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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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Feb-06-11		Domdaniel: <Annie> Sorry to bore you again with the retard question, but you has experience in the area. Of dealing firmly with morons, I mean. I'm so used to being able to see everything that happens that I'm still uncomfortable with making bits invisible. The Lemming was virulent enough to stalk me. I know that a couple of my random comments on game pages have had vicious sneers appended, but I haven't got around to checking how many. The broader thing is that 'most people we know' either ignore him already or pay no attention. But there are a lot of people who don't 'know' me. Should I do it by the book, check for stalking, report instances to admin? Or just hope he goes away? Anywhere with a cliff is good.

Feb-06-11		Annie K.: Heh... <I'm so used to being able to see everything that happens that I'm still uncomfortable with making bits invisible.> Don't try to fight your curiosity. :) Take thee to the kibitz search, and find out what you've "missed". Do keep in mind that site members <do> know who you are, and there's absolutely no need to defend yourself - and there would be no need either way; even if somebody doesn't know you, to any outside viewer, the party spewing venom will naturally be the one to register negatively. Hatred is ugly. Don't sweat it. :) You can report a few instances if you feel like it. Most likely, others already did. So just catch up. Any time you feel a need to. The boredom of it will soon cure you of the need. ;)

Feb-06-11		jessicafischerqueen: Thanks <Annie>! To know you are on board with this project makes me feel considerably safer. One of the reasons for this is your propensity to be honest about what you know- the opposite of most people. Another, like I said, is that your accent closely matches that of Russian native speakers I've heard online. <Dom> Annie is right- I noticed that one of those pesky comments about you on a game page had been removed by the administrators yesterday, which means someone blew the whistle on it- presumably for being "off topic" and "attacking a fellow user." More importantly, Annie is also right about how such posts "appear" to the punter who has no knowledge of either of you. The one who employs rude and aggressive insults is the one who comes off looking terrible- without doubt.

Feb-07-11		Domdaniel: <Annie, Jess> Thanks, folks. I feel better about it today. And yes, I know whistles have been blown more than once. I will now try to stick with the original idea. To quote Viv Stanshall, it was "Roger smells. We shan't mention him again".

Feb-07-11		dakgootje: hey domd - where did you see the analysing chucky? Can't find no link nowhere

Feb-07-11		Domdaniel: <dak> Try this: http://www.livestream.com/gibchess/... First half is Gawain Jones, with Ivanchuk arriving about 30 mins in. If it works, you should be able to scroll down to thumbnails of all the analysis vids from Gib.

Feb-07-11		Domdaniel: <dak> Hope that works. It seems to direct me to the right spot, anyhoo. I can't stop watching the man. Beautiful moment #1: he arrives, politely asks if he may look at the screen, and becomes utterly absorbed in other people's games ... with which he seems more familiar than the official commentator. Beautiful moment #2: he demonstrates a line where Black plays c4 and White ends up with his Queen on a8. Something like "Qc2, I have b3, he cannot take my Bishop, tactical reason. I will take, and take, and take the Rook..." flashing out moves onscreen as he talks. When he arrives at the final position he stares at it for a few seconds, laughs, and says "OK. I am losing. So tactic not so good". In fact Fritz tells me he's winning there, as he'd certainly have seen if the line was played. After Black castles the White Queen on a8 looks to be in trouble, but Qb8! sorts everything out for him. Isn't he brilliant, though? OMG, I'm turning into a fan. Help. Perhaps if we formed The Godlike Genius of Ivanchuk Appreciation Society ... no 'rooting', no 'Chucky', no blatherskite. Might be a tad more dignified. It's very weird, but in live games I often know what he's going to play. More so than with average elite types. Of course he sees 13,000 times as much as me, and faster, but I feel his approach to chess is just right, somehow. Shche ne vmerla Ukrayiny. On a related ish, I'm a tad disappointed by Simon Williams. I love his play, he's a wizard in the French and Dutch, and he can talk, and analyse. But it's not enough. One hears of football commentators who spend hours memorizing team-sheets, researching background details, as well as being experts on the game. All so they can say things like "A clever pass from Ovseidchuk there, but he was already famous for that as a teenager playing for a tractor factory in Kiev. And look, his fellow Slav, Penaltikov, from a village in Siberia where his family trapped lemmings, has read his mind, and ... GOOAALL!" That kinda thing. I hear. TV newsreaders also check every name beforehand. Part of the job. Is it too much to ask chess commentators to do research, pronounce names more accurately, and know who's who? The English are famously insular, of course, but chess isn't all pawn islands. Now that live online commentary is the norm, we should expect high standards.

Feb-07-11		dakgootje: Thanks sir! Absolutely terrific! He does seem to play very natural. Got that feeling with Adams as well sometimes. Didn't know there were those broadcasts. Oh, if only I had ten times my spare time - still it would not be enough :P

Feb-07-11		Domdaniel: <dak> Yeah, that's the trouble with life ... the x-axis, the y-axis and even the z-axis are all way too short. We need extra dimensions.

Feb-07-11		dakgootje: Certainly. Dem axis be that way cos they be evil. :( I hatez dem, speshully when wheelied by maniacs and murdererers.

Feb-07-11		dakgootje: Today is my personal Talk like an Idiot-day. I have let no-one else know.

Feb-07-11		Domdaniel: <dak> That's cool. Also, worth it for the shining radiance of the other 364. We all need our downtime. I like to hide out in the lost decade of the 20th century -- the ten years that passed between 1989 and 1990, when everyone was too far out of it to keep count. Time travel courtesy of Time Warner Time.

Feb-07-11		Domdaniel: <Annie> I won't ask, yet, how you're doing with the Frozen Chosen, chez Chabon. I can wait. Heh. But I've been thinking about the other frozen chosen, living in our world in an arc from Minnesota to Quebec -- a cultural backdrop which produced Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, and the Coen brothers, to name but three and a half. Is it something in the ice? Something in the absence of desert and middle Eastern tribal responses? No question, but going the Hebraic route 'home' was an atavistic disaster. The north country seems superior, though much colder.

Feb-07-11		dakgootje: <how you're doing with the Frozen Chosen> Is she watching all films by Walt Disney?

Feb-07-11		Domdaniel: Like, erm, Don't Cryo for me Argentina and Arsenic and Old Glacier ... or Ice Cream and Cream Again and Glacé Come Home ...?

Feb-07-11		Annie K.: <Dom> say... btw, that one we're not mentioning - why did you seem to suppose he's English, anyway? I rather tended to think he was just another Murrican barbarian. The Beatles <were>, ackshly, more popular Over There than even at home, yanno? :) Another thing - I'm starting to think the admins may have done some permanent cleaning, as no further filth seems to be forthspewing from those quarters. Just sayin', as I seem to be sayin' a lot recently. And ping, too. ;) Oh, <dakkie>, you seem to be indicating that you have recently been remiss in your duties as Illustrious Frogspawn Lurker? ;(

Feb-07-11		Annie K.: <the ten years that passed between 1989 and 1990, when everyone was too far out of it to keep count.> I remember that year, as a particularly busy one... hmmm, so that's why! <Frozen Chosen> ya gotta be kidding, dear. I haven't even had any time for blitz lately! :p But hey, speaking of reading lists, remember that 'Ender's Game' novel that had been recommended to you be several of us...? ;)

Feb-07-11		Domdaniel: <A> Mucho English slang, dialect, spelling, eg 'luv', 'mate' etc. Coulda been wannabe Liverpudlian, but I thought not. A certain quality, part-chippiness, part-chav, seemed present too. Not that I did a close textual analysis or nothin'. Murrican aggro is different. It acts entitled to punch you. This one seemed damaged, and not in a nice way. Just saying. It is true that there are many intestines in the world, and some have an unpleasant orifice on each end. I was wondering if I'd be able to pinpoint which part of England, ackshully. From the p-p-pronunciation ... give p's a chance ... usw.

Feb-07-11		Domdaniel: <Annie> Actually, the stalker struck again within the last hour or so. It's amusing, in a way -- I quoted, somewhere, a line that Nigel used a coupla years ago about "not being riffraff", and our genius chum has taken the opposite meaning. See Kosintseva game from Gib. It's the third time - that I know of - that it's accused me of calling Nigel riff-raff and having something against him. Subliterate defender of Short people? Sounds English. And a stalker.

Feb-07-11		Annie K.: A-ha... innaresting. You may be right, at that. Thanks. :)

Feb-07-11		Annie K.: Ah well. It won't last, to be sure. Too bad the administrative activity has slowed to a crawl recently.

Feb-07-11		Domdaniel: There are two such. Also Bloodgood. I've had enough. Whistle or email (which could take years...)?

Feb-07-11		Annie K.: Email seems to be faster, still. Nothing wrong with "both" as an answer, either.

Feb-07-11		Domdaniel: I done a whistle to start wiv. There is a particularly disturbing aspect to the latest outbreak, which should be obvious to you. It was something I'd hoped wouldn't happen, though naturally stalkers know how to follow clues. I can see how this kind of thing can be psychologically disturbing for many people ... knowing you've become somebody's pet obsession, and never knowing how far they might go. I've requested editing rights over my game pages. He used my name in that last one, and that's too much. [Angry smiley] Thanx for support, sweet.

Feb-07-11		Annie K.: Sure. :) Trolls are a dime a dozen, but most don't quite manage to put up such a convincing show of actual psychosis. Still, I'd say it's just so much wind, given the commercial quantities of frustration in the bluster.

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