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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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Mar-12-11		Annie K.: <Dom: <A couple of split-the-difference ideas came to mind. One was that I had read or heard instructive material for some sub-group of English speakers, who wouldn't be able to reproduce an unstressed 'o' unless they were told it was really an 'a'. You're right, it's idiotic.>> Technically yes, but also perfectly valid. :) And it's really exactly the same issue as your other point. I'm not sure why you see them as two different things? They are the two sides (POV's) of the same coin. The central theme is 'expectedness' - also the same thing I mentioned just now WRT the 'd' in 'Rashid' to <Jess>. AKA, 'attention'. Thing is, we can only pay attention to so many details at once. The more attentive we are to various nuances, in various fields, the more we need the freedom from the need to pay attention to anything else. In mathematical terminology, the more factors we see as <variables>, the more we need other factors to remain <constants>, or we would be overwhelmed by the general uncertainty of life, the universe, and everything. ;) That's why it's the thankless job of our subconscious to buffer us from actually needing to consciously process any "constant" data: background noises, the arts of walking and breathing, etc. - and the perception of familiar letters as the phonemes we usually associate them with.

Mar-12-11		Annie K.: Of course, I'm not inventing the wheel on this one - and fear of getting overwhelmed with information is also at the core of all fears of the unknown and different, at that (and the reason why "computer meltdown" scenes in SF are so "funny"...) - not even reinventing the wheel in this case. Ackshly, Terry Pratchett, whom we've just been discussing over at <Once>'s forum, has a character based on this observation: the <Death of the Discworld>, a large, "living" skeleton, who is generally invisible - not through anything he does, or any special powers... it's just that "people simply don't see him, because they don't expect to". :D Pratchett exaggerates - a little - that's what he does, he's a satirist - but he's working with a valid principle. :) BTW, a very likable character* there: (* even though HE SPEAKS IN CAPS.) <Ipslore relaxed a little. In a voice that was nearly normal, he said: 'I don't regret it, you know. I would do it all again. Children are our hope for the future.' THERE IS NO HOPE FOR THE FUTURE, said Death. 'What does it contain, then?' ME. 'Besides you I mean!' Death gave him a puzzled look. I'M SORRY? The storm reached its howling peak overhead. A seagull went past backwards. 'I meant,' said Ipslore, bitterly, 'what is there in this world that makes living worth while?' Death thought about it. CATS, he said eventually, CATS ARE NICE. 'Curse you!' MANY HAVE, said Death, evenly.> Heh.

Mar-12-11		Domdaniel: <Annie> It has only sometimes been the field of the anarchist and free-thinker, and even those two don't always coincide. Every human activity that I'm aware of has fashions - though some people are put off by the superficial connotations of that word, and prefer to call them trends, patterns, tropisms, temporal field displacements, usw. In addition to fashions (which change over time, and may be internally or externally driven) there are also styles (schools, genres, subgenres, etc) which can coexist at the same time while looking forward in different directions.

Mar-12-11		Thanh Phan: <Annie K> Many thanks on thoughts of language also book <Death of the Discworld>, I might try gather for a read. <Annie K> also <Domdaniel>, Of interest the book "Rusalka" transfers more easy into English from Russian then "Babel-17". My think are one made first in Russian while other made first in English? <who wouldn't be able to reproduce an unstressed 'o' unless they were told it was really an 'a'.> Self are one who would benefit from more R also S saying guides, lol

Mar-12-11		Annie K.: <Thanh> - The 'Death of the Discworld' is not a book title, he's a character that appears in several of the books in Terry Pratchett's 'Discworld' series. :) 'Mort', 'Sourcery', 'Reaper Man' and 'Soul Music' are some titles he features in. <Dom> we seem to be having a <state-the-obvious> contest? ;) OK, so I started it. :p Heh. Did you, by any chance, see the email I sent you about the coding screwup in your profile? Cuz it's still screwed up. Just saying. :)

Mar-12-11		Thanh Phan: <Annie K> See now the mistake about book! Will try new search for the books in Terry Pratchett's 'Discworld' series. :)Many thanks

Mar-12-11		Domdaniel: <Annie> - < Did you, by any chance, see the email I sent you about the coding screwup in your profile?> Oops. No, ackshully. A strictly temporary email avoidance thing. I'd noticed the coding screwup, but assumed it had something to do with this not-fully-broken-in computer. Similar errors turn up elsewhere, but only some of the time. I can live with a certain amount of noise before feeling the need to do something. Probably quite a lot of noise, by most standards. But I plan to look at my email fairly soon. ;)

Mar-12-11		Annie K.: Heh. Yanno, sweet, if you keep annoying me, one of these days I'll... I'll... hmmm. I know! I'll <VISIT> you, that's what! So watch it. :p

Mar-12-11		Domdaniel: Annoyance is not actually intended, as Shirley Yanno. But if it has been inadvertently caused, or if you regard intentions as meaningless when set against actions, or even inactions, then one apologizes, of course. I was going to ask, whatever makes you think I respond to doorbells with any more alacrity than other things, but then I remembered that you know precisely which window to put a brick through. I'll watch it. PS. The traditional <:)> smiley and its variants are fine and dandy, but I reckon there's something altogether too corporeal - bodily and visceral, even - about this biz of signing off with <:p> ... I mean, "colon pee" ...?? PS2. The line about something "being there, buffering, to protect us" was stolen from Pynchon. I don't come up with such sinuous metaphors without help. :P

Mar-12-11		jessicafischerqueen: hahahah Just reading a bunch of back posts from <Hayton by any other name> and he is very, very funny and very, very intelligent. ahahahHAHAHAHAHAAHAH Do you think he might be posting today, and if so under what account? <BORIS CONTROVERSEY> Just to add fuel to the flame, but not really- remember <Switch's> point about how difficult it would be to establish one authoritative version of how to pronounce a name? Case in point: <GM Roman Dzindisvillliaiilvillllvi> pronouncing Boris Spassky: I was just listening to him yesterday and he was born in the USSR but lives now in the USA. He still has a heavy Russian accent, and currently, he pronounces it "BOH- riss" With the "Russian roll" on the "r". Now, is this because he's American now? ?

Mar-12-11		jessicafischerqueen: Also, I happen to have gone to school with <Shirley Yanno> and I can confirm that she is in fact annoying. Dreadful woman, if you ask me.

Mar-12-11		Domdaniel: <Jess> Don't you find this is generally the case with everyone one went to school with? Whatever the school itself may have been like, one's former fellow pupils were dreadful. And get worse, the longer one remains 'in touch'. I'm told some people actually like to have 'old friends' and hold reunions, but it sounds improbable. Who'd want to get drunk with a bunch of balding teenagers? Also, new friends are more likely to be interesting. This can be proven mathematically, but rarely is.

Mar-12-11		jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> yes, I think you're on terra firma here. With regards to the maths, I can't help thinking a proper proof of your theorum must exist. Have you tried using a "vernier scale," or possibly deriving "Hilbert's Office Space"? I'm not an expert, but as you can see, I'm learning quickly thanks to Wikipedia.

Mar-13-11		Benzol: Thanks Annie. <tpstar> has also noted a number more at my forum.

Mar-13-11		Annie K.: <Benzol> sure. :) Tony probably knows all there is to be known around here. ;) <Jess> um, no comment on hayton. It's more fun to misbehave on ceegee's own forum anyway. ;p Dzindzichashvili was probably doing the same thing the other expat Russians are doing: fitting in with what the people around him are <expecting> to hear. It just saves hassle and clarifications. ;) Did you get the second batch of Russkis I sent you yesterday? I seem to have sent it twice - again. I'm not sure why this happens, but it probably has to do with the mail size. <Dom> - Re.: <:p> - LOL! Now, trying to <pronounce> a smiley, that's something that's never occurred to me... LOL. <PS2. The line about something "being there, buffering, to protect us" was stolen from Pynchon. I don't come up with such sinuous metaphors without help.> Heh - you do ok on your own, :D but I figured it was a quote from somebody. You see, that's the second time I've seen you use it, and IME, you rarely repeat <yourself> - you tend to repeat <others> more typically. ;)

Mar-15-11		Domdaniel: <Annie> Very true. Very observant. No doubt some tedious person will disagree.

Mar-15-11		Annie K.: <Dom> Heheh... of course the Prime Directive: Contrariness setting overrides all other typical behaviors. ;) Anyhoo, I said <tend to> and <rarely>. I <NEVER> overgeneralize. Oops.

Mar-15-11		Domdaniel: <Annie> Innaresting, this, ackshully. I don't mean me and my peculiarities, fascinating though I find that topic -- but, rather, the matter of generalizing, and what is or is not repetition. Even in chess, there can be debates about whether a threefold repetition has taken place (eg, is it the same position if a pair of Rooks have swapped squares, and so on). Words are trickier. I suspect that I repeat myself regularly - having, like many humans, a finite stock of ideas. But it's not always obvious, because I use different words, or change the theme slightly, or bend it to fit the current thread, or simply forget myself. And no canonical version exists, so I can take liberties with myself. When quoting from other people, then, by definition, there is a canonical version. I sometimes get those wrong too, but I try to land in the right vicinity. How many Prime Directives you got, anyhow? Is it one highly flexible one (a prime directomorph), or a wardrobe full of tastefully distinct ones?

Mar-15-11		Annie K.: Primum non nocere. :) Of course you repeat yourself, as do we all. That's inevitable, starting with stuff like introducing yourself by the same name to every new person you meet. ;)

Mar-15-11		Domdaniel: < introducing yourself by the same name to every new person you meet> Intriguing. I must remember to try that sometime. Sounds dangerous, though. They could theoretically meet and pool information. Which would be unfortunate, given the trouble I've gone to carrying out identity theft on myself.

Mar-15-11		Annie K.: Oh, yeah - Divide et impera - that was the other one. ;)

Mar-16-11		Domdaniel: Dee-vide and conquer, exactly. Deev wins: A Deev vs Conquest, 1990

Mar-16-11		Annie K.: ...thereby proving that it is probably better to conk east than to conk west. Well, as much as anything. ;p

Mar-18-11		tedious person: I disagree.

Mar-19-11		Annie K.: I agree. ;)

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