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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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Nov-11-10		crawfb5: <Annie> Even in parts of the US where it is not at all arid, in state and national parks it is expected of visitors to leave the local flora undisturbed. Of course that is not always the case, as some visitors are no better than children, but the general rule is <take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints>.

Nov-11-10		Annie K.: <craw> good to hear that. :) Ah, <leave>... the littering situation is less good here. Not very bad to be sure, most people do try to leave no garbage behind, and there's more littering in the cities than in the campgrounds and what passes for national parks, but not quite as deeply ingrained as "we don't pick the flowers".

Nov-12-10		brankat: <Annie K_ <DomD> Regarding Botvinnik's attitude towards blitz, these are the versions I had seen in Chess related Quotes: -- Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929. – Mikhail Botvinnik -- Young man, remember this: I've never played chess for pleasure (fun). – Mikhail Botvinnik (on having it suggested to him in his latter years, that he play blitz chess for fun).

Nov-12-10		dakgootje: The no flower picking-rules should be similar here although it is hard to imagine sometimes. We've got this lovely little apple tree in the front garden. This because the front garden is perhaps 2-3 meters wide and if you combine that with a fairly large window - then people will tend to look in while walking by. The tree is perhaps 3 meters tall so its crown starts just below the line of sight. So far so good. During the 7+ years that we've lived here we have had perhaps half a dozen apples. A couple fell on the ground and were rotten before you could say Eyjafjallajökull. The others on the other hand were strangely gone, just when they looked that they had matured. I would not want to say that they were stolen, it is just odd. A similar amount of 'odd' that sometimes a couple of flowers just <disappear> from the front garden. Ah well, whaddaya gonna do bouddit

Nov-12-10		Open Defence: there is a transliteration here http://bp0.blogger.com/_BK1UUIu3ulI...

Nov-12-10		Open Defence: from this link http://in.answers.yahoo.com/questio... <Phir dekhiye (then see...) Aankhon Mein Jis Ke Koi To Khwab Hai (the one who has some or other dream in his eyes) Khush Tha Wahin Jo Thoda Betaab Hai (the one who is anxious was happy earlier) Zindagi Mein Koi Arzoo Kijiye (dream about something in Life) Phir Dekhiye (then see...) Hoton Pe Jis Ke Koi To Geet Hai (the one who has some song on his lips) Woh Haare Bhi To Us Ki Hi Jeet Hai (he finds victory even if he loses) Dil Mein Jo Geet Hai Gun Guna Lijiye (whatever is there in ur heart, sing that song) Phir Dekhiye (then see...) Yaadon Mein Jis Ke Kisi Ka Naam Hai (the one who has someone's name in his thoughts) Sapno Ke Jaise Us Ki Har Sham Hai (all his evenings are like dreams) Koi To Aaj Use Apna Dil Dijiye (somebody give him your heart today) Phir Dekhiye ( then see..) Khwab Bhun Yeh Zara Geet Sun Yeh Zara (make up dome dreams, listen to this song) Phool Chun Yeh Zara (pick up these flowers) Phir Dekhiye (then see...)>

Nov-12-10		Open Defence: <Annie> that song is from a movie about a rock band and towards the end one of the members dies, this is the last song at the end of the movie and is about how one should balance one's ambitions and desire's with taking the time to experience the joys of life..

Nov-12-10		dakgootje: That is fairly different from the translation I copy-pasted from those youtube-comments. Do you know why online translators [like google translate etc.] could not translate it? I used a couple of different lyrics [with spelling differences etc] but they did not really have succes with any of them.

Nov-12-10		Open Defence: <dakkie> what you posted was roughly an accurate translation but with songs there is a deeper meaning, what I posted was a very literal translation to help the reader form their own interpretation

Nov-12-10		Annie K.: <chancho> since several subtler/humorous hints have gone unheeded, I am going to put this in plain English now: please stop posting Xtian or any other religious stuff in my forum. I don't want that sort of thing here. Sorry. <brankat> thanks for the quotes. :) Never played chess for fun? Hmm, his loss, it would seem. :s <dakkie> that's too bad. :( As usual, the worst thing about thieves and vandals is not the actual damage they cause, but the frustration and disappointment in your fellow humans they make you feel. <Deffi> thanks very much! It's a beautiful song, that (apart from the picking of flowers - and/or nits, as the case may be) ;) I completely agree with. :)

Nov-12-10		chancho: <Annie> Sorry about that. I'll delete it.

Nov-12-10		Annie K.: Today's tournament game was a 4-hour loss against a 2307 opponent, that I decided not to post, not because it's a loss, but because the play was inferior by both sides. :\ The tournament director already told me that the opponent I have been assigned for next Friday hadn't shown up for the last two rounds, and as far as he (the TD) is concerned, I would be awarded the forfeit next week even if I didn't show up either. I decided to be there anyway, just in case the guy unexpectedly reappears, but there most likely won't be a game to report.

Nov-12-10		Annie K.: <chancho> thanks. :)

Nov-13-10		chancho: <Annie> I wasn't trying to flood your forum with religious music. It did not even occur to me (it should have) that it was a religious song. I remembered the song as one that went to number #1 on the billboard 100 back in 1970. Anyway, I'll avoid posting anything that may even hint as religion on your forum. :-)

Nov-13-10		Open Defence: <...Hagrid looked around his cottage, it was time to walk the Brontosaurus again. "Must keep an eye out for ole Freddie Flintstone," he thought. "He's an evil one he is, with his side kick Rubble, slaughtering these meek defenseless Brontosaurs for steaks" "Hallo there Hagrid!" came a familiar voice. "Well bless my soul, it's Harry Potter" cried Hagrid, pleasantly surprised. So there was a second orb of time! There had to be and Harry had found one!>

Nov-13-10		Annie K.: <chancho> I was in a pretty foul mood yesterday, sorry about that. And thanks again. :) <Deffi> so, how about writing a bit for the Moscow page yourself? ;)

Nov-13-10		Open Defence: heh! i might write something over there, though that was Allergictoturtles' turf so to speak heh!

Nov-13-10		Annie K.: Nah. If anything, it was yoozum's turf long before ATT's... but it was always best when there was a variety of talent around. :)

Nov-13-10		Open Defence: aah for some reason i only got to the page when ATT was writing i think.. 2005 was a very fuzzy year for me...

Nov-13-10		Annie K.: <Deffi> reading that forum from start to end is a fun way to spend some time, if you ever have a free afternoon. Much good stuff there. :)

Nov-14-10		malthrope: The current <ChessBookie> standings updated as of Sun Nov 14, 05:38. Moving down the betting ladder a tad we find... <36. malthrope 1,392 37. Annie K. 1,375> Well, would you just look at that? o_O If I didn't know better one might begin to think it was actually <planned!> ?! ~lol~ My Best Always, - Mal PS: Annie - many thanks for your help & assistance and most importantly your friendship. :XD Mal's current 'Cee-Gee' membership info: <chessgames.com full member » CHESSGAMES PREMIUM MEMBERS PAGE » Premium Membership Help Page Your membership expires on Jan-29-2013> Now, I bloody well have got a lot of WRITING to DO! :P

Nov-14-10		Annie K.: <Mal> you're very welcome. :) I keep forgetting to place bets, so the Bookie game is a now-and-then thing these days. Have fun with the writing! =)

Nov-14-10		malthrope: <Annie K.: <Mal> you're very welcome. :)> I just wanted to express it publicity (Jess told me). :) <I keep forgetting to place bets, so the Bookie game is a now-and-then thing these days.> Me too! ;) My <ChessBookie> betting also is 'half-hazard' at best since I can fall asleep at the drop of a dime! ~lol~ <Have fun with the writing! =)> I sure will! Have a ton of stuff to say and soon now I'll write all about it for as long as I possibly can! :^) All the Best, Your indebted friend, - Mal

Nov-15-10		chancho: Wildfire- Michael Martin Murphey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc3O...

Nov-15-10		Domdaniel: <Annie> One night you don't show up in the House of the Addled Frogs, and I miss you already. And some of the recent threads would even interest you, I hazard. I guess people need their extracurricular lives. A person could go crazy in here, and (almost) nobody would notice the difference. Do you, btw, have any thoughts on Iain Banks's 'Culture' novels? I just got the new one, 'Surface Detail'. Along with the new book by Ian McDonald, the least Eurocentric European (or American) of SF writers. His previous books (Cyberabad Days, River of Gods, Brasyl) have a deep, rich, loamy texture, set in the ancient cultures of India and Amazonia, mixing the futuristic nano-puter stuff with mythology and multiple perspectives. The new one takes him to Turkey. Istanbul, Queen of Cities ... Finally, there's 'How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe', by Charles Yu. I heard - orally, in RL - that it was creating ripples in the blogosphere. Nicely meta title with echoes of Douglas Adams (and Sheckley...) and the style seems like Doug Coupland, but less facile. Further reports will follow. My 'work' reading is, of all things, a biography of George Washington. I can think of nothing that the world is less in need of, unless it's a spanking by Pogo to deflate its more hubristic elements. I know, I shifted worlds. Comes with the territory. I think I should get back to writing SF. SF George Washington, even. Pynchon -- in 'Mason & Dixon' -- had Colonel Washington, circa 1760, smoking hemp and finding hidden Chinese messages deep in the Ohio wilderness ...

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