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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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Oct-14-10		jessicafischerqueen: <Annie> yes I'm familiar with that TV series = it's very popular with my students. They don't care about the "history part", but they love the "soap opera" part. Yes you are right the Hungarian music of happy-sorrow will indeed appear in a chess film segment- in the future, but I already have something in mind. <Dak> you may be interested to learn that Will Smith is a popular film actor. His son, Will Smith II, however, is in fact a mime, as you point out. Seems like a step down, no?

Oct-14-10		chancho: <dakgootje> Yeah, I noticed that. Same facial expressions and mannerisms. He's young and I'm guessing he'll eventually realize that pretending to be his Dad, can only go so far.

Oct-14-10		Thanh Phan: Annie K its a self defense style

Oct-15-10		dakgootje: <Jess> I almost started to think it was the other way-around! Junior missed the white face paint and silly hat - but perhaps the hat would have messed up his hairdo. Moreover, he spoke. But, let's be fair, he is still young and has a lot to learn. Perhaps with a few years time he will change his name from Smithtoo to Marceautoux. <chancho> I do not think he is really pretending to be WILL-E Smith, but either learned it at basic acting lessons <or> simply can't help it. It happens more often that people use exactly the same facial expressions as their parents, unknowingly. Also interesting, they never like it when it is pointed out. <Vovinam> For some reason I immediately associated it with Vol-au-vent. No disrespect to Vovinam, but a defense centered around vol-au-vent would be much more interesting :D

Oct-15-10		Annie K.: <Thanh> thanks. :) <dakkie: <<or> simply can't help it. It happens more often that people use exactly the same facial expressions as their parents, unknowingly.>> That's exactly what I was thinking too. Kids pick up all sorts of mannerisms from their parents; nothing unusual about that, it's just more noticeable when Daddy and Sonny are both actors. Then again, it does seem to indicate that they are then both just "being themselves", more than 'acting', in front of the cameras. <Jess> aha... I didn't know whether it was still being aired, or was perhaps "before your time". ;) BTW, on a general note - I know I'm often stating the obvious... this is because it has happened to me many times on message boards that I wanted to point something out, but then I said, "oh, that's too obvious" - and then several days later somebody else would come along, and post exactly the same thing... and everybody would be all over them with comments like "oh that's <SO PROFOUND>, you are <SO INSIGHTFUL>!", and there I would be, going "That's "profound"?! Grrrr, why, I could have said that a week ago!" to myself. :p After a number of such incidents, I vowed to henceforth point out <everything relevant> that hasn't been said yet, even if it's something TOTALLY OBVIOUS, like "water is wet" - because I apparently can't tell what is totally obvious and what isn't. :s So yeah, I do that, and it's not meant to be a slight to anybody's knowledge or intelligence. ;)

Oct-15-10		chancho: Saludos <Annie>.

Oct-15-10		jessicafischerqueen: <Annie> excellent plan. Inspired by your example, I've decided to return to my old style of posting, which is to post in a TOTALLY OBLIVIOUS manner. On a rare serious note- as you may well know, I find it annoying when someone posts in my forum without even pretending to look at the previous few posts, and at least acknowledging their existence in some way. I consider this equivalent to "butting in" on a conversation IRL. It's not, of course. This would only be the case when the new post was on the same topic as previous posts. However, I think the site would be more pleasant if people did their best to approximate IRL conversation- at least in the personal forums.

Oct-15-10		jessicafischerqueen: I have to admit that I'm guilty of this behavior myself, particularly when posting at our poor sainted <dom's house>. Long ago, I had to face the fact that I'm not able to comprehend most of what goes on in there. "Thread? What thread"? But who am I to question the mysterious ways of the Erse.

Oct-16-10		crawfb5: <Jess> Are you saying that a thread is stronger than its elocution?

Oct-16-10		jessicafischerqueen: ouch!

Oct-16-10		Annie K.: <chancho> I can has a "todos" with that? ;) <Jess> heh - certain forums are like gateways into parallel universes - they just have different physical laws. :p I guess, on the bottom line, what really determines whether somebody is being rude or not, is the question of whether they <mean to be> rude or not. If somebody just drops a quick line to one person in a forum and "ignores" the host and/or everybody else, that's not necessarily a big deal - they could have been in a hurry, they may have had nothing to say on the present topic, they could have just wanted to get in touch with somebody in their private forum, or a regular haunt... no problem. "Rude" begins where the behavior is repeated, pronounced, flaunted - i.e., clearly deliberate: the purpose is to "snub". It's all about the <intentions>. Although if somebody regularly - and therefore possibly deliberately - neglects to clarify their intentions, it may be justified to consider that rudeness in and of itself. This is particularly an issue where two posters have never had a direct exchange before, and so neither has anything to go on regarding the other's attitude toward them. <crawf> what <Jess> said. ;p

Oct-17-10		Annie K.: 1732 - now I can finally feel officially underrated! ;p

Oct-17-10		hms123: <Annie> For the numbers folks around here (like <Dom>), 1732 is a great number. It is not only the square root of 3 (well, sort of, 1.732^2 = 2.999824), but also the year that George Washington was born. I am probably one of the few who learned the latter fact as a function of the former one. <Jess>, of course, is the other--or she would have been had she been born in the US instead of Canada.

Oct-17-10		Open Defence: 1732 is also about the number of times I hung a knight...

Oct-17-10		Annie K.: <Deffi> ... but who's counting, right? ;) <hms> thanks for the great mnemonics. :D I intend to improve on that number, preferably substantially - after all, the score comes only from my first 4 tournaments, of which the first 3 suffered from (1) inexperience and (2&3) very little sleep previously - but that's ok, one has to start somewhere. :)

Oct-18-10		chancho: <Annie> A video of Elvis Presley from the 1969 movie: A Change Of Habit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nva7... He's singing the song: Rubberneckin'

Oct-19-10		Annie K.: <chancho> heh - thanks! :D

Oct-20-10		Open Defence: <change of name ?> not sure of the context, but if this is in reference to the photo album, I generally use my middle and family name for my music and photos, my full name is <Sangeeta Agnes Hosea>

Oct-21-10		Annie K.: <Deffi> yep, that was the context, and I thought it might be something like that. I was just curious - thanks for the clarification! :)

Oct-21-10		chancho: Lee Michaels Do You Know What I Mean? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f...

Oct-22-10		chancho: Jackson Browne - Late For The Sky http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kN-...

Oct-23-10		jessicafischerqueen: <Although if somebody regularly - and therefore possibly deliberately - neglects to clarify their intentions, it may be justified to consider that rudeness in and of itself. This is particularly an issue where two posters have never had a direct exchange before, and so neither has anything to go on regarding the other's attitude toward them.> Yes to be sure in this case. What about two people who are old friends but haven't spoken directly for some time, and they cross paths in someone else's house? For example I ran in to <Elton John> over at <hms123> forum a while back and I hadn't spoken to him for some time. I wasn't sure what to do...

Oct-23-10		Annie K.: <chancho> I didn't have time to listen to those yet, but thanks. :) <Jess> well, that would depend on whether there's any actual background for assuming that the friendship may have been called off by one or both sides in the meanwhile, I suppose. If there's no background for assuming there's actually anything wrong, then assuming so would be rather irrational. Any person's focus and interests may fluctuate - there's only so much time and energy for posting, and sometimes particular friends/forums/sites take precedence over others - some patience is required. :) If such background does exist, then a common friend's place is probably not the best place for confirming the issue, either way - you don't want to risk making your friend's house a showdown scene.

Oct-23-10		hms123: <Annie> <Jess> Sometimes neutral ground can be a good place for polite interactions, especially when the forum host (moi) is pretty good at such things.

Oct-23-10		Annie K.: <hms> heh... well, if you <know> the host would like this sort of imposition. AND if you think both sides involved are in fact interested in <polite> interaction - that's sortof the key term here, and if they are, then there's nothing much wrong to start with. But that may not be the case when we're talking about <former> friends... there may be baggage and perhaps established "incompatibility" issues involved. Sometimes it may be best to just leave bad enough alone, and go with the <most polite option available>, which is not to get into fights in friends' forums. Here the only caveat would be that if the person one finds it best not to interact with is <the forum host>, then one should have the - self-respect, if nothing else - to comment on anything they may want to comment on, somewhere else.

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