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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-21-11		Annie K.: s'too much eff

Feb-21-11		Domdaniel: eff? nah, that's just what anticrastinators think is the only plausible reason for inactivity ... but I'm sure there are millions more which could be listed ... but that's eff

Feb-21-11		Annie K.: <anticrastinators> not sure it has to be a philosophical stance... you don't rilly hafta be pro or anti; you just, yanno, crastinate. It could also be more a matter of being a pro, as opposed to amateur, crastinator. =)

Feb-21-11		Domdaniel: I'd wondered, idly, as one does, about that. Thought mebbe a crastinator was rilly a species of procrastinator who didn't care to broadcast its proclivities. A closet (pro)crastinator, or what used to be called a sneaking regarder. We could split the differ ... settle on noncrastinator, mebbe? As a term for those odd people who do things? Gosh, I feel worn out now.

Feb-21-11		Annie K.: :) I completely undersit

Feb-22-11		Domdaniel: Don't wanna be underlying, huh? I'm underprone to that m'self.

Feb-22-11		tpstar: The opposite of procrastinate is concrastinate. :p I also loved Agatha Christie and Hercule Poirot - brilliant storytelling, whereas Miss Marple's mysteries were a tad dotty.

Feb-22-11		Domdaniel: Three of my favorite fictional characters are Belgian: Nicolas Boreas (film director in Aldiss's 'Barefoot in the Head'), plus Poirot and Hubertus Bigend (who have their own Wiki pages so I don't need to gloss them). In RL? Hmmm. Was Magritte in RL? Never really looked that way. They should simply divorce, of course. Belgians, I mean.

Feb-22-11		tpstar: Monty Python's Flying Circus on Belgians: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19fc...

Feb-22-11		hms123: <Dom> I lived in Belgium for a while in 1986. It was the strangest experience. If you were in the Flemish part, the people at the train station would tell you they never heard of Lieges--they would only acknowledge the Flemish name of Luik. It was the same in the French part--they never heard of Mechelen (Malines) or Antwerp (Anvers). The language line is very real and very odd. You cross it at your peril.

Feb-22-11		Domdaniel: <hms> Jinx. I wuz gonna say something about that, but thought I'd droned on too much already. But Belgium was the first continental European country I spent any time in ... about three weeks, back in, gulp, 1971 ... mostly up north. And I got really sick of shopkeepers pretending not to understand my schoolboy French, even in relatively sophisticated burgs like Ostende/Oostend. Similar phenomena turn up elsewhere, of course - there are towns in Ireland with distinct Anglo and Gaelic names, sometimes both in use. But I've rarely witnessed, outside Belge, the sheer dogged determination to deny that the enemy tongue even exists. Luik Halle, it does, Damme. How those guys ever managed to get news from Ghent to Aix is beyond me. Some equine-based proto-nutterweb, apparently.

Feb-22-11		dakgootje: I've barely ever been in Belgium - and never in Ireland for that matter. I seem to avoid all interesting geographical places :D

Feb-22-11		Domdaniel: <dak> Plenty of time for that. I've never got around to the southern bits of the northern hemisphere (Spain, Italy, Egypt, California, Israel, India) never mind the mythical lands beyond the equator. The furthest south I've been is the middle of France, and that was too hot already. Might you have been in Belgium and not noticed? Easily happens in the Beneluxury of Schengen ... you cross over de brug and suddenly they're throwing Vlaams at you in a strange accent.

Feb-22-11		dakgootje: Oh yes, I've undoubtedly driven through several times. Just never stayed for a while and taken my time. Been in Spain and Italy though! And this summer the plans are Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia with a couple of friends. Or more specifically, the plans are Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius and St. Petersburg. Just a couple of days each - covering a lot of ground in a short amount of time :) If you've got any recommendations - enlighten me, for my knowledge as of yet is very limited :)

Feb-22-11		Annie K.: <Tony> Heh - and thanks for that Monty Python link. :) The pro-con thing also crossed my mind, but I didn't have the energy to get into the whole subject of cons and pros, and politicians. Oops, I meant pro cons. ;p <Dom> re.: undersit - you got the nuance of it. :D Yes, I'm familiar with the Belgian business, incidentally - had a friend there (in Antwerp) who told me all about it. Just mentioned in answer to your mail, too. ;) I've been around Yurp some. ;) Romania (well, of course...), Hungary (very little, rilly, just one full day, and some scattered hours passing through), Slovakia (half a year once, plus two weeks at a time for quite a few consequent years ('cuz my ex-bf was studying there at the time), and short visits to: Turkey, Italy (twice, different parts), Germany, Austria, and the Czech. Oh, and London, last year. Apart from that, my only other trip abroad was a week in New York, unless I'm forgetting something. ;s And I have another weekend in Rome coming up next month, ackshly, I mentioned that a while back here. :)

Feb-22-11		Thanh Phan: Hello! Find a video and hopes like, CC Translate captions should work; http://youtu.be/yPjA2P1rNoQ ~ The Legend of Seven Cutter Areas where they respond with "You're not from around here, no speak the language so sorry!" are not very common, and provide frustrate. lol Update on what I use some times, the Google Translator Toolkit; http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009... Works good my think. ~Take care

Feb-24-11		Domdaniel: <Annie> Know what I did today? (Well, no, obviously ... not even my personal stalker knows about the things I did today ... file it under 'rhetorical', OK?) So, guess what I did today? I got an email from an artist in Germany, a guy I don't know who has a book of photographs coming out, and was wondering if I could help. And I replied. I used to ignore such things, almost on principle, in the past. But today I dashed off a cheery note. Not actually offering to do anything, of course. But I replied. Am I becoming human yet?

Feb-24-11		Domdaniel: I would also, natch, be thrilled to get your impression of the Short game. Is it worth preserving in database form? Is it a miserable French being crushed, a half-decent effort under difficult conditions, or just the tale of a missed opportunity and some delusional maneuvers? Opinions always welcome. I used to give simuls once, yanno ... if you count ten simultaneous games against club newcomers, or three games blindfold if I was showing off. The lesson I learned was that weaker players beat themselves if left to their own devices. It seems to work similarly at more exalted levels. Nice guy, Nigel. Most definitely not riffraff, and an uncommonly good chessplayer.

Feb-24-11		Annie K.: <Dom> it's progress. ;) I'm amazed, in fact. Answering solicitations... hmm, isn't that even overdoing it a bit? :p OK, you do know that if you get an email from a nice lady in... Uganda, I think it was... some politician's widow, who needs to transfer her money out of the country. Don't give her your bank account details, ok? ;) 'The way things are going' (as somebody sed)... Oh and yes, submit the game to the database here, sure. :)

Feb-24-11		Domdaniel: It's Magna Minity day in Ireland. We celebrate by tearing up copies of Magna Carta, forgiving our enemies, and, um ... well, what happens next is that the clocks strike midnight, Magna Minity ends, and it turns ugly again. Sich is life. Sic.

Feb-24-11		OhioChessFan: <Dom: So, guess what I did today? I got an email from an artist in Germany, a guy I don't know who has a book of photographs coming out, and was wondering if I could help.> Be ready for an upcoming appeal for a very small investment in a self published book.

Feb-24-11		Domdaniel: <Ohio> - <an upcoming appeal for a very small investment > Nah, I don't do investments. Couldn't even if I wanted to. Even my platinum plated Rooks are with the pawnbroker ("No sir, this is a pawnbroker ... you'll find a rook broker next door...") What these email artists want from me is publicity. If I do the publicity, other folk do the investing.

Feb-24-11		Annie K.: <Ohio> can't remember if you've posted here before or not. Anyway, welcome. :) <Dom> What Ohio said, btw - I think I vaguely heard about something like this being one of the running scams, too. <Magna Minity ends, and it turns ugly again> Heh. I kinda wish. :p As I said, it's annoying to post in places where I can't see part of the kibitzing. And I won't take the creature off ignore, else he'll be posting here next, and I. Am. So. Not. Interested. Did I mention you are just too darn nice? I did. ;)

Feb-25-11		Domdaniel: <Annie> Heh. 'Contrary' might be a better adjective than 'nice', but I 'preciate the thought. All G-d's creatures, aren't we? Though He must have had a bad day at the office on certain occasions. Anyhoo ... the email thing is not a scam. It's just one of the perils of arts journalism ... a lot of incoming miscellaneous bumf, some via professional PR types, some heartfelt appeals from a writer/artist/whatever, all hoping to be writ about. I used to ignore the vast majority. The one I replied to was clearly genuine, and gave me the name of the real person who'd given him my contact details. All very above board. But I had to tell him I was no longer working for Rupert's Evil Empire, so couldn't help in that way. Also, nobody with any experience of these matters would imagine that a critic/journo would pay for a book. We tend to expect them to be free. Maybe I've just started networking? The way people do? Ironic, in a way, that I do so much determined ignoring in RL, and so little of it here in the parallel universe.

Feb-25-11		Annie K.: Yeah. Well, "ironic" is one way of putting it. :p Oh well - can't think of anything to comment on your game btw, what with others having gone over it with engines already. And my own former game I remembered in this line turns out to have been (1) only <similar> and (2) inconclusive.

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