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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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Oct-05-10		Annie K.: On further thought... some fictional characters are fictionally mortal. Just what level fictionality heaven do they go to? This gets complicated. :s If your normal formal heaven is fictional, is it good enough for the fictional mortal? Or is there a fictional-squared heaven for those? Also, is that meta for fictional? I kinda lost the thread here. :s

Oct-05-10		chancho: <Annie> Thanks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQsj...

Oct-05-10		Russian Grandmasters: From "The Blustery Day": <Pooh>: "Suppose that big branch breaks and falls on us when we pass under it." <Piglet>: "Suppose, it doesn't."

Oct-07-10		Annie K.: <chancho> thanks backatcha. :) <Jess>, yeah, that's <Pessimism vs Optimism: The Final Showdown 6> I love those Milne books, btw. ;)

Oct-07-10		Russian Grandmasters: <Annie> me too! Are you familiar with the perhaps lesser known <The Pooh of Chess> by A.A. Milner-Barry?

Oct-07-10		crawfb5: <Are you familiar with the perhaps lesser known <The Pooh of Chess> by A.A. Milner-Barry?> I thought he wrote <Chess for Tiggers>.

Oct-07-10		Annie K.: Hmm, why do I have a feeling that book has all the considerable authenticity of M61MG...?? o_O I think I'll refer this case to <Dangit, Fakeit & Gambit Fraud Investigations VLtd.>. :p

Oct-07-10		crawfb5: Fine, have them contact <Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe>.

Oct-09-10		Annie K.: Oh, wonderful! They should get along famously. :D

Oct-09-10		Annie K.: Heh... fun cheapo (cheapo because 27...Bxd5 wasn't necessary - there were better moves), but tactics to the max! ;) [Event "FICS rated blitz game"] [Date "2010.10.10"] [White "AnnieK"] [Black "NN"] [WhiteElo "1500"] [BlackElo "1605"] [TimeControl "600+0"] [Mode "ICS"] [Result "1-0"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Be7 4. c3 Nf6 5. d3 O-O 6. Bb3 d5 7. exd5 Nxd5 8. h3 Be6 9. O-O f6 10. Qe2 Bf7 11. Bc2 Bg6 12. Nh4 Bf7 13. Nf5 Bc5 14. Qg4 g6 15. d4 exd4 16. cxd4 Bd6 17. Bh6 Re8 18. Nxd6 Qxd6 19. Nc3 Nxc3 20. bxc3 Be6 21. Qh4 Bc4 22. Rfe1 f5 23. Bf4 Qd7 24. Bh6 Qf7 25. Red1 Re2 26. Ba4 a6 27. d5 Bxd5 28. Rxd5 Qxd5 29. Bb3 Qxb3 30. axb3 Rae8 31. Qf6 R2e7 32. Kh2 Ne5 33. Re1 Rf7 34. Qg5 Nf3+ 35. gxf3 Rxe1 36. Qd8+ 1-0 I also established a new blitz high rating of 1562 today. Whee!

Oct-09-10		dakgootje: 27. ...Bxd5 is not losing though is it? After 28. ...Re4 black regains the piece. :) Congrats getting a new personal high-score ^^

Oct-09-10		Annie K.: <dakkie> thanks, and you're right. :) Maybe he was afraid of giving me time to line up the Rooks on the d file, but most likely he simply didn't see Bb3 coming.

Oct-09-10		Russian Grandmasters: What a smashing suggestion! What do you think the odds are that they'll actually do it? I'm surprised <PB>, <Doggimus>, <Benzol> and <mysterious other people> haven't themselves suggested it already. Possibly there are so few people interested in accurate biographical details that it hasn't even been an issue for them. I don't mean that members don't care about the details- rather, that they are most likely to read the bios passively, assuming they have the weight of institutional administrative authority and "must be correct." And of course almost always they are. But I bet the number of inquiries about wanting to/ how to/ change the bios is exceedingly small. Except in my case, as the long suffering <PB> will attest. Oh and re: "Personal chess forum posting ettiquette," take a look at what I just put in the <memorable quotes> forum if you have time. Living proof that there are more egregious offences than failing to say "hello" to the host. (HELLO ANNIE!!!) Nice to meet you.

Oct-09-10		Annie K.: Hello <Jess>! ;) I sent a nandu to your NEW OSTRICH ADDRESS a while ago. Hope it found the way. Yes, I already saw what you quoted at the "memorables"... indeed quite an interesting manifestation of our <evil entity>, which has been quite busy today - check out Ulhumbrus's forum as well. :s <Biographer forum> I think they may do it, if they haven't thought of some different solution themselves already. You're right that it probably won't be a <very> busy forum, but just freeing the bioadmins from feeling like they have to keep up with everything on the cg.com forum would in itself be an improvement - plus, another thing is that people may <become> more active about posting suggestions if they know the option exists, AND we'll stop losing all the cases, which surely exist, of people maybe wanting to suggest something, but not knowing where to do it, not wanting to bother the cg admins with "such little things", and eventually just going "oh, forget it".

Oct-09-10		jessicafischerqueen: Yes good point. I think the administrators should go out of their way to welcome <member suggestions>, since this is the only way the database can be improved. I'm not saying they don't welcome suggestions- but you know when it's time to address the <CG.com> forum, the preferred mindset should properly be: "I hope there are hundreds of substantive suggestions here- because then our database will be improved" and not "I hope there are no suggestions here today" <We> can help by reading FAQs before posting suggestions, by not posting frivolous or argumentative suggestions, and by refraining from any kind of off-topic fare on the admin forum. I will check the new mailbox today! I hope I remember the password I made... On other news <Eyal> is back!

Oct-09-10		jessicafischerqueen: LOL!!!!! <Do not sound so condesceding> "When self-referentiality goes wrong"

Oct-09-10		Annie K.: Heh, yeah - now there's somebody who could always find work in a cinema... as a projector. Unbelievable nerve, innit? :\ Yeah, ceegee does sometime seem to prefer their own planning to "outside" input, but to give them credit, their own plans are usually very good, sensible and professional. Also it may be a matter of not wanting to be "indebted" to people by accepting a lot of suggestions, since that could lead to unpleasant situations where some members whose suggestions have been taken could come to believe they have earned a right to <demand> things.

Oct-09-10		jessicafischerqueen: Yes, but note that the most substantial contributors are usually those who don't demand things. Such as <Doggimus, David Moodie, Tony Palmer, Peter Fontaine, Scott Thompson, and hundreds of others from the "old school">. It's dumb to demand things from the owners anyways- usually has the opposite effect than what's intended. I have had good results with <Abraham Lincoln> via polite, well-spaced EMUS. He always replies within 24 hours, invariably with good news, so I don't email him unless it's something '<I>' feel is urgent. <as a projector> LOL EMU safeandsound and brief return of serve.

Oct-09-10		chancho: The Heights - How Do You Talk To An Angel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0OH...

Oct-10-10		Annie K.: <chancho> thanks. :) <Jess: <Yes, but note that the most substantial contributors are usually those who don't demand things.>> Yup. But there were actually a few cases where people made suggestions that ceegee accepted and then they (these members) started complaining about the "insufficient gratitude". So I guess the admins learned to be careful about who they allow to "plant an ob" on them (that's a reference to a hilarious science fiction short story, that you can find here: http://www.abelard.org/e-f-russell....) - that is, who they'll let themselves be "indebted to". Great follow-up at Ulhumbrus's place, btw. ;)

Oct-11-10		Russian Grandmasters: Well I figured if I just copied his own post, how much trouble could I get in to? <Howard> tells me that no good deed goes unpunished. But I say, "How sharper than a Tuna's tooth is an ungrateful minnow." Plant an obligation I'm guessing? Thanks to your handy post, I can read that story now. If there's any chess in it we can review it for <MooseBookForum>.

Oct-11-10		Phony Benoni: Personally, I'm not an assertive person in any event and generally prefer to quietly add to the backlog of correction slips. The only time I'll go to the Chessgames Forum is when something pops up that looks more like a system problem than a mistake. It is amusing to see how kibitzers will post their corrections on that page proudly, as if they had found the Only Mistake In The Database. Piffle. Any regular user could find dozens, even hundreds without really trying. I do find it frustrating not beina able to make corrections myself, but I also understand the reluctance to release that pwoer to others. For 30 years, I've been updating and maintaining my library's catalog, which is essentially a database these days not unlike chessgames.com. And I have nightmares from thinking that someone else, no matter how qualified, might make changes to my baby. Horrors, horrors. Now, why did I really pop in here? Oh, yeah, the discussion of a biography correctio forum. It's a nice idea if you're willing to work at it, but I fear most people would still post on the player page and not use the forum. But I'm Mr. Pessimist, so don't listen to me.

Oct-11-10		crawfb5: <Phony Benoni: Personally, I'm not an assertive person in any event and generally prefer to quietly add to the backlog of correction slips. The only time I'll go to the Chessgames Forum is when something pops up that looks more like a system problem than a mistake.> I can understand going to the CG Forum; submitting correction slips is like putting a message in a bottle, as there is no real way of knowing if a slip hasn't been examined or has been examined and found wanting: From an old post back in 2008: <If you are wondering how quickly corrections are processed from the correction queue: it's slow, done in an arbitrary order, and generally pel-mel. It could take a day, or it could take a year. However the good news is this: we NEVER lose correction slips -- even if we have thousands of them in the queue right now, none of them ever leave the queue until they are investigated and processed.> I still think some sort of semi-automated email notification on correction slips and PGN submissions would be useful. If it's a minor goof on <our> part like Result "1/2" instead of Result "1/2-1/2" we could fix it and resubmit. I'm missing <one> game from St. Louis 1904 and I don't know if I failed to submit it with the rest or if it got bounced for some reason. I (re)submitted it, but now I will have to wait to see if it shows up. If it doesn't, I then have try to figure out why. <sneaky> found an Atlantic City 1921 game in our database I didn't realize we had because it is mislabeled as being played in New York. The software would bounce my submission of that game as a duplicate, but I wouldn't know why or even that it had been done. I could keep submitting and resubmitting and resubmitting... <It is amusing to see how kibitzers will post their corrections on that page proudly, as if they had found the Only Mistake In The Database. Piffle. Any regular user could find dozens, even hundreds without really trying.> Well at that point it <is> the Only Mistake That Matters... :-) <I do find it frustrating not beina able to make corrections myself, but I also understand the reluctance to release that pwoer to others. For 30 years, I've been updating and maintaining my library's catalog, which is essentially a database these days not unlike chessgames.com. And I have nightmares from thinking that someone else, no matter how qualified, might make changes to my baby. Horrors, horrors.> Yes, and changing something and then having someone else change it back because source material differs is a real possibility. For example, as an update to the discussions we had about Szapiro in Najdorf vs S Szapiro, 1948 (and elsewhere), I now suspect the <name> is correct, but the <date> and <place> are what's wrong, at least with this particular game. <Now, why did I really pop in here? Oh, yeah, the discussion of a biography correctio forum. It's a nice idea if you're willing to work at it, but I fear most people would still post on the player page and not use the forum. But I'm Mr. Pessimist, so don't listen to me.> Did you say something? :-)

Oct-11-10		Russian Grandmasters: <Big Tuna> is an assertive person in all events. I have proof: "It's not over till <I> say it's over." --Big Tuna 2010, over at Howard's house

Oct-11-10		crawfb5: ...in all events internetical...

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