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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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May-12-11		SwitchingQuylthulg: And <that> should be spelled... er, maybe just stick with <Mr. Owls> in the future? ;-)

May-12-11		jessicafischerqueen: <Mr. Owls> it is then.

May-12-11		jessicafischerqueen: Ok I just fixed the spelling mistake on your name in the video comments section. QUESTION: Are you ever going to tell me how you knew- exactly- how many times I'd cut and pasted your full ID name, and how many times I'd actually typed it out by hand? I kind of need to know.

May-12-11		SwitchingQuylthulg: No.

May-12-11		jessicafischerqueen: lol..

May-12-11		jessicafischerqueen: ahhhahh that came in so quick and was so succinct I just spit up diet coke all over my pilliow ahhhahahahah

May-12-11		dakgootje: I think Big Tuna would disagree and plea he has fishy rights as well. But who'd believe that?! It's just a fish'story.

May-12-11		crawfb5: Thyme and the tied wait for nomads.

May-12-11		Annie K.: LOL... srsly, catching up with this page just gave me a major attack of the giggles. Thx, all involved. :D <Jess> I don't think I'll pronounce Bobby Fischer's name, 'cuz it's pronounced "Bobby Fischer", and my channel description sez: <This channel is now dedicated to demonstrating correct pronunciations of the names of <non-English> chess players.> Heh. I can do without the extra "popularity", if it would mean losing / sacrificing focus for it. :) OK, we'll get around to Alekhine, sooner or later. ;) Meanwhile, I just uploaded Bacrot and Charousek - can has Pachman next? =) Also, passenger pigeon shortly on the way to you...

May-12-11		Annie K.: <Jess> I hope I'll have time to write more this weekend (in between unpacking the last 4-5 boxes from the move...), too. This was just a first-things-first sorta quickie note. ;) <Switch> would you like to preview my videos too, in case I'm doin it (any names, that is) rong? =)

May-13-11		jessicafischerqueen: heh... "You're doing it wrong" I wonder if the lulz kidz at 4-chan had <Mr. Owls> in mind when they made that an iconic idiom.

May-13-11		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie: <Switch> would you like to preview my videos too> I can if you think it's some use, but I have this idea that between you and <Jess>, you aren't the one who badly needs a prooflistener :)

May-13-11		jessicafischerqueen: My ears are burning! However, I'm happy for the help believe me. <Annie> the HUNGARIAN OOMLAWTS and CIRCUMFLEXES come out perfectly on my computer screen at home and at work. I doubt there's any problem. I've sent some more eggs for the nursery. arooo

May-13-11		crawfb5: <<Jess> I don't think I'll pronounce Bobby Fischer's name, 'cuz it's pronounced "Bobby Fischer", and my channel description sez: <This channel is now dedicated to demonstrating correct pronunciations of the names of <non-English> chess players.>> He only played 1. c4 in seven of his games in our database. That qualifies as "non-English" to me... Maybe something like Bob-baay Feesh-aaahh....

May-13-11		jessicafischerqueen: That is the infamous Peter Lorre pronunciation.

May-13-11		Annie K.: <craw: <He only played 1. c4 in seven of his games in our database.>> As they say over at Memebase... <1.c4: Not even once!> ;) <Jess> merci beaucoup!!!1! :) Pachman, Petrosian, and Barcza now uploaded, thanks to your diligence. Glad to hear the accents work for you too. If anybody sees gibberish instead of accented letters, please let me know! <Switch> I'm flattered, but not sure I quite share your confidence in me. Anyhoo, if/when I feel I may be on thin ice (such as with Czech names...) I'll try putting the video on unlisted status, and send an SOS your way, via QA or FICS PM! :D

May-13-11		jessicafischerqueen: <Annie> in case <tpstar> hasn't seen this, it's a video analysis of one of his games by Kevin at "The Chess Website": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No51... Almost 19,000 people have watched this video!

May-13-11		Annie K.: <Jess> Thanks for the heads-up! :) At least here at CG, <tpstar> sees everything. Count on it. ;)

May-13-11		tpstar: <jessicafischerqueen> Thank you very much! I thought that game was an instructive example of the Spanish 4N with 4 ... Bd6!? which scores well for Black, then it transposed into an Italian where Black delayed castling. I used the ... Rxg5 combination as an example of Unpinning in a puzzle set, and it helped having the mating idea along the h file, then I also used the Discovered Check at the end. The YouTube comments are funny; less experienced players learned a great deal, while higher rated folks branded it a bad game. Of course, it would have never received such international exposure if it weren't for the ultra clever GOTD title "All Your Baze Are Belong To Us" and you'll never guess who wrote that. ;>D <sees everything> Ooh, that is spooky. :P

May-14-11		jessicafischerqueen: <tpstar> you're welcome- so I take it you hadn't been aware of Kevin's video? I happened upon it by chance yesterday whilst searching for something else. I noticed that your game was the "featured video" on the side bar, which is a good sign for even more people getting to know it. <Kevin> is a redoubtable and intelligent annotator, and he has an enormous audience. I was aware that <Annie> made the Immortal Pun that helped make your game immortal too. It is an interesting game to be sure, I had played through it a couple of times before at CG.com, like many of us. It's an exciting and unusual game, of interest to the duffer, expert, and master alike, I'd wager. Yes, the youtube chess crowd is a multifarious and often crabby bunch, ranging from the curious newcomer to the most bitter and jaded chess "experts" on earth, apparently. I'm a duffer so I can only personally attest to the first category. However 19,000 views is nothing to sneeze at, testament not just to <Kevin's> viewership, but also to the game itself.

May-14-11		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie: Anybody interested in a specific player, please feel free to post a pronunciation request in my channel comments.> That may not count as interest (and this may not count as your channel), but going by famous GMs the Rossolimo videos had problems with, you should consider a high priority for GM Bronstein and GM Draw.

May-14-11		jessicafischerqueen: <Switch> who is GM Draw? Do you mean Kramnik? <Annie, Switch> I'm listening to more Russian Chess TV today and noticed that depending on the narrator, "Mikhail" is pronounced differently- One guy says "Mi- Khile" and the other says "Mi- Khale". This may be more a point of interest than a problem though- as <Owls> pointed out there are variations within a language. <Annie> I'm going to go with the pronunciation of "Mikhail" that you've already completed. Also, you guys <and Dom> may be pleased/horrified to note that the Russian narrators on these shows are saying "Ba-REES" Spassky. Nobody has yet said "BO-ris". Finally- <Annie> yes we do need a proper <Bronstein>, and can you also add "Voloshin" to the list? Just the last name will do. It's not <Leonid Voloshin> I'm after but a more mysterious fellow who played during the 50s and 60s. He doesn't appear to be listed in chessmetrics even, but I have photos of him playing Russian masters. I wonder if there's some alternate spelling of his name that I'm missing.

May-14-11		jessicafischerqueen: <Annie> I don't want to alarm you, but it appears that a mysterious fellow has recently subscribed to your youtube channel- the only clue to his identity is his avatar, a Green Tree that looks awfully familiar... ?!

May-14-11		jessicafischerqueen: <Annie> I'm keeping a list of the new requests on my hard drive, so they are not scattered all over the place. I will email it to you shortly- The three priorities for the <Nezh> project are 1. <Andor (André, Andre, Andrei) Lilienthal> 2. <Alexander Kazimirovich Tolush> (I know I already emailed you Tolush but I need his middle name also- there's a fascinating anecdote about his middle name to do with the one and only time Tolush played Nezh) 3. <Salo Flohr> With regard to <Flohr>- Should we use the Czech or the Russian pronunciation of his name? And <Lilienthal>- Should we use the Hungarian or Russian version?

May-14-11		jessicafischerqueen: Well that was fast- I'm inclined also to trust your having gotten the hang of the language- I'm inclined to go with Czech version of <Flohr> and Hungarian version of <Lilienthal> as well.

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