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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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Jun-11-11		jessicafischerqueen: <dak> yes you can buy them online now. One of my students was urging me to join the Worldvision "support a child" program because I'm not married yet. I'm approaching 30 and in Korea you are supposed to be married before then. I countered by pretending to misunderstand: "You mean I can actually buy a child here?" Student: "No teacher! You give 30,000 won a month" "So I'd be renting a child then."

Jun-11-11		jessicafischerqueen: <Annie> there's another froggy! <Vachier Legrave>, the infamous "Serious Cow."

Jun-12-11		dakgootje: Sounds like a good deal - especially if they clean and cook. And aren't your students just ever so helpful.. When your mother is not around ["You are not getting any younger you know"] - they will help you remind. - Perhaps I should move to S-Korea so I can finally say 'Look, I have won!' Okay, that was too easy.

Jun-12-11		Domdaniel: <Annie> Good work on those Russian ells. Of course they'd deny the presence of a 'ya' - that's totally different. It's just a special kind of 'L', is all. I have a small advantage here in that Irish Gaelic has something similar. More, in fact - it has hard, soft, dark, and light Ells. One linguist claimed there are nine distinct ell-sounds in Irish, but that sounds a bit (L)aborate. Meanwhile, I'm struggling with the physical task of starting a word with a glottal stop. Intervocalic glottal stops are simple, even in English - Sa'urday, for example. But I seem to need a preceding vowel to run up to it ... dunno how those Semites manage it. Check out Polugaevsky vs Ftacnik, 1982 for a small orthoepic debate on the rather ordinary 'Ftacnik'. I suggested 'Fff-TATCH-neek', but some 'olk wanted a silent 'f' (!) and that abomination, a hard 'c'. Ugly. Teaching chessplayers about furrin names ain't gone be a stroll on the cake, as you say in Inglese.

Jun-12-11		Annie K.: <Jess> anything particularly mindbogglingly incomprehensible in that Russian book, if you like, you can send me a scan/link and I'll send it over to Mom, who can get a second opinion from Vladimir in short order. :) He has to be <here> to do recordings, but he doesn't have to be here to merely interpret some Russian text - so that wouldn't be nearly as difficult to arrange. And he really enjoys the chance to teach Russian, and would probably be interested in the subject too. <dakkie> thx for mail - I'll look into it soon, very tired just now due to having had to run errands during my usual morning sleeping hours, and tomorrow will be more of the same... meanwhile, maybe you could try to clarify in terms of accent rather than inflection: where does the stress go - which syllables are stressed most/least? <Jess: <lol in English we also use the TOP SECRET method of dating- if an English book refers to the "19th century" it means the years 1800-1899.>> Ooops, oh yeah - I do seem to recall that we've left the twentieth century behind a while ago. There's a reason for that mixup though - I'll try to remember to explain in next mail. :) <That said, however, if you got in to making them yourself for your new hit Chess TV channel, that would be a million times better- if you had fun doing it to. It's not hard, it only took me a year to figure out how to work the machine. I'm terrible with such things though. At any rate that's all up to you- I'll offer some tips and advice- there's a good Movie Maker tutorial I can pass you and I have to pass it to <pgp> as well. First thing is to find which Windows Movie Maker you have on your computer already (it comes with the set!) and then download the only decent build- Windows Movie Maker 6.0> I do enjoy playing around with software - that's how I learned most of'em. The only program I was actually <taught> to use was AutoCad, and that's because it was part of my architecture studies. Of course we were still drawing on cave walls then. ;) Anyhoo, everything else I explored on my own, with the occasional helpful tip. I tend to be badly allergic to being on the receiving end of any "formal education", ackshly. ;s I have Windows Movie Maker version 5.1, but my OS is still Win XP, which, as a little exploration seemed to indicate, doesn't support version 6. <Why don't WE call chess games parties?> You can, if you want to! :) In Hungarian, both 'játszma' (game), and parti (guess what? ...yep, it's been, uh, borrowed) can be used for chess games. ;) <there's another froggy! <Vachier Legrave>, the infamous "Serious Cow."> Heh, yeah, and a few others - good thing nobody asked for them yet... ;p <Dom> I suppose I will now have to find out how Ftacnik is actually supposed to be pronounced? OK, as soon as I can get to him. ;s I <can> pronounce 'Zmrzlina', though, meanwhile - which is a good thing, because the Slovaks have some world-class ice cream parlors, if not many vowels! Ah, it's all about the incentive. ;) <Dom: <I have a small advantage here in that Irish Gaelic has something similar.>> What's particularly frustrating is that I'm pretty sure Hungarian also <used to> have something very similar at some point - but <lost> it. :s There is a specific two-letter combo 'ly', which today is pronounced almost completely identically to the letter 'j' (which in Hungarian is pronounced as the consonant 'y' - as in York, year, etc.) - just very slightly weaker, and with the merest hint of a shift toward 'L'... if you really concentrate. Normally it's just pronounced the same as the j. Now, in English, it's fairly common for some letters to be pronounced identically to other letters, at least some of the time; g and j are often the same sound, t and s often turn into sh, s into z, while c is either s or k... ok we all know that. But in Hungarian, a completely phonetic language, that just doesn't happen - and there is <no other phoneme> that can be written two different ways! - which tells me that the 'ly' was once pronounced in a way significantly different from today, and I strongly suspect that it was exactly that Russian 'soft L'. If I ever find out who lost that letter... ;p

Jun-12-11		Annie K.: Oh, forgot this - <Jess: <I can't wait to hear the TOP SECRET story about how chess helped the TOP SECRET guy escape.>> Heh. That particular TOP SECRET document only has that much about the infamous PRISONER OF MONTE CARLO - it goes on to talk about others. However, I did a little independent research yesterday, and learned that the fellow had an absolutely amazing life - but I hadn't seen any further leads to any connection he had to chess. Then again, I only skimmed the material I found - will look again.

Jun-12-11		Annie K.: <Jess> re.: my latest email - not subtract, add. ;s

Jun-13-11		dakgootje: <maybe you could try to clarify in terms of accent rather than inflection: where does the stress go - which syllables are stressed most/least?> Ah, but that's the thing -- the syllables stressed most [middle of machgielis and first of euwe] sounds right to me - so I wouldn't know how to improve on that ;)

Jun-13-11		Open Defence: H Potter

Jun-13-11		Ziggurat: The <a> can denote the genitive case in Russian: http://www.russianlessons.net/lesso... So when it says "Nezhmetdinova" it basically means "Nezhmetdinov's" or "of Nezhmetdinov".

Jun-13-11		Stonehenge: Or direct object. In Slavonic languages 4th case = 2nd case, when it comes to living creatures.

Jun-14-11		Annie K.: <dakkie> okaaaay... then I'll get back to this on the weekend, hopefully. ;) <Deffi> heh - thanks. I was just wondering where you disappeared! :)

Jun-15-11		dakgootje: heh, who knows - perhaps I am explaining it wrongly :/

Jun-15-11		Open Defence: i've been doing a <Domdaniel> by lurking and larking around....

Jun-17-11		valiant: Hej, I thought it might be of interest to you to know that it was a 45 min. documentary about your family's history on Swedish Radio channel one - earlier this week ... http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artike... The consequences of 'the treaty of Trianon' (4 June 1920) were very traumatic I understand. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A...

Jun-18-11		jessicafischerqueen: <Annie> ok I just got this from the "Horse's Mouth"- <Arthur Bisguier> pronouncing his own name, and I bet most don't know this one: "Arthur Biss guy er" I will isolate the mp3 of him saying it and pass it along. I have a suspicion most think it is "Biz Gweer".

Jun-18-11		crawfb5: <<Arthur Bisguier> pronouncing his own name, and I bet most don't know this one: "Arthur Biss guy er" I will isolate the mp3 of him saying it and pass it along. I have a suspicion most think it is "Biz Gweer".> Back in January, I posted: <I knew someone who knew both and my friend used straightforward versions: Berlin-(like the city)-er Bis-guy-er>

Jun-18-11		jessicafischerqueen: <Annie> while it looks like <Big> already posted this information, and that I simply forgot it, I can assure you this is not the case! <Big> rushed out his version whilst mine was still at the chemist's.

Jun-18-11		crawfb5: <Jess> I keep telling you to find a faster chemist, or at least one that doesn't claim his first name is <Al>.

Jun-18-11		TheFocus: I always pronounced it <Biz Gweer>. Nice to know better.

Jun-18-11		Annie K.: <valiant> thanks. :) <craw> heh! Yeah, I remember you posted that. <Jess> that's an innaresting philosophical point, ackshly - I'm supposed to be covering <non-English> pronunciations. So should I be covering a <totally English pronunciation> just because folks suspect it of being non-English? This is complicated. :s

Jun-18-11		Thanh Phan: Hello <Annie K.> A thought that even if are <totally English pronunciation>, still some confuse over how to pronounce for some. Any chance we learn to pronounce names and still chat without having to point at name instead would help me also others. Many thanks for your guides at YouTube ~Thanh Phạn

Jun-18-11		Annie K.: <Thanh> ok, good point. :) Thanks for your (or your sister's?) comment on my channel! <JessJessJessJess> I uploaded a clip all by myself, plz to check it out? =)

Jun-18-11		jessicafischerqueen: <Annie> great news you are off to the races! You rushed out your version while mine was still at the chemist's. Many apologies- I did come by here several times in the last week and failed to notice you had replied- in detail- to so many points. I'll be sending you an EMU today- Hopefully we can solve all our problems by eliminating the heads of the five families. I will check out your debut after I write this post here. One quick question- Do you think we should say "Belgrade" or "Beograd" in our videos? And if so, how do you pronounce "Beograd"? ?! ?????????? ()()()*(&)(&(

Jun-18-11		Annie K.: <Jess> no worries. :) I think you can go with Beograd, if you first introduce it as <Beograd (Belgrade, Serbia)>. Good audios at forvo - http://www.forvo.com/word/beograd/

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