The Caissars Member since Dec-28-12 Welcome to << The Caissars >> From Wednesday April 15th to Wednesday April 29th we will be collecting votes for the 2019 Chessgames Caissars. Our automated Caissar voting booth will allow all Chessgames members to vote for the games, members, collections, avatars, players, and moves that really made 2019 a year to remember. To vote, visit Caissars Voting Page. (You must be a registered member.) <BEST AVATAR> — Who has the prettiest avatar? <BEST USERNAME> — The best screen-name. <MOST HELPFUL> — The one who is always there when you need them. <MOST CONSTRUCTIVE> — The one who contributes the most to CG. <FUNNIEST POSTER> — The one who always makes you laugh. <BEST POST> — The best chess-related post. <BEST OFFTOPIC POST> — The best post unrelated to chess. <BEST GAME COLLECTION> — The best game collection. <MOST INFORMED> — The one who's got all the facts at their fingertips. <BEST HISTORIAN> — The King of the Biographer Bistro. <PLAYER OF THE YEAR> — The chess player of note this year. <BEST PUN> — The most laugh (groan) inducing pun. <GAME OF THE YEAR> — The best game of 2019. <MOVE OF THE YEAR> — The most amazing move of 2019. Everybody is invited to come here and cast your votes on these categories. For more information, see the post The Caissars chessforum (kibitz #2274).

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May-03-20 The Caissars chessforum    The Caissars: Thank you for participating in the 2019 Caissars! We apologize for the very delayed start, which probably contributed to the difficulty of selecting deserving candidates, and will do our best to run the Caissars at the beginning of January in the future. <And now here are ...      Jan-17-18 Carlsen vs Kramnik, 2018    The Caissars: It’s not too late to cast your votes at our Caissars Voting Page for the best chess/Chessgames of 2017. We’ll announce the winners shortly after this game.      Jan-13-17 So vs Carlsen, 2017    The Caissars: <OFF TOPIC> For those who haven't voted in our annual award ceremony, the Caissars, be sure to visit the Caissars Voting Page and cast your vote for the best chess of 2016.      Jan-02-15 chessgames.com chessforum    The Caissars: ♖ NOTICE ♖ It is an annual tradition of Chessgames to begin the new year looking back at the previous. We're celebrating 2015 as we salute 2014, and offer these 14 categories available for awards: 2. Best Username 3. Most Helpful 4. Best Post 5. Funniest ...      Jan-02-15 Kibitzer's Café    The Caissars: ♖ NOTICE ♖ It is an annual tradition of Chessgames to begin the new year looking back at the previous. We're celebrating 2015 as we salute 2014, and offer these 14 categories available for awards: 2. Best Username 3. Most Helpful 4. Best Post 5. Funniest ...      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.

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 19 OF 89 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jan-14-13    Blunderdome: I vote for <Thanh Phan> for Best Profile. Not sure why this nomination wasn't included in the list. I assume it's a clerical error. I vote for <Ceri> and <Nickster> for Best Analysis. Jan-14-13    Blunderdome: In an attempt not to mess up the ballot-counting software, I'm adding (in a separate post that doesn't include the v-word) honorable mentions for frogbert and imag in the analysis category. Can only vote for two, though. Jan-14-13    Annie K.: <Blunderdome> looks like error - it may have helped to address <cg> or <The Caissars> by name in your heads-up post yesterday. :) Here we go: <The Caissars> there has been a nomination for <Thanh Phan> for best Profile after my last update, but still within the time bracket. Please add her name to the list. Jan-14-13    bubuli55: I vote < Tal7777777 > for best profile. I vote < Iskubadayb > and < Ulhumbrus > best analysis. Jan-14-13    TheFocus: I vote for <jessicafischerqueen> and <Benzol> for best profile and <Eyal> for best analysis. Jan-14-13    Domdaniel: Voting: Profile: <Thanh Phan> Analysis: <Eyal> Jan-14-13    DoubleAction: Vote: < Tal7777777 > profile < Iskubadayb > analysis Jan-14-13    SwitchingQuylthulg: I vote <Domdaniel> for Best Profile. Jan-14-13    Check It Out: I vote <Eyal> and <cro777> best analysis. Jan-14-13    OhioChessFan: I vote for <DcGentle> and <Ceri> for best analysis Jan-14-13    The Caissars: <Blunderdome: I vote for <Thanh Phan> for Best Profile. Not sure why this nomination wasn't included in the list. I assume it's a clerical error.> Yes it was a clerical error and we are deeply sorry for this mistake. In the interest of fairness, if anybody who already voted would like to retract their vote and vote for <Thanh Phan> instead you are welcome to do so at this time, just announce what you're doing and we'll fix it. Jan-14-13    juan31: I vote best profile <jessicafischerqueen> i vote best analysis <Golden Executive> Jan-14-13    Abdel Irada: My votes (after a regrettable and involuntary four-day absence caused by computer problems): •Although the choice was not easy, I vote for <Domdaniel> for "Best Profile." As the founding editor of MoralIntelligence.net, I could hardly do otherwise after reading this: <I'll say it again, though I can't recall saying it before: < Empathy is essential to any kind of intelligence worth having.>> •For "Best Analysis," I vote for <jimfromprovidence>, who regularly finds hidden ideas in the daily puzzles that most of the rest of us overlook or pass over. He has also taken the time to refute some faulty but plausible ideas of my own, rather than simply accepting my analysis as sound. (Honorable mention also goes to <Honza Cervenka> and <LoveThatJoker>, both of whom reliably post clear solutions and analysis not only to daily puzzles, but also, particularly in the case of the former, on numerous less perused game pages. If only I could cast a full vote for all three of these worthy contributors!) For those who have voted for me: my thanks, but I think it would be hubris to join you in that selection. After all, I've only been on the site since April, while all three of the members named above have been consistently improving the site for years. Jan-15-13    HeMateMe: Is there a list of nominees for best game collection and most informed? Jan-15-13    morfishine: I vote <Phony Benoni> for Best Game Collection I vote <JessicaFischerQueen> as most informed Jan-15-13    Abdel Irada: <chessgames.com>: Please clarify something for me before I cast my ballot: Does "Most Informed" refer to chess specifically, or to general erudition? Jan-15-13    SwitchingQuylthulg: <Abdel Irada> To put it in the simplest way possible: it refers to people who don't need to ask questions like that :) Jan-15-13    Abdel Irada: I really don't think that was called for. My question was a serious one, and I'd be surprised if I were the only user to whom it has occurred. Jan-15-13    SwitchingQuylthulg: My answer was also a serious one: the "most informed" are those who know all the answers already (as <The Caissars> said at The Caissars chessforum). Any information that comes handy at Chessgames is fair game: it doesn't need to be chess-related, but all too often it is :) Being the world expert on bees in Guatemala counts for nothing. Jan-15-13    Abdel Irada: <Being the world expert on bees in Guatemala counts for nothing.> Easy for you to say that now, but wait until an intimate knowledge of Guatemalan beekeeping techniques is instrumental in solving one of this year's Holiday Clues. Jan-15-13    SwitchingQuylthulg: But that wouldn't count for Most Informed 2012, now would it? :) Jan-15-13    HeMateMe: Voting <Benzol> best game collection, <Phony Benoni> most informed. Jan-15-13    jessicafischerqueen: I vote <SwitchingQuylthulg> for best games collection: Game Collection: Uneventful, everyday, dull draws <Uneventful, everyday, dull draws Compiled by SwitchingQuylthulg (Also known as "Zzzzzzz... The Sleepy Journey to the End of the Alphabet") The mere possibility of splitting a point is against the very nature of a fighting game. After all, you don't call wars off just because they kill people, do you? <<<Draws>>> are deadly arsenic in the veins of chess and must be eliminated to save the Royal Game. They are dull, boring, unexciting non-games the crowd hates for a very good reason. The "games" in this collection prove it.> Jan-15-13    jessicafischerqueen: I vote <twinlark> for Most Informed. Jan-15-13    Abdel Irada: My votes: •<Phony Benoni> for "Best Game Collection." •<Softpaw> for "Most Informed." Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 89) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 19 OF 89 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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