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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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Apr-07-15		Alien Math: Have told Thanh a couple people offer happy wishes on this page

Apr-07-15		Thanh Phan: <Annie K.> and <perfidious> I wish to thank you for your good wishes, glad to spend a moment with my friends, hânh cơ vưa email to k ? until again, Thanh

Apr-07-15		Alien Math: That end well, she got to leave on a peaceful setting, her safe trip home

Apr-10-15		Alien Math: I fail to find the words wished to use sometimes, rely on google translate with hand held device even in public, Frustrate sometimes yet finding few times the need to use google, yet still have accent that make a challenge for other english only type to understand, Still note some progress, also note Thanh was able to overcome her need to google, know are possible for improvement, hopes gather

Apr-10-15		Alien Math: Found a decent site that helps show the different parts in english phrase by phrase http://bloghoctienganh.net/ also a facebook page https://www.facebook.com/tienganhth... with helpful explaining in both việt and english the differences to look for in english

Apr-11-15		Alien Math: Now the sand won't move http://9gag.com/gag/aD3ZZ6Z

Apr-11-15		WannaBe: If that truck is moving reeeeeeeally slow, like 1KPH, maybe 0.5KPH. =))

Apr-15-15		Annie K.: <Hanh> practice, practice, practice. And try to have fun while you're at it. :) Heh, thanks for pic!

Apr-16-15		Alien Math: I try not to discourage, with Thanh return to her new home our higher English class are cancel, Love some simple readings we find like comics or a book base on a favorite movie

Apr-17-15		Alien Math: What was interesting on the English only! days was realizing just how much we relied on Thanh for keeping the day lite and our outlook relaxed, Several things i want to say, yet her happiness, i will not ever react to our loss since she has been there since day one and have been guiding us toward the light more than once, She was our future

Apr-17-15		Annie K.: Yes, <Thanh> is a very positive person. For now, if it helps, ask yourself what she would say or do if she were there - in time you will learn to manage by yourself, both in attitude and linguistically, and independence is always best. :)

Apr-17-15		Alien Math: <Annie K.> Thanks :) sometimes just need a reminder

Apr-17-15		Alien Math: Kind of like this, “Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” (Hãy chăm sóc bản thân bạn. Đó là nơi duy nhất mà bạn tồn tại.)

Apr-19-15		SwitchingQuylthulg: There's a lesson in here about grabbing exchanges, though I'm not entirely sure what it is :) [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2015.04.19"] [Round "?"] [White "NN"] [Black "Quylthulg"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1897"] [BlackElo "2001"] [ECO "A10"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. c4 Nc6 2. g3 e5 3. Bg2 Nf6 4. Nc3 Bc5 5. e3 O-O 6. Nge2 d6 7. O-O a5 8. b3 Bg4 9. h3 Bh5 10. g4 Bg6 11. d4 exd4 12. Nxd4 Ne5 13. Bxb7 Nd3 14. Bg2 Qd7 15. Nd5 Nxd5 16. cxd5 Rae8 17. Nc6 f5 18. Bd2 fxg4 19. hxg4 Re4 20. Bxe4 Bxe4 21. f3 Rxf3 22. Rxf3 Qxg4+ 23. Kh2 Bxf3 24. Qg1 Qh4# {White checkmated} 0-1

Apr-19-15		MarkFinan: Looking good at the bookies after today, Annie. Congrats and good luck.

Apr-19-15		Annie K.: <Mark> thanks, good luck to you too! It may just be a short visit at the leaderboard, since I'm already heavily invested in the next round... ;) <Hanh> that's excellent advice. :) <Switch> ouch - nice game, you even have the DSB on the right diagonal and everything. ;) Though I'm not sure why White wouldn't take that Rook on a8, eventually taking it on e4 certainly turned out to be a less than great idea. :s In other news, I am now the - um, well, "proud" is not exactly the right word, "amused" maybe - but, owner of the FIDE Online Arena title AIM (Arena International Master). That's a "title" earned by staying above 1700 for either 50 rapid games, or 100 blitz games, or 150 bullet games. ;p I took the blitz route. :)

Apr-20-15		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> Congratulations! What's the rating requirement for Arena Grandmaster, 1800?

Apr-20-15		Annie K.: Thanks. Heh, the AGM requirement is 2000... you could get it easily. :) Looks like I'm staying on the leadeboard for at least another day, too. ;)

Apr-21-15		Alien Math: <Annie K.> Your rating congrats! Glad to note

Apr-23-15		Annie K.: <Hanh> thanks! :) OK, putting here links to a couple of cute online games featuring my favorite castle, Neuschwanstein: Interior - http://www.eightgames.com/escape-fr... Castle views* - http://www.funnygames.in/game/spot_... * Well, they are mostly Neuschwanstein - I don't recognize the first scene, and one of the later scenes shows, I believe, the smaller Hohenschwangau Castle, which is right at the foot of the hill Neuschwanstein is located on, and is the "old home" - that's where Ludwig II lived before he built his own hilltop dream castle. Yes, it's an old obsession of mine, mostly from jigsaw puzzles. ;p I have been there once, too. :)

Apr-24-15		SwitchingQuylthulg: I'm no good at spot-the-difference... maybe that's why I can't tell apart sound attacks and unsound attacks. [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2015.04.24"] [Round "?"] [White "Quylthulg"] [Black "NN"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "1988"] [BlackElo "1981"] [ECO "A06"] [TimeControl "180"] 1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 Nc6 3. g3 Bg4 4. Bg2 e6 5. O-O Nf6 6. Ne5 Nxe5 7. dxe5 Nd7 8. Bf4 Be7 9. h3 Bh5 10. g4 Bg6 11. c4 c6 12. cxd5 cxd5 13. Nc3 h5 14. e4 hxg4 15. exd5 gxh3 16. Bf3 exd5 17. Nxd5 Bg5 18. e6 fxe6 19. Nc7+ Kf7 20. Nxe6 Bxf4 21. Nxd8+ Raxd8 22. Qb3+ {Black resigns} 1-0

Apr-24-15		Annie K.: <Switch> ouch - the way you play, I can't tell them apart very well either! ;s

Apr-25-15		Alien Math: Super Cat ~ http://bizarrocomic.blogspot.com/20...

Apr-26-15		visayanbraindoctor: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/... <A northern white rhino has died. There are now five left in the entire world.> Sad news from the world of Biology. The northern white rhinoceros is about to go extinct.

Apr-26-15		visayanbraindoctor: Varied news from Biology: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/reports... 65-year-old German woman pregnant with quadruplets http://phenomena.nationalgeographic... One Protein Shows Elephants and Moles Had Aquatic Ancestors http://news.nationalgeographic.com/... Brontosaurus Stomps Back to Claim Its Status as Real Dinosaur http://news.nationalgeographic.com/... Do Whales Have Culture? Humpbacks Pass on Behavior

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