User Profile: The Caissars

The Caissars
Member since Dec-28-12

Welcome to << The Caissars >>
It is an annual tradition of Chessgames to begin the year looking back at the previous. We're celebrating 2013 as we salute 2012, and offer these 13 categories available for awards:
1. Best Avatar
2. Best Username
3. Most Helpful
4. Best Post
5. Funniest Poster
6. Most Constructive
7. Best Profile
8. Best Analysis
9. Best Game Collection
10. Most Informed
11. Best Historian
12. Best/Worst Pun of the Year
13. Player of the Year
SCHEDULE
January 2-8: Nominations
January 9: Rest day
January 10: Voting for 1 & 2
<< BEST USERNAME >> goes to <Phony Benoni>
<< BEST AVATAR >> goes to <parmetd>
January 11: Voting for 3 & 4
<< MOST HELPFUL goes to <hms123>>>
<< BEST POST goes to <tpstar> for Anand-Gelfand World Chess Championship (2012) <ANAND-GELFAND BY KASPAROV / KRAMNIK / KIRSAN / TOPALOV / PARIS HILTON / et al>>>
January 12: Voting for 5 & 6
<< FUNNIEST POSTER goes to <technical draw>>>
<< MOST CONSTRUCTIVE goes to "All Bistro Biographers collectively" >>
January 13: Rest day
January 14: Voting for 7 & 8
<< BEST PROFILE goes to User: jessicafischerqueen >>
<< BEST ANALYSIS goes to <Eyal>>>
January 15: Voting for 9 & 10
<< BEST GAME COLLECTION goes to <Phony Benoni> for Game Collection: Game of the Day Pun Index (A-C)>>
<< MOST INFORMED goes to <Softpaw>>
January 16: Voting for 11 & 12
<< BEST HISTORIAN "All Bistro Biographers collectively" >>
<< BEST (WORST) PUN Control-Ault-Delete (Fischer vs R Ault, 1959) (submitted originally by FSR) >>
<< 2012 PLAYER OF THE YEAR Magnus Carlsen >>
NOMINATION RULES
From January 2-8 we received nominations for all categories. The nomination phase is hereby over.
VOTING RULES
All votes must be time-stamped with the correct date to be counted. Early and late votes will be ignored and/or deleted.
Each day two awards are voted for (except for the final day, where we only vote on one.) You may vote for both awards in one post; in fact you are encouraged.
When you vote, please use the word "vote" or "voting", the category you are voting for, and also enclose the name of the candidate in <gold text>. For example: "I vote for <Chess Player> for best username."
You are permitted to vote for TWO candidates in each category, if you want to. In such a case your vote will be split with a half-point going to each candidate.
OTHER RULES
You may NOT argue who should or should not win any of the various awards on this forum, although while you actually cast your nomination/vote you may say a few words about their merits.
If you have more than one Chessgames account you are welcome to participate in this process but you must choose *ONE* account to use only. Sockpuppetry shan't be tolerated.

See the chessforum below for more information!

   The Caissars has kibitzed 28 times to chessgames [more...]

   Jan-18-13 The Caissars chessforum

The Caissars: Do I even need to do a count? ;-) Congratulations to <Magnus Carlsen> for being the Player of 2012, and congratulations to all of the people who won Caissars this years. Plus, thanks to all of you for participating. As most of you know this is the first year CG has taken

   Jan-17-13 Biographer Bistro

The Caissars: You folks have won two Caissars this year: "Most Productive" and "Best Historian(s)". Congraulations; the CG community does not overlook your valiant contributions.

   Jan-11-13 Kibitzer's Café

The Caissars: <CAISSARS UPDATE> Last call for voting on "Best Post" and "Most Helpful" — and tomorrow (after midnight) we'll begin voting on "Funniest Poster" and "Most Constructive". Just click on my graphic for more info. Thanks!

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Jan-19-13		Colonel Mortimer: I'm not a popular person on this site with many - nor do I wish to be. But I do recognise fairness. I will take that over 'popularity' any day.

Jan-19-13		Abdel Irada: <mightor: < Abdel Irada: <Blunderdome: I prefer public voting, though.> Why?> openness and accountability are usually considered cornerstones of a democratic system,> Election-day lobbyists like you are precisely the reason why the U.S. and other countries use private ballots. One should be able to vote without fear of pressure, harassment or retribution, and that is difficult in an environment in which magnificos and mightors prowl the polling places.

Jan-19-13		Colonel Mortimer: To be fair - there are others.

Jan-19-13		mightor: <One should be able to vote without fear of pressure, harassment or retribution,> Such a petty trade off if you consider the objectives sought out to be achieved in an open voting system. These are, as I've pointed out already- the openness, accountability and transparency which are usually considered cornerstones of a democratic system. There is even a non-governmental organization that monitors and publicizes corporate and political corruption in international development. http://www.transparency.org/ Corruption (i.e. manufactured results in favor of pampered bets) would be a most probable result of a private voting system. An open system pre-empts this. < and that is difficult in an environment in which magnificos and mightors prowl the polling places.> Private voting is supposed to protect the voters from the ills you've enumerated and not the election commissioners. If CG needs to protect itself from the magnificos and mightors , they can do it by coming up with effective < CG election rules and procedures> just like this one:http://www.chanrobles.com/comelecru... And who says magnifico and mightors are night prowlers out to spread mayhem and havoc. They are in fact barangay tanods http://www.google.com.ph/search?hl=... out to maintain peace and order under a regime of truth, justice and democracy.

Jan-19-13		Abdel Irada: <And who says magnifico and mightors are night prowlers out to spread mayhem and havoc.> Who said anything about "night," "mayhem" or "havoc"? What you do spread is lobbying of voters to cast their ballots in accordance with your desires, which tends to undermine the validity of the electoral process.

Jan-19-13		Colonel Mortimer: <Abdel> <What you do spread is lobbying of voters to cast their ballots in accordance with your desires, which tends to undermine the validity of the electoral process.> I would tend to agree - <tpstar> was 'piqued' by the 'best informed' caissar going to <softpaw> - you only have to read lightly into his recent post to me on the "argue" page to pick this up.

Jan-19-13		mightor: <What you do spread is lobbying of voters to cast their ballots in accordance with your desires, which tends to undermine the validity of the electoral process.> Well, CG did not see anything wrong with the lobbying your implying. It's within the rules: <...although while you actually cast your nomination/vote you may say a few words about their merits.>

Jan-19-13		Abdel Irada: Key words: "...while you actually cast..." This does not seem to sanction taking every opportunity to promote a favorite player.

Jan-19-13		mightor: <This does not seem to sanction taking every opportunity to promote a favorite player.> Good point. Which CG seems to miss intentionally or unintentionally. It was more worried of pressing matters on its agenda- on top of the list was denuding the Wesley So forest of 80 acres of healthy timber.

Jan-19-13		mightor: But your man <southpaw> won. So, <not Wesley> why are you complaining?

Jan-19-13		mightor: <Colonel Mortimer: To be fair - there are others.> I may have some idea. Can you name them please?

Jan-19-13		Colonel Mortimer: Nope - they know who they are.

Jan-19-13		mightor: I missed your Lee Van Cliff avatar...Still, I would not have voted it as best. A Clint Eastwood maybe...

Jan-19-13		Colonel Mortimer: Everyone goes for Clint Eastwood. Just watch the whole final scene in a "Few Dollars More" and you'll realise what I'm about..

Jan-19-13		mightor: http://youtu.be/KBdBCTvK5zM are you out for vengeance old man?

Jan-19-13		Colonel Mortimer: Thanks, I added it to my profile

Jan-19-13		chancho: Don't mess with the Colonel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmbx...

Jan-19-13		OhioChessFan: <The Caissars> if you're not ready to jump out a window after your first year of hosting, could I suggest that future forums be named "The Caissars 2013", "The Caissars 2014", etc?

Jan-19-13		Colonel Mortimer: <chancho:> That messes with the colonel, by putting him in the eighties:)

Jan-19-13		chancho: <Colonel Mortimer> User: lol

Jan-19-13		mightor: Bravo! http://youtu.be/Y-rFT-uHm4w

Jan-19-13		Colonel Mortimer: Thanks I'll put the gun belt on my profile - that should keep hit and run artists from crossing me..

Jan-19-13		Blunderdome: I mean, guys, we're taking about the user awards for a chess website. If <harassment or retribution> are at stake we all need to seriously rethink our lives.

Jan-19-13		hms123: <Blunderdome> <we all need to seriously rethink our lives> Lives? We don't need no stinkin' lives.

Jan-21-13		frogbert: haha, hms123!

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