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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 >>
<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>
^ 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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May-06-11		dakgootje: heyhey, no real time now. Parents are married for x-amount of years [I think I know the right number] and I'd cook with my brother so... I've gotta get cooking!

May-06-11		SwitchingQuylthulg: <chancho: <Annie> So that was your voice on youtube showing us lesser mortals how to pronounce Nezhmetdinov?> <Annie> You should do Alekhine next... you know why. <Annie K.: any progress on the audio idea? :)> Just a single day after <I'll ask them for an update sometime>... what kind of procrastination is that?

May-06-11		Annie K.: <chancho> thanks. :) <dakkie: <heyhey, no real time now. [...]>> Who said anything about "now"? ;p Congrats to your parents! <Switch: <[...] what kind of procrastination is that?>> Heh. You know, I was asking myself the same question, ackshly! <You should do Alekhine next... you know why.> Yup. That's the real test of pronunciation, innit? :) The reason I wasn't in a hurry with that (and the other "difficult case", Euwe), is that Jess (and Richard) already got those two just right, in the Polish trilogy - the first videos with the voiceover feature.

May-06-11		jessicafischerqueen: <Annie> <Mr. Owls> is right if he's questioning how Richard pronounced Aljechin on the <Polish> series- it's wrong. I'm pretty sure that your Russian gentleman would confirm that. I had the chance to view several chess films in Russian this past week, and I know how it's supposed to sound now. <Niels> confirmed we were on the right track with <Euwe> though. Richard used the handy HOW TO BE A DUTCH PERSON website as a template for the Dutch names. <Niels> provided that remarkably gigantic website of Dutch pronunciation. So to sum up I recently heard three separate Russian people saying <Aljechin's> name on video- including <Roman Dzhindzhidzhihizhihilllli>, and they all matched up pretty close. Richard is saying "Ally ECK in" in a way that makes it sound like four syllables. It should be three syllables and no hard "k" sound. At any rate, I have the Russian soundtracks on my computer so I could pass the Aljechin sound byte along to you easily. Speaking of which, I put your <Efim Geller> on the "chessnames" youtube page- slightly different format- Have a listen when you get a chance. I'm not going to keep the page up for much longer. When you're settled, let me know by email which method you want to use to upload your recordings on to your own youtube channel. There's a third option I didn't mention- which would be you giving directions as to how the videos should look- should the photo be static or have an effect, should there be text of the master's name, how many times should your voice pronounce the name, how many seconds long should the video be, and such. It's very easy for me to follow such directions to your taste. So I put your <Geller> up today so you could have a chance to compare with the <Nezh> one. Depending on how interested you might be in doing it yourself, the most fun option might be making them yourself from scratch. It's very, very easy to do these short segments, doesn't take much time at all. Ok back later, it's the middle of the night here.

May-07-11		Annie K.: <Jess> I'm not sure I remember exactly anymore, but I think at the time I watched the Polish series my impression was that Richard's rendition of Alekhine was considerably better than what one can expect from an average English-speaker's chess video. ;) I just replied to your mail, and checked out the Geller video. I like the more dynamic format there. :) I think a 3-time only audio repetition, with shorter pauses, might require less patience from the viewer, but on the other hand that would leave you less time to present the picture...? It's probably best if I leave these decisions to you. ;s

May-07-11		SwitchingQuylthulg: I felt like puking when I heard the version from the Rossolimo videos, but it probably hit me worse since he committed the very mistake that I had specifically told <jfq> to avoid. ;-)

May-07-11		Annie K.: <Switch> was Alekhine mentioned in the Rossolimo videos, or are you talking about the Polish videos, or about somebody else? I'm a little more confused than usual. :)

May-07-11		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie> 3A is very briefly mentioned in Rossolimo part 2, around the 3 minute mark, as the guy Pomar drew at age 13: Alekhine vs A Pomar-Salamanca, 1944

May-07-11		Annie K.: Ah, ok, thanks <Switch>. :) I didn't remember that bit. They did better in the Polish videos, where Alekhine featured more prominently, though, I think... poor Richard must have forgotten the pronunciation since. It's hard to please a bunch of hardcore chess enthusiasts, eh? ;)

May-07-11		jessicafischerqueen: <Mr. Owls> was right. Yes and to be fair it's not all Richard's fault either- I did indeed fail to remind him and coach him as per the warning instructions about <Aljechin> that <The Post-owl Only Rings Twice> provided us. Possibly I will make <Poor Richard> an <Almanack> that he can study. Anyways <Annie> thanks for those encouraging words, but I'm going to stick with Richard for all vocal work on stuff I upload publicly. He's in to it now, and it's the only way he has to connect to my obsession with chess. He doesn't feel like a neglected bystander any more. Today I will email you a WMV file of a Russian narrator saying <Aljechin> properly. Idea- on the audio files, what about using the threefold repetition with shorter "time controls" (heh) and then finish with Richard saying a few words about the player? Like a "thumbnail" bio, so the length of each might be 30 seconds? At any rate, I'll send some today as attachments. Once I get a decent amount of content over to you, and you get it uploaded, I will add that to the "promotional video" Richard and I have been working on, on and off, for the last few months. Do you remember that? I previously asked for permission to use your photo in it. The idea is copied from what Tryfon periodically for me- he navigates over to letsplaychess and to my channel and such and tells folks about some of the content and features there. In this promo I want to tell people about my upcoming projects, about my second documentary channel, and I'd add info about your pronunciation channel too. It would finish with a thanks and tribute to Tryfon's channel. I estimate that well over half the people who have seen my videos or subscribed to my channel were referred to me by Tryfon, especially by the many "linked content" video's he's made that direct folks over to my house. Ok back later...

May-07-11		jessicafischerqueen: <Switching Owls> I think I may owe you an apology? I deleted an anonymous comment from a "hidden youtube channel" that was posted on the Rossolimo video. I didn't quite understand the comment at the time, or who could have made it, and I didn't like the mention of my mother. At first I thought it might have been a friend from Canada playing a joke on me. Was that you? I did mention my Mom is Finnish to you didn't I? At any rate, apologies and feel free to re-post the comment if it was indeed you. Best regards, JFQ

May-08-11		SwitchingQuylthulg: <jfq> Yes, that was me under my super-secret youtube name, noting any Finn would double over in pain after hearing Richard's pronunciation of Kaarle-Sakari Ojanen. I should maybe have done so in a more genteel way :)

May-08-11		Annie K.: <Jess: <Idea- on the audio files, what about using the threefold repetition with shorter "time controls" (heh) and then finish with Richard saying a few words about the player? Like a "thumbnail" bio, so the length of each might be 30 seconds?>> Let's try it and see. :) Is there some kind of minimum length to a YouTube clip? <Do you remember that [promotional video]? I previously asked for permission to use your photo in it.> Yes, and I gave you permission in some email or other, as I recall. ;s I think it's a good idea to keep your viewers updated.

May-08-11		jessicafischerqueen: <Annie> no- there's no minimum length to a youtube clip. They can be any length you want, no matter how short. We have to go with your personal preference on this- not mine, since it will all be your voice and on your youtube channel. I think I will make a three-fold rep version of <Geller>, sans Richard, with shorter spaces between the reps and send that along.

May-08-11		jessicafischerqueen: Fascinating... I'm just now watching a Russian chess film on <Max Euwe>, and the Russians pronounce his name differently than do native Dutch speakers. Which should come as no surprise, of course. The Russian narrator is saying "Ava" as in <Ava Gardner>. I've sent you a revised "Geller light" file for your rumination.

May-08-11		jessicafischerqueen: Oh and hats off to you and your Russian gentleman- your <Botvinnik> corresponds precisely to the way the Russian narrator says it.

May-09-11		Annie K.: <Jess> OK, thanks. :) I like the latest format best, it's balanced just right; visual, auditory, dynamic, and IMO 100% efficient as the ideal info-burst package to be used as a quick reference tool.

May-09-11		AylerKupp: <Annie K.>, I see that we have something in common, our abbreviated moniker "AK". I'm looking forward to finding out some of your other highly controversial characteristics besides your uncontrollable sense of humor. And I'm awe that you are the one responsible for "All Your Baze are Belong to Us". Should I have a chance to play <Open Defence> again, I will let her in on the second part of the phrase, "You have no chance to survive make your time".

May-09-11		Annie K.: <AylerKupp: <<Annie K.>, I see that we have something in common, our abbreviated moniker "AK".>> Hi there. :) Yes, except in my case that's the initials of my real name. Also shared with Anatoli Karpov, Alexander Khalifman, Alexander Koblents, Alexandra Kosteniuk, and many others, among chess players alone - there seems to be a number of "K" chess players that is probably entirely disproportionate to the general population... <I'm looking forward to finding out some of your other highly controversial characteristics besides your uncontrollable sense of humor.> Well, for a start, a complete lack of modesty would be one of them. ;p

May-09-11		AylerKupp: <<Annie K.> Well, for a start, a complete lack of modesty would be one of them. ;p> So now that's at least two things we have in common :-)

May-09-11		jessicafischerqueen: <Annie> "That's great!" (signature catch phrase of Bruce Pandolfini in <Searching for Bobby Fischer>) So we have a template- I'll use it for all the files to "shipov" over to you. Next step is to upload Geller and his incoming pals on your channel. It's pretty easy to do, but if you do have any questions I'm always around. I've added your channel to my front page- you'll see near the top under the "other channels" module: http://www.youtube.com/user/jessica...

May-10-11		Annie K.: <AylerKupp: <<<Annie K.> Well, for a start, a complete lack of modesty would be one of them. ;p> So now that's at least two things we have in common :-) >> Nothing much wrong with that... as long as it's justified. ;) <Jess> Much Grass! :) I'm currently playing around with my channel, tweaking it and whatnot... ;)

May-10-11		jessicafischerqueen: I have to say <Efim> looks pretty happy sandwiched beside the beautiful women of ABBA. And who wouldn't? Nice work- I'll be sending more TEMPLATES along soon. I have to go back to work tomorrow so the TEMPLATES will come in slowly for a bit. I enjoy typing the word TEMPLATE. I never had occasion to use the word before- ever- so I'm making the most of this opportunity.

May-10-11		jessicafischerqueen: heh that's some pretty effective tweaking, and a fine hyperspecific hyperlink you put on a prominent part of my home page. No doubt local punters will flock from my house to yours. Punters in search of pronouncing chess masters. <Much Grass> I'm not familiar with Spanish. Does this mean you intend to upload documentaries on the <Mighty Serengeti>? Good call.

May-10-11		Annie K.: <Jess> I'm in ur channel, stealin ur viewers! ;) This is fun. :) I have now switched from showing favorites to showing uploads, so Geller will be a little lonely for a while. Heh, just one 14-second upload, and I have 5 subscribers already?! Well, ok, the first is probably a case of mistaken identity, but still. :p

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