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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-27-16		Annie K.: Very cute! :)

Jan-28-16		visayanbraindoctor: <Annie K: the Adamsons, who raised the lioness Elsa, and successfully returned her to the wild (of 'Born Free', 'Living Free' and 'Forever Free' fame), were also murdered by poachers.> What! I read Born Free when I was maybe 10. I did not know they got murdered. That's so sad.

Jan-28-16		visayanbraindoctor: I was incredulous to see the power of this big cat, the jaguar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E05... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMf... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMg... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBN... I did not even know there was a mammal capable of taking down alligators (the South American caimans are a kind of alligator, note the broad snouts in contrast to the crocodile's narrower one). I suspect that orcas can easily kill even the largest of the salt water crocodiles when they are swimming at sea. But a land mammal taking on a crocodilian at home in the water? Our cute kitties have the same kind of awesome pouncing power, but to a much smaller degree.

Jan-28-16		Annie K.: Yes, it is... :( That was many years ago that I've heard of it, too. I'll catch up with your video links tomorrow, they sound fascinating. Thanks!

Jan-28-16		visayanbraindoctor: <heuristic: <poaching> poaching can be considered an "investment". note that if a species goes extinct; their "products" go up in value: for example: http://www.takepart.com/feature/201... The underlying motivation for profit is terrible. I notice that the article seems to be blaming the Chinese culture specifically. However, I have seen many videos and read many articles of Chinese trying to save their wildlife. So there is a counter trend too, in China itself. A few years ago when the panda was in imminent danger of dying, Chinese law stipulated execution for those involved in killing Pandas and trading their skins. Over all, I think the Chinese have the most severe laws punishing poachers of endangered animals. The new Chinese attitude toward wildlife seems to be working. The Panda does not seem to be in outright danger of extinction. There are more sightings of the Siberian tiger in northern China, and a breeding population may have established itself near the Russian border. The tigers have attacked domestic animals, but the Chinese farmers seem to be understanding of the situation and I think the government gives them money to cover for their losses. Still too late for the Chinese river dolphin or Baiji. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baiji <The baiji population declined drastically in decades as China industrialized and made heavy use of the river for fishing, transportation, and hydroelectricity. It has been credibly claimed, after surveys in the Yangtze River during the 1980s, that baiji could be the first dolphin species in history that humans have driven to extinction. A Conservation Action Plan for Cetaceans of the Yangtze River was approved by the Chinese Government in 2001.[5] Efforts were made to conserve the species, but a late 2006 expedition failed to find any baiji in the river. Organizers declared the baiji functionally extinct.[6] The Baiji represents the first documented global extinction of a "megafaunal" vertabrae for over 50 years [7] since the demise of the Japanese sea lion and the Caribbean monk seal in the 1950s. It also signified the disappearance of an entire mammal family of river dolphins (Lipotidae).[7] The Baiji's extinction would be the first recorded extinction of a well-studied cetacean species (it is unclear if some previously extinct varieties were species or subspecies) to be directly attributable to human influence. Swiss economist and CEO of the baiji.org Foundation, August Pfluger funded the expedition, in which an international team, taken in part from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Fisheries Research Agency in Japan, searched for six weeks for signs of the dolphin. The search took place almost a decade after the last exploration in 1997, which turned up only 13 of the cetaceans.[8] In August 2007, a Chinese man reportedly videotaped a large white animal swimming in the Yangtze.[9] Although it was tentatively confirmed that the animal on the video is probably a baiji,[10] the presence of only one or a few animals, particularly of advanced age, is not enough to save a functionally extinct species from true extinction. The last known living baiji was Qiqi (淇淇), who died in 2002. The World Wildlife Fund is calling for the preservation of any possible baiji habitat, in case the species is located and can be revived.>

Jan-29-16		visayanbraindoctor: How cats immobilize crocodilian prey. Two lions killing a small crocodile. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqL... A tigress killing a huge crocodile, bigger than she is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9G... Apparently a big cat kills crocodilians by biting them at the nape, severing the cervical spinal cord. Same thing happens in patients with broken necks. The patient is alive and later regains full consciousness but can't move all limbs, nor feel anything below the neck. Seems the same happens to cat prey whose nape they bite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jF... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJM... Jaguars also may bite straight into the skull, and from what I can see from the videos, their canines target the temporal bone. This is the relatively thin part of the skull just above our ears. In humans, hacking or even stabbing this area often penetrates the brain. The patient gets an immediate brain concussion or contusion, which usually results in a sudden drop in sensorium, but may later wake up if the injury is not too severe. (Later I end up operating on these patients). The event above recorded on two consecutive videos is quite remarkable. Apparently the jaguar attacked the caiman underwater, but failed to bite the nape or skull. Instead of a quickly paralyzed or unconscious prey, the jaguar had to fight a desperate crocodilian bigger than him in the water. The jaguar gets a throat bite, which is the typical suffocation grip all cats use on mammalian prey, but it doesn't work for an amphibious reptile that can hold its breath for a long time. After a dramatic underwater fight, the jaguar succeeds in transferring his hold onto the nape and skull areas. In the second video, at 1:36, the caiman blinks! It looks fully conscious, but can't move its limbs or body below the head. Its cervical spinal cord must be severed. The caiman looks heavier than the jaguar. It might take him several days to eat all of it. I wonder if there is any study of what happens after. Does the big cat keep its prey alive in order to avoid spoilage over the course of several days of eating it? Theoretically the reptile would be able to stay alive for several days while the jaguar eats the non vital body parts first. (No one needs to worry if the caiman feels the pain of being eaten alive, since a severed cervical spinal cord means it can't feel a thing below its neck.) The jaguar's huge almost saber tooth canines: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe... The jaguar showing marvelous swimming ability. It seems to be the closest there is to an amphibious cat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIy...

Jan-30-16		Annie K.: Thanks, doc! :) I wonder why the big felines developed a taste for these reptiles. Though I somehow wouldn't be surprised if the answer was that there may be less competition for them as a food source than for meek land-bound herbivores. ;s But are they nourishing and non-toxic?

Jan-30-16		Alien Math: not all friendships survive bullying; Unlikely goat and tiger friendship tragically ends in fight https://www.yahoo.com/makers/unlike... Officials quickly entered the habitat, distracting the tiger in order to remove Timur and give him emergency veterinary treatment. We hope Amur and Timur can forgive each other and be reunited in the future.

Jan-30-16		Annie K.: That probably wouldn't be a good idea.

Jan-30-16		Alien Math: apparently a gopro isnt for sparrows; We Put A GoPro On A Sparrow http://www.clickhole.com/video/we-p...

Jan-30-16		Annie K.: Have they gotten around to trying it on ants yet? :s

Jan-30-16		visayanbraindoctor: <Alien Math: not all friendships survive bullying; Unlikely goat and tiger friendship tragically ends in fight> Not really surprising. It was nice while it lasted. <Timur began to suffer from obesity due to the beneficial relationship.> <Annie K.: That probably wouldn't be a good idea.> Amur is going to be one well fed tiger if he and Timur have another fight.

Jan-30-16		visayanbraindoctor: <there may be less competition for them as a food source> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intra... <Intraguild predation, or IGP, is the killing and eating of potential competitors..> <Among the most dramatic examples of intraguild predation are those between large mammalian carnivores. Large canines and felines are the mammal groups most often involved in IGP, with larger species such as lions and gray wolves preying upon smaller species such as foxes and lynx.[11] In North America, coyotes function as intraguild predators of gray foxes and bobcats, and may exert a strong influence over the population and distribution of gray foxes.[12] However, in areas where wolves have been reintroduced, coyotes become an intermediate predator and experience increased mortality and a more restricted range.[13] Intraguild predation is also important in aquatic and marine ecosystems. As top predators in most marine environments, sharks show strong IGP interactions, both between species of sharks and with other top predators like toothed whales. In tropical areas where multiple species of sharks may have significantly overlapping diets, the risk of injury or predation can determine the local range and available prey resources for different species.[14] Large pelagic species such as blue and mako sharks are rarely observed feeding in the same areas as great white sharks, and the presence of white sharks will prevent other species from scavenging on whale carcasses.[15] Intraguild predation between sharks and toothed whales usually involves large sharks preying upon dolphins and porpoises while also competing with them for fish prey, but orcas reverse this trend by preying upon large sharks while competing for large fish and seal prey> According to Wikipedia <The jaguar is more of a dietary generalist than its Old World cousins: the American tropics have a high diversity of small animals but relatively low populations and diversity of the large ungulates which this genus favors.[52] They regularly take adult caimans,[53] deer, capybaras, tapirs, peccaries, dogs, zorros, and sometimes even anacondas.> Caimans are first to be mentioned as jaguar prey. Next on the list are deer and capybara. These also seem to be the caimans' preferred food. Jaguar predation on the caimans then serves to eliminate competition and to fill up their stomachs. Recently I became aware of another example of IGP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnb... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWB... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf4... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRu... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHH... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pv... I thought that usually sharks eat sea lions. It seems it's just a matter of size. If a sea lion is larger than the shark, the sea lion will eat the shark. Both of them are in competition, eating smaller fishes.

Jan-30-16		Alien Math: <Annie K.: Have they gotten around to trying it on ants yet? :s > i was curious enough to attempt a search for "+ant on gopro" sadly enough they only show ants wandering in front of the gopro, not actually wearing them

Jan-31-16		Alien Math: I love the Internet, when it does things like this http://imgur.com/gallery/kouJX

Feb-02-16		Alien Math: Upset Animals (4/16) http://www.boredpanda.com/upset-ani... from http://www.boredpanda.com/upset-ani...

Feb-04-16		Alien Math: once again, 9gag provides http://9gag.com/gag/anN514b

Feb-07-16		Annie K.: <VBD> thanks much, that makes perfect sense too. :) <Hanh> very funny stuff, thanks!

Feb-17-16		Alien Math: Thought you might like this, 2 hours to build a kitty door meets a cat http://damnbored.tv/dad-building-ki...

Feb-17-16		Annie K.: Smart kitty. :) Of course next time, the owner should lock the door, and then demonstrate how the kitty door works when kitty wants in and is paying attention. ;)

Feb-22-16		visayanbraindoctor: Good news for fans of big cats. The jaguar may be making a comeback in southern USA, and area where thay have been gone for a hundred years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3b... Likewise, the Siberian tiger may also be coming back into northern China. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DR...

Feb-22-16		Annie K.: Thanks, doc! :) Hmm... let's just hope the locals are likewise delighted about it. At least a little bit, secretly, or something...? ;s

Feb-22-16		WinKing: Hi <Annie K.>! I'm trying to find out at what time the rounds are going to start in the Aeroflot Open being held in Moscow, Russia from March 1-10. My Russian isn't very good & I wasn't sure if that is one of the languages you know or not. If you could steer me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated. :) Here is the official website: http://ruchess.ru/championship/deta... Sometimes they have a space to click on for the English translation but I didn't see one here. I'd like to put up a bet for the Winner of this event but I won't unless I have more information. I do have the list of players which is a start. I think the starting time is 15:00 hrs. Moscow time but I am not sure of this.

Feb-22-16		Alien Math: Aeroflot Open 2016 Festival schedule http://en.chessbase.com/post/intern... is consistent with rules pdf found at http://www.acfed.ru/upload/%D0%9F%D... for most main languages the google translate appears to work well at https://translate.google.com/

Feb-22-16		WinKing: <Alien Math: Aeroflot Open 2016 Festival schedule http://en.chessbase.com/post/intern... Thank you <Alien Math>! That is a great help with all the info listed there.

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