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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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Jun-02-15		Annie K.: So? Obviously he doesn't believe the 60M-y dating. But then, I don't particularly care what creationists believe, so let's not talk about that. ;p Yeah, makes sense on the obesity/poverty correlation, although then the question is, just what is considered "poverty", given that these people can apparently still afford to buy junk food, at least.

Jun-03-15		Alien Math: Talk to a few peoples downtown the other day, when one gets a dollar or two they visit a fast food establishment and gain a burger and maybe fries also, 60M-y dating reminds of "Procrastination is the Art of Keeping Up with Yesterday & Avoiding Today" a Wayne Dyer quote that found on mar 24 lol

Jun-06-15		visayanbraindoctor: <Alien Math: Talk to a few peoples downtown the other day, when one gets a dollar or two they visit a fast food establishment and gain a burger and maybe fries also> Unbelievable as it seems there are some people here who can't even afford that on a regular basis. Sometimes they end up serving rice and salt for dinner for their kids. They have to save money for transpo, maintaining a small house, and if possible sending their kids to school. Yet also unbelievable as it sounds, they apportion part of their income to a daily pack of cigarettes and beer or two on weekends. Don't let your dog stray far from your house, or these people might catch it. They might kill it, cook it, and eat it; it's like lechon to them. Just happened to a friend's dog. If it's a cute white puppy, they'll just dog-nap it for their own. Happened to another friend's dog. Since the puppy grows to look different as an adult, you can't prove that it was stolen from you. <Annie> Don't worry, they don't eat cats as far as I know (",) French fries are hypertensive killers. Lots of fats (the oil) and carbohydrates and nothing else. Sure way to get hypertension and strokes.

Jun-11-15		Annie K.: <vbd> well, I guess people need to feel that they can afford some luxury. Giving that up could lead to depression, which would hardly be better for their families. That's really too bad about the dogs - they should not be allowed outside alone. <Hanh> neat, thanks! Oh, could you maybe please help us out with the search for the Chinese script of Tingjie Lei 's name? :)

Jun-11-15		Alien Math: <Annie K.> Lei Tingjie 雷挺婕 http://baike.baidu.com/view/1249789...

Jun-11-15		Annie K.: Wow, that was quick. Thanks! :)

Jun-11-15		WannaBe: Got it, added it to my list o' names.

Jun-16-15		WinKing: <Annie K.: <WinKing> Hi! I've noticed how involved you are in all the betting activities around <cg>, so I thought I'd drop in here to ask if you might like to take a turn running the ChessBookie now and then too? :)> Hi <Annie K>! Yeah I like to see people have a good time at <chessgames> so I try be active to help make that happen. As far as being the 'ChessBookie' goes I would like a crack at it. I am going to be very busy with projects that I am commited to from September thru November of this year. Would it be possible for me to give it a go in one of the first two legs in 2016? I will have the time to give the game the full attention it deserves then. Just let me know <Annie K.> if that would be good. :)

Jun-16-15		Annie K.: Oh, great! That would be perfect, in fact - especially if you wouldn't mind taking the next Championship leg, which runs January-February-March. Remember that you can't play in the championship if you are the Bookie, but if you have qualified, you can have your qualification transferred to next year. Would that be ok? :)

Jun-16-15		WinKing: <Annie K.: Oh, great! That would be perfect, in fact - especially if you wouldn't mind taking the next Championship leg, which runs January-February-March.> Ok count me in for the January-February-March leg. <Remember that you can't play in the championship if you are the Bookie, but if you have qualified, you can have your qualification transferred to next year. Would that be ok? :)> Sounds good. :)

Jun-17-15		Annie K.: Wonderful, thanks very much! I'll tell Daniel. He'll get in touch with you before the leg, to make sure you're still available, and show you the ropes. :)

Jun-17-15		WinKing: Looking forward to it <Annie K.>. :)

Jun-18-15		Alien Math: <Annie K.> I seem to find compatibility issues with name attempts from English to Chinese while using google translate, are that something you find as well?

Jun-19-15		WannaBe: <Alien Math> I don't know what name you entered, but when I enter "WannaBe" it returned <Know it all smart alec wabbit, approach with caution, as gun barrels may be turned back towards you> Sounds pretty accurate to me! =))

Jun-20-15		Alien Math: American sci-fi novelist Philip K. Dick once famously asked, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? While he was on the right track, the answer appears to be, no, they don’t. They dream of dog-headed knights atop horses, of camel-birds and pig-snails, and of Dali-esque mutated landscapes. Google trains the software by feeding it millions of images, eventually teaching it to recognize specific objects within a picture. When it’s fed an image, it is asked to emphasize the object in the image that it recognizes. But the networks aren’t restricted to only identifying images. Their training allows them to generate images as well. http://qz.com/432678/the-dreams-of-... <WannaBe> Interesting :)

Jun-20-15		Annie K.: Heh... I never tried to enter anything Chinese into Google Translate, because it's Chinese to me. ;s Errm, I mean, with the Latin (and some other) languages, I often have some idea what the text is generally about, so I can tell for myself whether Google Translate is somewhere in the ball park or not. But with a completely unknown language, I am much more likely to just insult somebody's mom. And I prefer to only do that sort of thing on purpose. ;p Interesting article too, though the results are hardly surprising. If you feed a program millions of dog images, and then ask it what it recognizes, well, there are just gonna be some dogs in there. If Google spent some more time feeding its AIs that many images of sheep, they'd be "dreaming" of sheep all right.

Jun-21-15		Alien Math: <Annie K.> I often find google translate transposes or moves the name order when going from english to chinese, like Tingjie Lei's name in google translate becomes Lǚtíngjié lěi or Ting jie Lei becomes Tǐng léi jié, happens so often that prefer to translate towards chinese by memory and perform a search with my result or use google to translate back for double checking

Jul-01-15		shivasuri4: http://www.quora.com/Why-are-Israel...

Jul-02-15		Annie K.: <Hanh> yeah, Google Translate is still far from being much good. :\ <shiva> heheh! Much of that is pretty true, and most of it is very funny. :D What do you think? ;)

Jul-03-15		shivasuri4: It is funny, yes, but I have no idea how true it is. Will take your word for it. I have never had the chance to meet an Israeli.

Jul-03-15		Annie K.: Well, you've "met" me. ;) I'm sortof a Hungarian-Israeli cultural mix, but being some kind of a a mix is an Israeli thing too. :)

Jul-11-15		SwitchingQuylthulg: What using the Opening Trainer did to my game... [Event "rated blitz match"] [Site "Free Internet Chess Server"] [Date "2015.07.11"] [Round "?"] [White "NN"] [Black "Quylthulg"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1917"] [BlackElo "2090"] [ECO "B00"] [TimeControl "300"] 1. e4 Nc6 2. Nf3 h6 3. d4 g5 4. d5 Nb8 5. Qd4 Rh7 6. e5 c5 7. Qe4 Rh8 8. Nc3 d6 9. e6 Nf6 10. Qf5 Bg7 11. Bd3 Kf8 12. O-O a6 13. h3 b5 14. Nh2 fxe6 15. dxe6 Nc6 16. Be3 Kg8 17. f4 gxf4 18. Rxf4 Qe8 19. Ng4 Nb4 20. Nxf6+ exf6 21. Rg4 Bxe6 22. Rxg7+ Kxg7 23. Qf3 Nxd3 24. cxd3 Qg6 25. Ne4 Bd5 26. Rf1 Rae8 27. Qf4 Bxe4 28. dxe4 Rxe4 29. Qf2 Rhe8 30. Bxc5 Re2 31. Qf3 dxc5 32. Qb7+ R8e7 33. Qc6 Re1 34. Qxc5 Rxf1+ 35. Kxf1 Qb1+ 36. Kf2 Qe1+ 37. Kf3 Qe2+ 38. Kf4 Qe5+ 39. Qxe5 Rxe5 40. g4 Re2 41. b4 Rxa2 42. Ke4 Rb2 43. Kf4 Rxb4+ 44. Kf3 a5 45. Ke3 a4 46. Kd3 Rc4 47. Ke3 a3 48. Kd3 a2 49. Ke3 a1=Q 50. Kd3 Qc3+ 51. Ke2 Rd4 52. Kf2 Rd2+ 53. Kf1 Qc1# {White checkmated} 0-1

Jul-11-15		Annie K.: Are you sure you were using it the way you were supposed to? ;s Fun game. :D

Jul-15-15		Alien Math: <Annie K.> Following a trend of many browsers providing a recent update, Opera 30.0.1835.125 Stable update (60) comments by Marcin Mitek / July 14, 2015 http://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2015... here’s another stabilization/bugfixing update for our Stable channel – Opera 30. Chromium was updated to version 43.0.2357.130.

Jul-19-15		Penguincw: Hi <Annie>. :) So, I hear it's your birthday in a week. So, happy early birthday (or as <Switch> would say, "Happy non-Birthday". Last leg, <Switch> had "Exotic Day" on <wordfunph>'s birthday, and suggested that I can do the same for yours. So, any ideas what I should do (it's up to you). I honestly got nothing. :P

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