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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-16-13		TheFocus: I vote for <All Bistro Biographers collectively> for Best Historian. (With a special salute to <Phony Benoni> as the Best of the Best.) I vote for <Control-Ault-Delete> for Best (Worse) Pun.

Jan-16-13		parmetd: Vote for <Gata catch em all> for best pun.

Jan-16-13		gauer: Vote <Phony Benoni> for best historian and <The Parent Trap> for best pun.

Jan-16-13		HeMateMe: I don't understand the "Bishop takes Pawn" pun. If it's a Yakoff Smirnoff take off, then you would need opposites: "Man arrests Cop", "man bites dog", etc.

Jan-16-13		Sneaky: HeMateMe, I agree with you about the Soviet Russia pun, although it still makes me laugh. The problem with "Vas Right Wing Conspiracy"--as funny as it is--is that Hillary Clinton is ancient history. (Well, ancient at least.) And so, my vote for best pun goes to <Gata Catch 'em All>. (For those who don't get it, it's a Pokemon joke. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVp-...) Best historian has to be <All Bistro Biographers collectively>, I don't want to pick favorites.

Jan-16-13		HeMateMe: I liked them all. I wish there had been more puns nominated.

Jan-16-13		FSR: I vote for <Graham Clayton> for Best Historian. I vote for <Zapoleon Blown Apart> for Best (Worst) Pun. Sheer genius, though Mira/Houska is also great.

Jan-17-13		HeMateMe: Split vote, chessplayer of the year, <Fabiano Caruana> and < Vishy Anand > Fabio had a breakout year, earned a spot at the table with the big boys. He's here at TaTa. Anand sucessfully defended his title, winning the match with Gelfand.

Jan-17-13		FSR: Player of the Year: <Magnus Carlsen>. 2861. Duh.

Jan-17-13		Abdel Irada: <mightor: <Abdel Irada: I know there are one or two choices that make me wonder.> Are you referring to <Southpaw> who won in the category you nominated yourself for?> Sorry to ruin your spiteful shot, but does that make any sense given that I co-nominated and voted for <Softpaw> myself? In my mind, there is no question that <Softpaw> merited that award. You need merely read his hundreds of posts on the <Kenneth Rogoff> pages, on any of a dozen different subjects, to see exactly what I mean. Across a spectrum of contentious debate on one controversial issue after another, from Israel/Palestine to GMO food labeling, in the face of sustained provocation, <Softpaw> kept his temper, meeting demagoguery, derision and deceit with reasoned argument meticulously supported by fact and documentary evidence painstakingly selected from the most credible and authoritative possible sources. He is a perfect example of precisely the kind of citizen-journalist who gives the lie to "professional" elitism, and whom I'd be proud to have as a contributing writer on my own site.

Jan-17-13		The Caissars: The envelope please... The winner of Best Historian goes to <All Bistro Biographers Collectively>. Go visit the Biographer Bistro and congratulations on their second Caissar of the year. The winner of best/worst pun is <Control-Ault-Delete> (Fischer vs R Ault, 1959). Congratulations to User: FSR for coming up with the pun and submitting it. Voting is now open for the "Player of the Year". I want to remind you that this is not necessarily the best player, it could be the nicest player, the best up-and-comer, the greatest chess benefactor--it can be whatever you want it to be. As usual put your choices in <Fancy Colored Text> if you would, thanks.

Jan-17-13		FSR: <The Caissars: ... The winner of best/worst pun is <Control-Ault-Delete> (Fischer vs R Ault, 1959). Congratulations to User: FSR for coming up with the pun and submitting it.> Thanks, everyone. <Phony Benoni>'s <Zapoleon Blown Apart> (for which I, and only I, voted) and <Mira, Mira on the Wall, Houska Fairest of Them All> (which I nominated) were far worthier IMO. But the people have spoken.

Jan-17-13		WannaBe: I vote <M. Carlsen>, since there is only one category today...

Jan-17-13		WannaBe: On be-quarter of the Bistro (since I do post there once in a while) I want to thank my agent, my mother, my pet Pekingnese, my parro D@ng that orchestra!@!@

Jan-17-13		jessicafischerqueen: I vote for <Magnus Carlsen> Player of the Year.

Jan-17-13		Abdel Irada: My vote: •<Monica Socko> as "Player of the Year" for her shocking upset of the dominant Yifan Hou, which reopens women's chess as a competitive field, perhaps encouraging more women to take part in the game.

Jan-17-13		frogbert: a bit late, since i essentially was off site more or less all of yesterday, but: thanks for the 5.5 votes i counted for myself for <most informed>! there might have been more votes since i won't see votes cast by people on my ignore list, but chances are admittedly higher that some of those on that list instead voted for the worthy winner <softpaw>! :o) ps! i still think posting the official vote counts would be a good idea. so far we've seen inconsistency in this area: some categories have had winning vote counts posted, others have not. a case for transparency international? ;o)

Jan-17-13		achieve: I'd like to break an egg, and <vote>, for <Fabiano Caruana> as Player of the Year, the young Italian moving up the ranking from place 17, into the top 5, gaining a whopping 45 rating points in twelve months in the process.

Jan-17-13		Check It Out: <FSR> Whoops, I nominated <Zapoleon blown Apart> and forgot to vote for it. A great pun!

Jan-17-13		LoveThatJoker: I vote for <Magnus Carlsen> for Player of the Year. LTJ PS. Honourable mention to WC Kramnik!

Jan-17-13		frogbert: i vote for <Magnus Carlsen> as player of the year.

Jan-17-13		gauer: Vote <Magnus Carlsen> for player of the year.

Jan-17-13		achieve: Re: <Softpaw>'s Caissar Has Softpaw perchance been "informed" of his victory via email, by the organizer(s) of these awards? Would be kinda ironic to if we wouldn't "inform" the most ........ ;) In other words, if you haven't, I would be willing and able to send him an email, but perhaps it's more apt if you do. Please let me know.

Jan-17-13		Abdel Irada: <achieve>: I tried to inform him, but I think I'm using an old email address; he cautioned me that he doesn't check it often in any case. Could you pass on any working email to me? I don't want to post my email, or have you post his, here where spammers can find it, so please contact me via my site: http://www.moralintelligence.net/co...

Jan-17-13		achieve: <Abdel> I'm afraid the address I have is over a year old, but even so I will contact you and send it via your site. Will take a bit of time, as I can't recall the first part of his then-address, so will have to "turn back the pages."

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