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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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Nov-06-10		Annie K.: <chancho> thanks, I finally got around to those links. :) Two of them didn't work, but the Browne song is beautiful - nice voice and intelligent lyrics (which is really the most important factor for me...) and ABBA can't be bad, ;) although anything to do with angels may be better posted to <Dom>'s forum... he probably has more use for them than I do. I think he wanted some, to make chips out of'em, or something. ;p

Nov-08-10		Domdaniel: Wolves can be tardy. Now, um, where was we ... ? <clarification on the D word> Sure thing. I meant simply that many people with CG habits -- this does not include you, and only includes me sometimes -- are escaping from the complexities of real life, into the formalized (and friendly) strictures of CG-style chess. This may involve denial, especially among those whose self-awareness and other-awareness is not too marked. Obviously not us, then. But, as I may have said, I sorta regard addiction and denial as the human condition. They sure form a large part of what people do. Umberto Eco's 'Six Walks in the Fictional Woods' is a good book about stories, wolves, woods, and the like. Your neighborhood narratologist might even approve. ;)

Nov-08-10		Annie K.: Lupus Procrastinativus? :) <Obviously not us, then.> Yup. Obviously. :D Kthx for explanashun - oops, looks like I've been spending too much time at cheezburger... again... - that matches what I was thinking along the general lines. <They sure form a large part of what people do.> True, true... they are not the better parts of the human condition though. Except for addictions like coffee and chess, of course. Those are good. Whatever <that> is. ;) <Umberto Eco's 'Six Walks in the Fictional Woods'> <Another> book recommendation?! Groan. Like, books still exist? I'm not sure I know how to operate them anymore. Last time I reached the end of a whole page, I couldn't find the <next> button anywhere... :s OK, noted. ;) Speakinuv your recommendations, I tried to find Pynchon hereabouts, at the main Israeli bookstore chain, Steimatzky. After much fuss, the only Pynchon book they managed to procure for me was 'Inherent Vice'. So, I've got that here now, and before I do anything rash, like trying to read it, I thought I'd ask you whether that's a good "first" book to read by Pynchon. If not, I can put it aside and get some books from Amazon first. :)

Nov-09-10		Domdaniel: <A> I would suggest either of two books: The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) or Inherent Vice (2009). These are also the shortest and least prone to fantastically obscure rambles. Gravity's Rainbow (1973) is a mega-meta masterpiece ... but starting there? No. The problem with Inherent Vice is that its author may come across as a dopey old hippie whose flashes of brilliance are interwoven with dope-addled goofball comedy. A bit like me, but smarter. 'Lot 49' shows that brilliance when it was young and sharp and relatively unstoned (like the proverbial turn). And on a level I couldn't even dream of emulating. After that, he got better.

Nov-09-10		Annie K.: <Dom> lessee, uh, if I've got this right, you seem to think that he is pretty good? ;) Much grass. :) So, no excuses not to start reading 'Inherent Vice' (which has the not-insignificant advantage of already being here, over 'Lot') then... sigh. OK, ok... ;s

Nov-09-10		Domdaniel: <much grass> Heh. As an apocryphal sheriff of Texarkana may have said, "They don't call it marry-jew-anna for nothin' ..." ;)

Nov-09-10		Annie K.: That's right, they don't. ;)

Nov-09-10		chancho: Jackson Browne Somebody's Baby http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umoP...

Nov-09-10		Annie K.: <chancho> thanks. Somewhat illogical lyrics... which is not to say that I don't like it. ;) OK, this blitz game just in, gotta show off...! :D [Event "FICS rated blitz game"] [Date "2010.11.10"] [White "AnnieK"] [Black "NN"] [WhiteElo "1499"] [BlackElo "1637"] [TimeControl "600+0"] [Mode "ICS"] [Result "1-0"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 a6 3. c3 d6 4. Bc4 e6 5. Qe2 b5 6. Bb3 c4 7. Bc2 Bb7 8. d4 Nf6 9. O-O Be7 10. Rd1 Qc7 11. e5 Nfd7 12. Bf4 O-O 13. Nbd2 Nc6 14. Ne4 dxe5 15. dxe5 h6 16. h3 Rad8 17. Rac1 Nc5 18. Nxc5 Bxc5 19. Qe4 g6 20. Bxh6 Rfe8 21. Qg4 Nxe5 22. Nxe5 Qxe5 23. Re1 Qf6 24. Re2 Qh8 25. Bg5 Rd5 26. Be4 Rd7 27. Bxb7 Rxb7 28. Qf3 Rd7 29. Bf6 Qh6 30. Rce1 Rd5 31. b4 Bb6 32. Qxd5 Bxf2+ 33. Rxf2 Kh7 34. Qf3 Qf8 35. Qg3 Qh6 36. Bd4 f5 37. Qc7+ Kg8 38. Qd7 Qf8 39. Rxe6 Rd8 40. Rxg6+ (Black resigns) 1-0 Position after 30...Rd5: click for larger view He was probably planning 31...Rf5. But I had 32.Qc6 for that, so I wasn't too worried. I had other things in mind. Like... if only that B weren't covering f8! Can I make it go away? Let's see... 31.b4 Bb6?? Yes! :D click for larger view 32.Qxd5! Heh.

Nov-10-10		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie K.> Polite greeting (happy now?) I suppose you <have> noticed that 31.b4?? is a horrible error, giving Black time to defend when 31.Qxd5! at once would win outright (if 31...exd5 32.Rxe8+ Bf8 33.Be7 and Black is hopelessly lost). You're just using this as a test to see if anyone actually ever looks at the games you post. Right?

Nov-10-10		Annie K.: <SwitchingQuylthulg: <<Annie K.> Polite greeting (happy now?)>> Hello. As much as usual. Are you? :) I did in fact consider playing QxR on move 31 already, with 33.Be7 and all - <before> I decided to try b4 first. That line takes too much calculation <for blitz>. After, say, 33...f5, both K and Q <may> survive the immediate danger - I didn't have time to make sure they wouldn't. And if they do... while either OTB or in corr one would be happy to play RRB vs Q, in blitz it's much easier to get your pieces uncoordinated for a move or two, while trying to realign them for attack - and in that moment, even the lone Q is dangerous. As you may have noticed, my opponent was rated about 150 higher - this, for one thing, means he wasn't going to resign just because I had the theoretical advantage (as indeed he didn't after 32.Qxd5 either)... but for another thing, it also means he thought he could take his time - and <that> is what made 31.b4 worth a try. ;)

Nov-10-10		SwitchingQuylthulg: A FICS regular who still thinks of 10 0 as "blitz"? I'm astonished.

Nov-10-10		Annie K.: 'Astonished' isn't 'happy'. ;) 10 0 counts for something called a "blitz rating". Games from 15 0 and above count for something called a "standard rating". Call me literal. :p Thanks for looking at the game. :)

Nov-10-10		SwitchingQuylthulg: <literal: 10 0 counts for something called a "blitz rating".> You have a point, I guess. I just have a different mindset - to me, 3 0 is blitz, 5 0 is rapid, 10 0 is standard, 15 0 is correspondence and 604800 259200 is blitz again because I'll be too lazy to analyse.

Nov-10-10		Annie K.: <SwitchingQuylthulg: <literal: [...]>> Oh, we have something in common! How nice! =)

Nov-10-10		brankat: The scene: A little kitten is sitting in front of TV playing video games. The mother cat is standing behind, looking on. Mother: "Kids these days have everything. When I was Your age, and wanted entertainment, I chased my tail." :-)

Nov-11-10		Annie K.: <brankat> hey there! Heh - that could make a pretty cute LOL (@cheezburger), if somebody will post a suitable pic sometime. :) Calling <dakkie> - note the "erosion" of the word 'picture' into 'pic', now that it's become a really common term. Iz hao language workz. ;)

Nov-11-10		Domdaniel: <Q/thulg> is technically right, but I think b4 was a good try. Always nice to prod one's opponent in the general direction of errors, especially ones that allow flashy wins. In the matter of time controls, anything faster than 90 mins/game is blitz, and I take the Botvinnik line on blitz. Pixies? Pixilated pixies? It's only a pic, sure ...

Nov-11-10		Open Defence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS-D...

Nov-11-10		Annie K.: <Deffi> thanks, I'll check that out more closely when I get home - can't make out the lyrics on my small IPhone screen (and can't zoom the YouTube app), and can't access YT from my work comp* (the whole domain is blocked for everybody). :) <Dom> remind me what Botvinnik thought about blitz? * BTW, I note that Americans tend to abbreviate 'computer' to 'comp', while Europeans more often go for 'puter'. I'm with the Americans on this one... shorter. ;)

Nov-11-10		Domdaniel: Botvinnik story, from 1960s, apocryphal, goes: Young Master: Dr Botvinnik, you would do me the honour of playing one game? At blitz? Botvinnik: Young man, I have not played blitz in forty years. (I think he also said it rotted the brain, led to over-dependence on ill-formed intuitions, and made hair sprout from your palms ... or maybe, like me, he just wasn't any good at it.)

Nov-11-10		crawfb5: <Annie> Here's another version of it with the lyrics onscreen, but I don't think it's going to help...unless you can read what I assume is Hindi... :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5GF...

Nov-11-10		Annie K.: <Dom> thanks. Glad to see you've recovered. ;) <craw> heh... thanks for trying. :) I'm home now, so I can see that in <Deffi>'s version the text (while English, as I thought it was) is not lyrics. :( <Deffi> could you maybe summarize what the song is about please? :)

Nov-11-10		dakgootje: There was a translation at Deffi's link actually, page 2 of the comments: Yaadon Mein Jis Ki Kisi Ka Naam Hai / When there is some name that you have memories of Sapno Ke Jaise Us Ki Har Shaam Hai / every evening is like a dream about that person Koi To Ho Jise Apna Dil.. Dijiye / Give your heart to someone Phir Dekhiye… / and then see... Khwab Bhun.. Yeh Zara / Build a dream... Geet Sun.. Yeh Zara / Listen to this song... Phool Chun.. Yeh Zara... / Pick these flowers... Phir Dekhiye… / And then see... Hoton Pe Jis Ke Koi To Geet Hai / When there is a song on your lips Woh Haare Bhi To Us Ki Hi Jeet Hai / Even if you loose you win Dil Mein Jo.. Geet Hai Gun Guna.. Lijiye / Sing the song that is in your heart Phir Dekhiye... / and then see... <><> Interestingly, online translators are completely at a loss.

Nov-11-10		Annie K.: Thanks <dakkie>! :) Interesting - I like it. A cultural fracture point though... picking flowers. Here, we <look> at the flowers - and leave them alone. This is a semi-arid country; flowers are national treasures, to be shared and not harmed. Picking them would be a huge social faux pas, the behavior of small children whose parents fail their duties as educators (the kids will learn better from their peers anyway, once they start kindergarten - the 'fail' mark here goes entirely to the parents, if they don't teach the kid better first time s/he tries to pick a flower) and clueless new immigrants, who will most likely be told off for it. :p Heh. I couldn't agree more with this practice though... I visited Romania one summer in the nineties, and went hiking with friends. They innocently suggested I pick some flowers to take home. Umm... I immediately laid down the law about there being no flower-picking in my presence. So, they thought I was nuts (that's not news, anyway...) but they humored me. ;)

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