chartreuse", "maroon", "coral" and such, and probably the only people actually familiar with them are designers (fashion, interior, and maybe website) - they are certainly not greatly recognized by or important* to the general populace. So we are also used to thinking that not every hue that has a name is actually a separate color. 'Important' generally has to do with whether you get dinner or not, which in this case is usually only applicable if your wife asks you to pick up a lavender dress for her, and you arrive with an amethyst dress instead. But I think you can still order a pizza! ;s

Mar-08-15		SwitchingQuylthulg: It shows how arbitrary our color scheme is, though. On what grounds do people consider purple more of a separate color than turquoise? Because... well, they do. It's cultural; in our memes. Beyond that, what <is> purple? If purple is a separate color and not the same color as blue or red, is it the same color as lilac and violet? My intuitive answer would be "yes"... but undoubtedly that's partly because Finnish doesn't distinguish purple from violet. Someone speaking a language that uses the same word for blue and green might perhaps think the same way of that pairing. But the most bizarre thing is that we have no word for our own skin color... it's not exactly white, is it?

Mar-08-15		SwitchingQuylthulg: The perils of piece activity: [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2015.03.08"] [Round "?"] [White "NN"] [Black "Quylthulg"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1873E"] [BlackElo "2014"] [ECO "B00"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. e4 Nc6 2. Nf3 g6 3. d4 Bg7 4. c3 d5 5. e5 Bf5 6. Bd3 e6 7. O-O Nce7 8. Na3 c6 9. Nc2 h5 10. Bg5 Qb6 11. b4 Nh6 12. Ne3 Bxd3 13. Qxd3 a6 14. a4 Nhf5 15. Nh4 Nxh4 16. Bxh4 Nf5 17. Nxf5 gxf5 18. a5 Qb5 19. Qe3 Bh6 20. Bg5 Bxg5 21. Qxg5 Kd7 22. Qf6 Rh7 23. Rae1 Rg8 24. Re3 h4 25. Rh3 Rg6 26. Rxh4 Rxf6 27. Rxh7 Rg6 28. Rxf7+ Ke8 29. Rh7 f4 30. Rh4 Qd3 31. Rxf4 Qxc3 32. g3 Qxb4 33. Rc1 Qxa5 {White forfeits on time} 0-1

Mar-08-15		OhioChessFan: <'Her eyes were the color of a deep mountain lake, and her brother had eyes the color of the sky on a stormy winter afternoon'. See? ;) > Song of Solomon 7:4 Your neck is like an ivory tower, Your eyes like the pools in Heshbon By the gate of Bath Rabbim.

Mar-09-15		visayanbraindoctor: Some interesting biological articles caught my eye while surfing through the internet. http://www.chinatopix.com/articles/... Menopausal Female Killer Whales Become Leaders of their Family Pods Researchers say the occurrence of menopause in animals is rare and apart from humans, the only species to exhaust their reproductive cycles are orcas and short-finned pilot whales. These menopausal orcas are observed to act as some sort of sage-like consultancy and direct their groups or pods to where food can be found when fish is hard to come by. According to Darren Croft from the University of Exeter in the U.K., this marks the first study to show pre-menopausal orca females act as repositories of essential knowledge and vital survival information. http://edition.cnn.com/2015/02/27/a... Scan reveals 1,000-year-old mummified monk hidden in statue Wow! https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpres... The above is another true-to-life version of 'Aliens'. So it seems that amphipod crustaceans in the sea can act the same way that parasitic wasps can act on land.

Mar-09-15		SwitchingQuylthulg: Nothing like an active king :) [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2015.03.09"] [Round "?"] [White "Quylthulg"] [Black "NN"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2032"] [BlackElo "1854"] [ECO "A04"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. Nf3 c5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 d5 4. O-O Nc6 5. d4 e6 6. c3 cxd4 7. cxd4 Bd6 8. Nc3 O-O 9. Bd2 Bd7 10. Rc1 Rc8 11. a3 a6 12. Na4 b5 13. Nc5 Nxd4 14. Nxa6 Nxf3+ 15. Bxf3 Qe7 16. Bb4 Rxc1 17. Qxc1 Rc8 18. Qd2 g6 19. Rc1 Rc4 20. b3 Bxb4 21. Nxb4 Ne4 22. Bxe4 Rxe4 23. f3 Re5 24. Kf2 Qd6 25. Qd4 Rh5 26. h4 h6 27. Nd3 g5 28. b4 gxh4 29. g4 Qh2+ 30. Ke3 e5 31. Qb6 d4+ 32. Ke4 f5+ 33. Kd5 e4 34. Qd8+ Kf7 35. Qxd7+ Kf8 36. Rc8# {Black checkmated} 1-0

Mar-10-15		visayanbraindoctor: Regarding the salps mentioned in https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpres... Salps and other tunicates fascinate me. They exhibit 1. a hollow central nervous system that develops as an inpouching of the dorsal ectoderm, exactly the same as humans. In fact they are classified as Chordates, same as us, characterized by a hollow CNS that develops from the inpouching of dorsal ectoderm, 2. notochord- in vertebrates our nucleus pulposus in between our vertebral bones, 3. pharyngeal slits (the holes at the side of a fish's throat that allow it to 'breath' water) and pouches- which we had as fetuses, and as adults develop into the Eustachian tube that connects our ear to our mouth, and contributes to our middle ear and parathyroid glands, 4. an endostyle- in mammals our thyroid gland, 5. and a post-anal tail- in humans and other mammals our coccyx. Salps and other tunicates show how evolution can incorporate the same five fundamental characteristics of the chordate body plan into the building of such a variety of creatures, from the jellyfish and cucumber like tunicates to human beings. The original chordates of the world had all of the above five characteristics, and so do all of their present-day descendants, salps or humans. Recently salps have gained the attention in the CO2 issue. http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=957... They seem to be the animal most efficient in sequestering carbon into the ocean bottom. Salps are also said to be the fastest growing and reproducing animals on Earth, and are in direct competition with the likewise abundant krill as the heaviest component of the southern ocean animal biomass. http://www.nature.com/nature/journa... Their main predator unfortunately for them seems to be their main competitor as well, the krill http://link.springer.com/article/10...

Mar-12-15		Alien Math: Think of a thought and translate towards english used to require less energy than construct a sentence in english, I wonder when the change happened, maybe I just have more endurance or having more english words to use for tools help with not needing to jigsaw puzzle a sentence together

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