User Profile: Annie K.

Members · Prefs · Laboratory · Collections · Openings · Endgames · Sacrifices · History · Search Kibitzing · Kibitzer's Café · Chessforums · Tournament Index · Players ·

Kibitzing

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! :)
---
<My City of Moscow skits:>
<<<<<<>>>>> Kramnik's Party -> City of Moscow (kibitz #752)
<<<<<<>>>>> Sochi 2008: An F-Files Production -> City of Moscow (kibitz #774)
---
<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
---
<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...
---
<<<<<<< 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 >>
<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>
^ 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
[what is this?]

   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.

indicates a reply to the comment.

Procrastinators' Club (planned)

< Earlier Kibitzing · PAGE 219 OF 274 · Later Kibitzing>
Mar-12-15		Annie K.: <Hanh> that's wonderful! If you are actually beginning to think in English, now you should improve much faster. :) It's been a busy week here, I'll catch up with everything tomorrow or so... ;s

Mar-12-15		Alien Math: I have to credit practice reading here, English as a Second language classes, Thanh for audio practice and feedback and various youtube songs that have both kara, việt and engsub type songs like https://youtu.be/VgC8sb0BvE8

Mar-14-15		Annie K.: <Hanh> very good. :) I mean to get back to the color spectrum discussion yet... ;s Meanwhile, a leisurely 3 0 game... ;) [Site "http://lichess.org/KuUsIf31"] [Date "2015.03.15"] [White "AnnieK"] [Black "NN"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "1748"] [BlackElo "1528"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "180+0"] [ECO "B30"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 e6 4. c3 Nf6 5. Qe2 Be7 6. d4 cxd4 7. cxd4 d6 8. O-O O-O 9. Rd1 Qc7 10. Bf4 e5 11. dxe5 dxe5 12. Bg3 Be6 13. Bb5 a6 14. Ba4 b5 15. Bc2 Rad8 16. Nc3 Ne8 17. Rdc1 Bf6 18. Nd5 Bxd5 19. exd5 Nd4 20. Nxd4 Qa7 21. Nc6 Qd7 22. Nxd8 Qxd8 23. Bxe5 Qxd5 24. Bxf6 Nxf6 25. Bb3 Qb7 26. h3 h6 27. Qe5 Re8 28. Qg3 Ne4 29. Qf4 Nf6 30. Rc7 Qe4 31. Bxf7+ Kh8 32. Qg3 Re5 33. Bd5 Qe1+ 34. Rxe1 Rxe1+ 35. Kh2 g5 36. Qc3 Rh1+ 37. Kxh1 1-0

Mar-17-15		Annie K.: I owe Emrald one - yet again - for this forced mate tactic... :) [Site "http://lichess.org/tbmsC92p"] [Date "2015.03.18"] [White "NN"] [Black "AnnieK"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1781"] [BlackElo "1726"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "300+0"] [ECO "C27"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Bc4 a6 4. f4 exf4 5. Nf3 h6 6. O-O d6 7. d4 g5 8. h4 Bg7 9. hxg5 hxg5 10. Nxg5 Qxg5 11. Bxf4 Qh4 12. Bxf7+ Kd8 13. Ne2 Bg4 14. c3 Nf6 15. Qd3 Bxe2 16. Qxe2 Ng4 17. Bg5+ Qxg5 18. Be6 Rh1+ 0-1

Mar-19-15		Annie K.: <VBD> I think the exploration of marine life is, these days, one of the greatest remaining sources of wonder for us. There's still such an amazing diversity of simple-to-complex underwater life forms that we know nothing about! Great articles, I've just read through them, thanks for bringing them here. :) <Switch> very energetic games indeed. ;s On the color spectrum, I suppose this dates me, :p but I still remember when the primary colors used to be simply red, blue, and yellow. Green was a secondary color you get when you mix yellow with blue, and you get all sorts of shades when you mix in some black, white, or gray. :s These days it's different, what with additive (red-green-blue) and subtractive (cyan-magenta-yellow) primary colors, and the red-blue-yellow set is acknowledged, grudgingly if at all, as the "paint-based/artistic primary colors". However, it's all fascinating. :) Some good color articles on Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primar... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comple... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color Especially the validity of our "placement" of complementary colors, based on visual tests of afterimages, shows that our idea of the color wheel is not entirely arbitrary, at least to the human eye, with its specific color receptors. Admittedly, the question of which sections of the (actually continuous) color wheel we decide to consider "separate colors" and which "just mixtures" is pretty arbitrary, yep.

Mar-20-15		Alien Math: Some interest of <'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? ;) > Appears near our description between blue or green, with xanh as base and adding with the sky for blue (xanh dưong) and xanh as base and adding a leaf (xanh lá cây), <because Finnish doesn't distinguish purple from violet.> Vietnameses language notes a difference between burgundy and other purple hues, add words for more light and less than light, About <additive (red-green-blue)> are still in computer language as numbers to allot variety of color

Mar-22-15		Annie K.: Hungarian has a separate word for burgundy too. :) Oh, about why purple seems more of a distinct color than turquoise, that probably has to do with color warmth, i.e., the range from coldest to warmest color, which starts from blue (coldest), takes the long way around the spectrum (via the -green-yellow-orange- route), and ends at red (warmest). Purple is a bit of a curiosity here, "the wrong(/short) way around", WRT color warmth; difficult to classify, with the more heavily blue shades looking quite cold, and the more heavily red shades perceived as warm. It may earn its status as a distinct color just for that. ;) BTW, I think violet - if we're talking about the shade that's pretty much an equal mix of red and blue - is "purple", or at least the most classic representation thereof.

Mar-30-15		Pyke: <Annie K.> Interesting point about colors. (AE :-)) It's particulary interesting, because it reminded me of a conversation I had some years ago. 12 to be exact, I just looked it up. Strange how you remember such things. My friend and I were big fans of Tarantino, and Kill Bill Vol. 1 was just released. After watching the movie for the ... I don't know how many times, we were listening to the soundtrack. At "The Lonely Shepherd" by Zamfir, my friend asks, what color do you think of? I say, White. Friend says, that's no colour. I say, you're right, then of course it's <purple<<>>> Friend said, yeah, right! And after this long winded story, we're back at your point: PURPLE definitely is something special: warm, but with a heavy touch of sadness and regret.

Apr-01-15		Alien Math: Found an interesting article about manuscript with Anglo-Saxon remedy kills hospital superbug MRSA http://www.newscientist.com/article... Take cropleek and garlic, of both equal quantities, pound them well together… take wine and bullocks gall, mix with the leek… let it stand nine days in the brass vessel… The medieval medics might have been on to something. A modern-day recreation of this remedy seems to alleviate infections caused by the bacteria that are usually responsible for styes. The work might ultimately help create drugs for hard-to-treat skin infections. Unexpectedly, the ingredients had little effect unless they were all brought together. "The big challenge is trying to find out why that combination works," says Steve Diggle, another of the researchers. Do the components work in synergy or do they trigger the formation of new potent compounds? Using exactly the right method also seems to be crucial, says Harrison, as another group tried to recreate the remedy in 2005 and found that their potion failed to kill bacteria grown in a dish. It wouldn't be the first modern drug to be derived from ancient manuscripts – the widely used antimalarial drug artemisinin was discovered by scouring historical Chinese medical texts. (http://www.newscientist.com/article...)

Apr-01-15		Alien Math: Almost forgot, here a gif Do you know how to draw a cat? https://plus.google.com/+FunnyWorms...

Apr-01-15		SwitchingQuylthulg: I had one second left at the end :) [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2015.04.01"] [Round "?"] [White "NN"] [Black "Quylthulg"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1904"] [BlackElo "2027"] [ECO "B00"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. e4 Nc6 2. Nf3 g6 3. Bb5 Bg7 4. d4 a6 5. Ba4 b5 6. Bb3 Bb7 7. c3 d6 8. Ng5 e6 9. Qf3 Qf6 10. Bf4 h6 11. e5 dxe5 12. dxe5 Qf5 13. g4 Nxe5 14. Qxb7 Nd3+ 15. Kf1 Qxf4 16. Qxa8+ Kd7 17. Qf3 Qc1+ 18. Kg2 Nf4+ 19. Kg3 Ne2+ 20. Qxe2 Qxh1 21. Nxf7 Qg1+ 22. Kh3 e5 23. Nxh8 Bxh8 24. Bxg8 h5 25. Bd5 e4 26. Bxe4 Be5 27. f4 Bxf4 28. Bxg6 h4 29. Bf5+ Kd8 30. a4 b4 31. cxb4 Qc1 32. Qd3+ Ke7 33. Qe4+ Kf6 34. Qe6+ Kg7 35. Qg6+ Kf8 36. Qf6+ Kg8 37. Qxh4 Qf1# {White checkmated} 0-1

Apr-01-15		SwitchingQuylthulg: Inspired by today's Puzzle of the Day... :) [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2015.04.01"] [Round "?"] [White "NN"] [Black "Quylthulg"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1933"] [BlackElo "2032"] [ECO "B00"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. e4 Nc6 2. Nf3 g6 3. d4 Bg7 4. d5 Ne5 5. Nxe5 Bxe5 6. f4 Bg7 7. c4 d6 8. Nc3 c5 9. Bd3 Nf6 10. O-O O-O 11. h3 a6 12. e5 Nd7 13. exd6 exd6 14. f5 Ne5 15. fxg6 fxg6 16. Rxf8+ Qxf8 17. Be2 Bd7 18. Be3 Bh6 19. Qd2 Bxe3+ 20. Qxe3 Re8 21. Rf1 Qg7 22. Qd2 h5 23. b3 Bf5 24. Nd1 h4 25. Ne3 Be4 26. Ng4 Nxg4 27. Bxg4 Qe5 28. Be6+ Rxe6 29. dxe6 Qxe6 30. Qg5 Bf5 31. Qxh4 b5 32. cxb5 axb5 33. Re1 Qd5 34. Qd8+ Kf7 35. Re7+ Kf6 36. Re4+ Kf7 37. Qe7+ Kg8 38. Qe8+ Kg7 39. Qe7+ Qf7 40. Qxf7+ Kxf7 41. Re3 d5 42. Kf2 d4 43. Re5 c4 44. Rxb5 c3 45. Rd5 d3 46. Ke1 d2+ 47. Kd1 Be4 48. Rd4 Bxg2 49. Rf4+ Ke6 50. Re4+ Kd5 {White forfeits on time} 0-1

Apr-01-15		Alien Math: Some pretty wild games <SwitchingQuylthulg> A reasoning about MENTAL BLOCKS WHEN SPEAKING LANGUAGES http://rawlangs.com/2015/03/13/ment... They seem to share some of my difficult when encounter variety of day to day commentary with others in English

Apr-03-15		Annie K.: Um... I accidentally clicked on a 0 2 game offer just now. And then I won it. This is probably not good. ;s Heh... I'll try to catch up here tomorrow, it's been a busy week. :)

Apr-04-15		Penguincw: Congrats <Annie> on successfully running the most important leg of them all - the Championship leg. :)

Apr-05-15		Annie K.: <Penguincw> thanks - I suppose it may be an easier leg to run, because there's so much capital being infused into the game from early on, by the qualifiers. And there were lots of high-profile events happening, so I didn't need to get very imaginative with "desperation exotics". ;) It's a fun job. Good luck with your shift too. :) <Pyke> thanks. What's "AE", btw? ;) <Hanh> Thanks for the links. Yes, folk medicine is not to be sneered at, that knowledge had accumulated over a long, long, time and quite a bit of it actually works, even if the discoverers of the remedies couldn't have told you why. The linguistic one was interesting too. To be sure, there are indeed in every new language learner's experience, times when situational stress can block your mental access to not-yet-deeply-ingrained vocabulary... but I'd say the author of the article is bringing much of that stress on himself in this case. His attitude problem is shown here: <For now I’m forever resigned to being that shifty looking guy barking pre-learned phrases and avoiding eye-contact in case it leads to further conversation which I won’t be able to keep up in and therefore my true identity as a foreigner – an imposter – will be revealed.> Imposter? (For that matter, 'impostor' is the more correct spelling, but not to digress...) What's wrong with being a foreigner? Why is he even trying to hide it? And then he gets angry for being "caught out". All this worry, fear, embarrassment, shame, guilt, anger... just because he has this idea that he should pretend to be a native. Why? That's a stressful, and therefore pretty self-defeating, cycle right there. In general, life tends to be much easier when you don't try to pass yourself off as someone you are not. :) <Switch> I'm not comfortable with Kside fianchetto myself, I get a little nervous when my K's castle construction is that airy... ;p But very fun games. :D

Apr-05-15		Pyke: <Annie K.> "AE" and it's posh, stuck-up sibling "BE" ... You know, using "colors" opposed to using "colours". I might be a bit biased here, but I always liked the, more direct, American spelling better that the British one.

Apr-05-15		Annie K.: Aha! :) I'm lazy, I always use whichever spelling is shorter. ;p

Apr-05-15		Penguincw: < Annie K.: <Penguincw> thanks - I suppose it may be an easier leg to run, because there's so much capital being infused into the game from early on, by the qualifiers. > You're lucky you get to host a leg with all this money in the economy. I might have to ask <cg> for a 2K Pay Day. ;) < And there were lots of high-profile events happening, so I didn't need to get very imaginative with "desperation exotics". ;) > Looks like there should be a lot of good events for the summer, especially with Norway and Dortmund starting back-to-back. And that's good, 'cause I can't come with anything. < It's a fun job. Good luck with your shift too. :) > Thanks, but I'm kinda nervous. Sure, I'm nervous in that there'll be a lot of pressure or whatever, but at the same time, 3 months can fly by. I'll probably relax thinking there's a lot of time left, but before I know it, it'll be my turn. You got any advice? Oh, and just in case it wasn't clear, Freeman has given me the nod for the summer. Thanks for encouraging me. :)

Apr-05-15		Annie K.: <Penguincw> yes, I heard the news too. You're welcome, I think you'll do fine. :) Don't worry, it's not very difficult, and you'll have all the help you'll need. Daniel already has some very good instructions written up, and I just sent him a file with some more useful stuff that he can forward to you and any other Bookies (as-is, or improved by him) when you get around to it. Meanwhile, you have an entire leg to watch what <Switch> does and take notes. ;)

Apr-05-15		Alien Math: Thanh is getting married at her request I mention the gift of meeting two peoples to one life her mind appears scattered with the what ifs, and unable to be reasoned with despite a loss of freedom that comes with the territory of marry her fears the loss of freedom while at the same time cherished at the thought of being whole as she mentions the joining a member of the Lê dynasty has accepted our family's request to combine

Apr-06-15		Annie K.: <Hanh> Wow, that's some news - best wishes for a happy marriage to <Thanh>! :)

Apr-06-15		perfidious: <Annie> If <Thanh> should read anything hereabouts, I also want to convey good wishes for her upcoming marriage. <Pyke....I might be a bit biased here, but I always liked the, more direct, American spelling better that the British one.> Was exposed to both in my youth, but my perception, one might say, is coloured towards British English.

Apr-06-15		Annie K.: Hi <perfidious>, feel free to drop in any time. :) I have no preference between British or American English per se - as stated, I go by Brevity Rulez. So it's 'color' over 'colour', and 'lift' over 'elevator'. ;p

Apr-06-15		WannaBe: I like to throw people off, so I always use the Non-US spelling...

Jump to page # (enter # from 1 to 274)
search thread:
< Earlier Kibitzing · PAGE 219 OF 274 · Later Kibitzing>

NOTE: Create an account today to post replies and access other powerful features which are available only to registered users. Becoming a member is free, anonymous, and takes less than 1 minute! If you already have a username, then simply login login under your username now to join the discussion.

Please observe our posting guidelines:

No obscene, racist, sexist, or profane language.
No spamming, advertising, duplicate, or gibberish posts.
No vitriolic or systematic personal attacks against other members.
Nothing in violation of United States law.
No cyberstalking or malicious posting of negative or private information (doxing/doxxing) of members.
No trolling.
The use of "sock puppet" accounts to circumvent disciplinary action taken by moderators, create a false impression of consensus or support, or stage conversations, is prohibited.
Do not degrade Chessgames or any of it's staff/volunteers.

Please try to maintain a semblance of civility at all times.

See something that violates our rules? Blow the whistle and inform a moderator.

NOTE: Please keep all discussion on-topic. This forum is for this specific user only. To discuss chess or this site in general, visit the Kibitzer's Café.

Messages posted by Chessgames members do not necessarily represent the views of Chessgames.com, its employees, or sponsors.
All moderator actions taken are ultimately at the sole discretion of the administration.

You are not logged in to chessgames.com.
If you need an account, register now;
it's quick, anonymous, and free!
If you already have an account, click here to sign-in.