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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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May-20-11		jessicafischerqueen: Yes, as in "they drove Ed Trice off the internet in a trice." Seriously it only took about eight months. However, in your defense, I recall years of childhood fun I had on my trusty thricycle.

May-20-11		jessicafischerqueen: Kon-Tiki expedition

May-20-11		jessicafischerqueen: <dak> speaking of crazed badgers, have you glanced at the "Gelfand-Grischuk Match" page recently? It's a new low! Well I guess we weren't really discussing crazed badgers. Also I did learn something from that thread- according to <HeMateMe>, there is a petition on the <Magnus Dei> page to have him elected World Champion. I was going to check to see if it was true, but then decided it would be more fun not to know.

May-20-11		dakgootje: I didn't think the Gigantic Game would attract many familiar weasels. Presumably, as you mentioned, some migrated from the Opussum. Did you know Descartes father initially said "Cogite ergo opus sum" - I think thus I am working - and the Lord (blessed be His Divine sense of Humor) turned him into an opossum? That said, we could use a drunk challenger. Might finally gain some attention from the rest of the world - who generally wouldn't want to play chess either unless they were drunk.

May-20-11		Annie K.: <dakkie> heh! <Jess> okaaay, then we'll obviously need to clear this up! ;p The main usage of the word is as a unit of measure; as such, it could measure anything, including quantities of wheat, so that's how you may have formed that association. :) But that's not the context here - * http://dictionary.reference.com/bro... 1. a Brit unit of dry or liquid measure equal to 8 Imperial gallons. 1 Imperial bushel is equivalent to 0.036 37 cubic metres 2. a US unit of dry measure equal to 64 US pints. 1 US bushel is equivalent to 0.035 24 cubic metres <3. a container with a capacity equal to either of these quantities> 4. informal ( US ) a large amount; great deal 5. hide one's light under a bushel - to conceal one's abilities or good qualities. * When we're talking about "hiding one's light under a bushel", we are clearly referring to an object that would shade / hide a light placed under it - so that would be meaning #3, the container - a pail, a bucket. OK, a rather large one, but that's the idea. I'll get around to re-recording some audios tomorrow... :)

May-25-11		jessicafischerqueen: <Annie> thanks for that extremely detailed information. It "contained" a lot in a short space. Thanks for disabusing me of a longstanding misapprehension about that quote! In other news, I did the advertising and you already got a nice review: Ludek Pachman <Gypsy: <jessicafischerqueen: <Luděk Pachman> Correct pronunciation of his name- > Yup, it sounds about right.>

May-25-11		Annie K.: <Jess> thanks very much for the advertising work! :) Ah, yes, Gypsy - now I remember, he <should> know... I believe he's a native Czech. I recall we once enthusiastically agreed that Jaroslav Hašek's novel 'The Good Soldier Švejk' was a great book. :D Jess, can you get around to making videos for Kholmov, Simagin, and Smyslov next, please? Somebody is asking about them - http://www.youtube.com/all_comments... I'll redo the two "mystery videos" before this weekend, promise. ;)

May-26-11		kingscrusher: Annie, my cat is getting very active at the moment. Just thought I would give you a status update here :) Get you used to status updates... get you hooked into Facebook culture :)

May-26-11		dakgootje: "Join the Dark Side, we've got cookies" and cute cat-pictures presumably ;)

May-26-11		Annie K.: <dakkie> you are clearly well-versed in LOL memes, just as a proper procrastinator should be. Congratulations! :) <Tryfon> heh... nice try. :p Mind you, that's not a "cat", it's a kitten! Very cute, though. Male or female? Name? :) OK, about Facebook, tell you what - I'm open to bribery. ;) Can I have the YouTube icon at CW, now I have an active chess channel too? And my channel listed on the channels page? =) If so, I may retract the allegation about Facebook being evil, and downgrade it... to merely being <very silly>. :p Twitter, however, is still evil. Heh.

May-26-11		Annie K.: <Jess> I'll be catching up with mailz and stuffz this weekend. Tomorrow, that is. Srsly. :) This just in - [Event "FICS rated blitz game"] [Date "2011.05.27"] [White "NN"] [Black "AnnieK"] [WhiteElo "1442"] [BlackElo "1487"] [TimeControl "600+0"] [Mode "ICS"] [Result "0-1"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nf3 Bb4 5. Bg5 Nbd7 6. e3 c5 7. cxd5 exd5 8. Bb5 Bxc3+ 9. bxc3 Qa5 10. Bxd7+ Nxd7 11. Qc2 cxd4 12. exd4 O-O 13. O-O b6 14. Be7 Re8 15. Bb4 Qa6 16. Rfe1 Bb7 17. Ng5 Nf6 18. Qf5 Qc4 19. Be7 Qxc3 20. Rac1 Rxe7 (White resigns) 0-1 Not that it's a good game or anything, but that was fun. ;p

May-27-11		kingscrusher: Annie, check out the channel chooser now: http://www.chessworld.net/chessclub... I've put you and Jessica 3rd and 4th from the left now :)

May-27-11		kingscrusher: Youtube icon too now :)

May-27-11		jessicafischerqueen: <Tryfon> thanks so much for moving the Chess history and also the Chess documentary channel and Annie's pronunciation channel to prominent spots on your chess channel chooser- I can't speak for <Annie> so I'll speak for myself- In my opinion the exact wording you use to describe Annie's listing on the page is not accurate- I don't think it should say "supporting" my work, given that it was Annie's idea to have the names pronounced properly in the first place, it was also her idea to do the research (tons of research as it's turning out) to find the correct pronunciations, it was also her idea to make audio files of the pronunciations, and it was also her idea to use her own youtube channel to broadcast the pronunciations. My "contribution" to Annie's work here is solely restricted to me begging Annie to tell me how to pronounce chess names properly here at chessgames.com.

May-27-11		jessicafischerqueen: <Annie> look forward to your TOP SECRET message when you get time to send it- I'm likely overexcited by the idea of this TOP SECRET project that nobody is allowed to know about. Possibly we should even hire some security to ensure our plan is not leaked to the Soviets.

May-27-11		kingscrusher: Okay changed to: "Great set of Chess player name pronounciation videos" which I hope Annie is okay with - Annie just message me what I should say :)

May-27-11		Annie K.: <Tryfon> that's fine, thanks. :) <Jess> I haven't seen the former wording in any case, but methinks you are seriously downplaying your part in my channel/project - <Jess: <My "contribution" to Annie's work here is solely restricted to me begging Annie to tell me how to pronounce chess names properly here at chessgames.com.>> Hardly. There's also the not-so-minor detail that I don't even know how to create movie files that one can upload to YouTube, even now - I've been depending entirely on you to make those. And they are based on my audio files, yes, but collecting all those great photos for them, and adding the biographical info, isn't exactly a contribution to be taken for granted either. As far as I'm concerned, you're a full partner in this project, to say the least. :) OK - sent you some comments and overdue replies, and will get some recordings done and sent later today or tomorrow.

May-27-11		jessicafischerqueen: <Annie> maybe we should quote <Thanh Phan> on this- "Result- even." Thanks for the first two installments- food for thought doesn't do it justice, more like a banquet, and much appreciated. Back later with the Thai food you ordered.

May-28-11		jessicafischerqueen: == Cripe that was dizzying I just went on IN YOUR FACE book for all of five minutes and I was forced to interact with many pop up windows and other good people. I made a special new email account just for IN YOUR FACE book but I suppose they can just find all my other accounts by secret spy methods eh? Oh well. I'm glad to see you led the opposition to linking chessgames.com to facebook. <Chessgames.com>: "I come here to have fun," to quote a good friend of mine. I don't come here to participate in an internet social network. Oh wait...

May-28-11		Annie K.: <Jess> ok, result - even is fine by me. :) Sent you a bunch of stuffz in installments now, that should keep you out of FaceBook mischief for a while. ;)

May-29-11		jessicafischerqueen: Well you'd think so. Although with a staggering five friends, I don't think I'll get into trouble anyways. At least they are five people I actually know and like, all from this website, oddly enough. Did you know that Hungary had their own "in house" system for awarding chess titles, just like the Russians? It's a fact!

May-30-11		dakgootje: Hey! You've got mill! Hope it helps - otherwise gimme a yell ^^

May-30-11		Annie K.: <Jess> just don't agree to everything they "suggest" you install, and you should be ok. ;) BTW, you did get the <new> Smyslov audio I sent? It was in the same mail as Unzicker and the two "mystery players". Oh, wait, I'll be releasing Alekhine today, so that's one mystery down. I'm afraid our esteemed critic still isn't quite satisfied with t'other one. ;s <dakkie> thanks, gotit! I'll try to redo that today or tomorrow - think I'll just send you the audio files directly, until we agree on the final version. Got QuickTime? :)

May-31-11		dakgootje: Herr Computer recently moaned it had lost it's QuickTime-toy and wanted a new one. I replied it should take better care where it put it's things. An hour later I found it slumped in the corner, quietly sobbing. So I guess I'll pick up a new QuickTime in the bear future. It's only a matter of time before bears discover Lasers and enslave humanity after all.

Jun-01-11		Annie K.: <dakkie> heh - wonderfully animistic depictions. :) Sorriez about the quiet - I just have to take care of some urgent procrastination here! What passes for normal services will resume in another day or so, aka "the weekend". ;) PS - <Jess> just tipped me off regarding the whereabouts of an m4a-mp3 converter, so I may try it out and send you an mp3 file, for which you wouldn't even need QuickTime. Thanks <Jess>. :)

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