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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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Apr-06-11		dakgootje: Welcome back miss Annie! Rome is great - but I give an edge to Barcelona :P Perhaps I should go back to Paris once - been there years ago, but was not that impressed..

Apr-06-11		Annie K.: <Dom: <<Annie> Good to see you back. There were 40 pages of flame chez Naka-Goldsby (which has become the Rogoff for thugs, or something) but I imagine there have been deletings.>> It's good to be back. :) I've been marginally aware of the latest all-out war, since various posts to "That Page" kept popping up on my Activity of Favorites page, of whom I keep an extensive list (166 ATM, and most of them have no clue I ever even heard of'em... just the way I like it). :p I didn't actually look in there though; I had a feeling I'd have a much better time out here. ;) <Would you mind if I named a fictional character "Anneka Pell" ...?> Thanks, sweet, but I'd rather you didn't. You don't really know me well enough for a "portrait" - yet, anyway - and I don't really care to serve as the subject of a shallow caricature, however well-meant. :) <hms> well, there's no arguing taste, but the thing is that I have an architectural background, and to those of us really into architectural history, Rome has just about the same significance that Mecca has to the Muslims. ;) <dakkie: <Rome is great - but I give an edge to Barcelona :P >> I thought you said you hadn't been to Rome yet? :)

Apr-06-11		dakgootje: I did? Really? That must've been some years ago - or I was sleepkibitzing.

Apr-06-11		Annie K.: <dakkie> I probably misread something, then. How long have you stayed there, and what were your favorite places? :)

Apr-07-11		dakgootje: only a few days I am afraid. As with a load of big capital cities in Europe really - only getting a quick taste. Think I was 15ish at the time, so it is <VERY> long ago ;) Loved the Vatican Museum [heh, obviously]. However, it's all-round a great place, can just turn a corner and walk into some old building :) What spots did you like best?

Apr-07-11		Domdaniel: OK, then. I'll stick with Tina Welt or something. Small world, innit.

Apr-07-11		hms123: <Annie> Architecture and Roma: you are right, of course. In fact, I was standing in the Pantheon in Rome a few years ago when I heard someone yell out my name. It was a former student who was in Rome doing some sort of architectural internship. I really love Rome for lots of reasons--the Bernini sculptures at the Borghese Gallery being one of them.

Apr-07-11		dakgootje: Guess it is a good sign a former student tries to attract your attention when he happens to spot you ;D

Apr-07-11		hms123: <dak> At least she didn't throw a column at my head. I do tend to get on well with students despite my awful sense of humor and the numbers that seem to permeate the class that I teach.

Apr-07-11		crawfb5: <H> That would have made her a columnist...ok, now I'll go Roman somewhere else...

Apr-07-11		dakgootje: <Craw> With such jokes, I'm not sure you will be Latin.

Apr-08-11		Annie K.: Ouch, ouch, ouch... :p <Dom> it has often been my impression that the world is a fairly smallish one, but I'm still not getting the reference there, if there is one. :s Another chapter of 'How NOT to play the French' coming soon to your place, btw. :) <dakkie: <What spots did you like best?>> The Pantheon is the main "pilgrimage" center. And it does seem to have this habit of popping up around the most unexpected corners! ;) I'm also very fond of the Fontana di Trevi, and of course the Colosseum, the Foro Romano, San Pietro with particular attention to the majestic oval colonnade defining its courtyard, and, last but not least, the always amazing Capella Sistina. But anywhere in Rome is just... Rome. :) <hms> I agree with <dakkie> - it's definitely one sign of a good teacher. :) We didn't visit the Borghese Gallery... heck, I had to sneak off just to visit the Vatican Museum again. Well, not exactly "sneak", as I was joined by the company president and his wife, an awfully cute couple, who also wanted to see it... but most of the group were not very cultural-minded, and preferred to go shopping, so our guide didn't want to force much education on them. :\ But he did use another "free period" to take us art&architecture enthusiasts on a little private tour to see some less known spots of interest. :) I hold Bernini guilty on one count of major vandalism, anyway, casting those columns in the San Pietro out of bronze pillaged from the Pantheon... but he did seem to have done much work with sculptures all over Rome.

Apr-08-11		hms123: <Annie> Have you read this book? http://www.amazon.com/Brunelleschis... It is first-rate and easy going.

Apr-08-11		Annie K.: <hms> thanks - I haven't, and maybe I'll try to find it. I've seen the magnificent 'Il Duomo' of Florence in '95, and was greatly impressed. :)

Apr-08-11		jessicafischerqueen: Warm welcome back to you! I hope you are refreshed. Why are you moving? I hope it will bring good things to you. I read your post over at <Dom's> where you used the pronoun "it." That was shocking to read- very powerful- and, I must strongly emphasize- entirely justified. When we use the term "human" we mean something more than just an animal. It is the responsibility of every human to live up to that ethical imperative.

Apr-09-11		Annie K.: Hi <Jess>! I'm moving because the owner of my current apartment needs it back now. Hope I'll get around to writing you a mail sometime soon, too. :) Re.: <it> - yes, I don't use that pronoun without giving it considerable thought first. A very damaged person, as <Dom> actually pointed out, quite early on, too. He's very perceptive, in fact, our <Dom>. ;)

Apr-09-11		Domdaniel: Nah, I'm faking it. You two are the real thing.

Apr-09-11		OhioChessFan: <Would you mind if I named a fictional character "Anneka Pell" ...?> <AK: Thanks, sweet, but I'd rather you didn't. You don't really know me well enough for a "portrait" - yet, anyway - and I don't really care to serve as the subject of a shallow caricature, however well-meant. > I thought maybe it was the boring part. Who'd want to be the model for: <She'd be a good person, mostly>

Apr-09-11		Annie K.: <Dom> nah yourself. I'm on to you, dear; you're faking faking it. ;) <Ohio> I don't really have a problem with that. Anybody who wants to consider me boring, is most welcome to do so. :) PS - but you may wanna read more carefully, though - that "mostly" part can be tricky. :p

Apr-09-11		technical draw: Since you weren't here April 2, <Annie K> congratulations on your 7 years at chessgames.com. Seven years is a nice round number. I'll be looking forward to the next seven, (if we can the next survive 7 months!).

Apr-10-11		Open Defence: congrats on 7 years!

Apr-10-11		hms123: <Annie> You haven't aged a bit in seven years. Congrats!

Apr-10-11		Open Defence: http://www.flickr.com/photos/486979...

Apr-10-11		Annie K.: <hms> just a couple of lifetimes, is all... ;) <Deffi> That's a sweet little cat. BTW, you missed a question about your previously posted pic here by <Thanh Phan>? :)

Apr-10-11		Open Defence: Hi <Annie> I replied in her forum some time back :)

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