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The Caissars
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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).

   The Caissars has kibitzed 109 times to chessgames [more...]

   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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Jan-15-13		Abdel Irada: <SwitchingQuylthulg: But that wouldn't count for Most Informed 2012, now would it? :) > Are you usually this derisory, or am I seeing personal animus?

Jan-15-13		achieve: For Most Informed I vote: <Softpaw> I'd want to put in a fiver for this man, but it's only the one, huh? Ok.

Jan-15-13		rogge: <personal animus?> Maybe he's pulling your leg because he thinks self-nomination is silly, who knows :)

Jan-15-13		achieve: I'd say pull both his legs and floor him! double wink

Jan-15-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Abdel Irada: Are you usually this derisory, or am I seeing personal animus?> Neither. Like <rogge> says, I feel like someone who nominates himself for Most Informed (of all categories!) without even being sure what that <means> deserves a bit of needling :) And if he isn't prepared to take it, then he deserves it all the more. But I don't have anything against you really.

Jan-15-13		rogge: «nudge, nudge, wink wink, know what I mean, know what I mean, say no more, say no more!»

Jan-15-13		Abdel Irada: Yes, I admit my self-nomination was a silly thing to do. I said as much when I withdrew it, and I'd think the matter would have dropped by now. But since I'm apparently conversing with paragons of social virtue who would never make a mistake, I suppose I should expect to be insulted at every opportunity. As for knowing what the category "means," I asked because it is ambiguous, as evidenced by at least one poster's misinterpretation, and I don't have the benefit of several years' experience on the site to guide me. You may, however, want to consider predicating your judgment of me on more than one datum. Unless, of course, you don't mind being unjust.

Jan-15-13		bubuli55: My votes: < SwitchingQuylthulg > best game collection. < twinlark > most informed.

Jan-15-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Abdel Irada> If my judgment of you were as negative as you seem to think, I wouldn't bother criticizing you. I only tend to criticize those I deem sensible enough to listen :) I apologize if you feel insulted by what I said; I didn't mean to insult you. I don't even hold your self-nomination against you - as you said, we all make mistakes at times, and you're man enough to admit to this one - it just appeals to me as a source of delicious irony :)

Jan-15-13		Abdel Irada: <...it just appeals to me as a source of delicious irony> And that is what I meant about "one datum." Do you really feel that you can judge my erudition on all matters from my uncertainty as to which of two possible meanings someone else attaches to an ambiguous phrase? If so, perhaps I should challenge you to tell us, for example, everything you know about the history of the Battle of Ain Jalut (without looking it up). And while you're at it, explain why linguists have referred to "the structural genius of the Arabic language." Now, of course, I would be a perfect fool to condemn you as an ignoramus if you failed to give me the answer to either or both of these questions. But to do so would be essentially analogous to the judgment you appear to have passed on me. This said, I do make mistakes, and plenty of them. But I also try to confess to and learn from them in order not to repeat them; after all, it's much more fun making new mistakes. In this case, I think the lesson, such as it was, has been learned, and further "needling" is unnecessary. I begin to feel like a pincushion.

Jan-15-13		hms123: Vote <Phony Benoni> Best Game Collection <twinlark> and <SwithingQuylthulg> Most Informed

Jan-15-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Abdel Irada> You make plenty of good points, but the delicious irony does not involve judgment, merely simple observation. The sheer image of the most informed member at Chessgames asking what Most Informed means strikes me as highly amusing :) Rest assured I won't pass judgment on you based on limited data - but it would, indeed, be a good idea to drop this.

Jan-15-13		LoveThatJoker: I vote <hms123> for Most Informed. LTJ

Jan-15-13		Abdel Irada: <The sheer image of the most informed member at Chessgames asking what Most Informed means strikes me as highly amusing> Why? Since no one's knowledge is perfect, there is no incongruity in even a very well-informed individual confessing that he doesn't know something. Indeed, it could be argued that by such honest admissions one becomes better informed. To me at least, the worst course of action, when one is unsure of something, is to pretend that one knows; this only ensures that one will never learn it.

Jan-15-13		Abdel Irada: <KKDEREK: Voting: <suentous po> Best Game Collection> By "suentous po," do you by any chance mean <suenteus po 147>?

Jan-15-13		OhioChessFan: Let's enjoy the proceedings and take disagreements to the Argue page. I vote <kevin86> best games collection.

Jan-15-13		moronovich: <To me at least, the worst course of action, when one is unsure of something, is to pretend that one knows;> But sometimes it works on dates.And poker too ;)

Jan-15-13		Annie K.: Aifink <cg> needs another rest day. And possibly a drink. :) http://cheezburger.com/4417237504

Jan-15-13		OhioChessFan: <KKD> the gentle hint was that you needed to post the correct user name to ensure the vote was counted. I'd recommend deleting and reposting.

Jan-15-13		Diademas: Since I'm clearly not the most informed here: Could we get a list of the nominees? Thanks.

Jan-15-13		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Diademas> You can find an unofficial nominee list here: The Caissars chessforum But as an official list hasn't been posted yet, it's likely voting on today's categories will be extended.

Jan-15-13		OhioChessFan: Unofficial, list compiled by Annie and posted on page 8: <Most Informed> Achieve, Annie K., Everyone, frogbert, FSR, hms123, jessicafischerqueen, OhioChessFan, perfidious, Phony Benoni, Rogge, Softpaw, SwitchingQuylthulg, Travis Bickle, twinlark, WannaBe

Jan-15-13		OhioChessFan: Unofficial, list compiled by Annie and posted on page 8. Sorry I didn't bother to create links: <Best Game Collection> Benzol Crawfb5 kevin86 - Game Collection: polygamy or what's an extra Q among friends? Phony Benoni - Game Collection: Game of the Day Pun Index (A-C) suenteus po 147 SwitchingQuylthulg - Game Collection: Uneventful, everyday, dull draws TheAlchemist - Game Collection: The Game Of The Year (1851 - ) TheFocus whiteshark

Jan-15-13		Diademas: Thank you <SQ> and <OCF>.

Jan-15-13		benjinathan: i VOTE: MOST INFORMED <FROGBERT>

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