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 34 OF 89 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jan-03-14    MostlyAverageJoe: <Shams: Am I wrong or has this process become much more complicated than it used to be?> Allright, I am, singlehandedly, going to simplify the process, using the official rule, to wit: <You may second any number of nominations>. I hereby second everyone who has been nominated already by anyone else than myself, as well as anyone (other than myself) who might be nominated in the future. Jan-04-14    Check It Out: <MAJ> I'm not sure, but it might be necessary to place each category's nomination you are seconding in to brackets, i.e. <>, rather than a generic blanket seconding extending to each (and in this case) every nomination. Jan-04-14    OhioChessFan: I am confused why people are confused about a simple rule per nominations and seconding. Jan-04-14    offramp: The use of the word <second> was a mistake. Two separate nominations was all that was needed. Jan-04-14    FSR: <offramp> I correctly predicted that Carlsen would win with +3 =7 -0, but did so on Facebook rather than this site. Jan-04-14    OhioChessFan: A rather narrow area of help(a chess area no less!), but a great and unrecognized asset to the site, I nominate <notyetagm> as <Most Helpful> for keeping cg.c on their toes in regards to countless tournaments needing pages. Jan-04-14    offramp: <FSR> thanks for preserving cg's bandwidth! Jan-04-14    The Caissars: The whole purpose of seconding was to prevent joke/bad nominations from surviving to the final round. If we knew it would have opened such a can of worms we would have considered a slightly different method, perhaps one that offramp is intimating. At this point, let's just try to stick to the planned method: nominate who you like, and second other nominations that you think are worthy competitors to your picks. Please don't try to second every single nomination--technically it's in any person's power to do that but it undermines the purpose of seconding. Jan-04-14    MostlyAverageJoe: <The Caissars: ... Please don't try to second every single nomination> I was being facetious, not expecting anyone to take it seriously... Jan-04-14    jessicafischerqueen: If someone writes a novel about the 2014 Caissars, this chapter might be entitled <MAJ Finds the (not so) Secret Launch Codes> Jan-04-14    rogge: Correction <Game of the Year>: Carlsen vs Aronian, 2013 is in, seconded by <SoUnwiseTheKnight B4> (p. 30). Jan-04-14    jessicafischerqueen: I second <Ohio's> nomination of <notyetagm> for "Most Helpful Kibbutzer." Jan-04-14    TheFocus: I don't know how anyone else feels, but if you have been nominated in a category, please abstain from voting for yourself. Let the site decide. But if someone else does vote for themself, go ahead and vote for yourself to nullify their vote. Perhaps <cg> should adopt this into their rules next year. Jan-04-14    offramp: <TheFocus:...But if someone else does vote for themself...> On another site I am assisting in a collection of sightings of the word <themself> used in the wild. Do you mind if I include that one? Jan-04-14    blue wave: <Tabanus> For best analysis. Jan-04-14    TheFocus: <offramp> Please do. Jan-04-14    YouRang: Caissar nominations -- or, if any of these are already nominated, please consider them seconded (or thirded, etc.). Best Avatar: <DcGentle>, <hms123> Best Username: <lost in space>, <playground player> Most Helpful: <Thanh Phan> Funniest Poster: <Once> Most Constructive: <Annie K.>, <hms123> Best Analysis: <kwid>, <imag> Most Informed: <Shams> Player of the Year: <Magnus Carlsen> ~~~~ Suggestion for this page: I think the list of Caissar winners from last year should be shown in the profile header. After the new winners are decided, they should be posted in the header, replacing the previous year winners. (Or keep showing winners for the past N years). Jan-04-14    Domdaniel: <Ohio> -- <I nominate <notyetagm> as <Most Helpful> for keeping cg.c on their toes in regards to countless tournaments needing pages.> Not forgetting the vital role he plays on the Chessgames Forum, wrenching the topic back to chess whenever it gets distracted by ephemera. I note that <Jess> has already seconded <notyetagm> -- a name that I keep thinking should be related to paradigm or syntagm -- so this is just a superfluous comment. Uh, can I vote now? OK, vote <notyetagm> as 'most helpful'.... Jan-04-14    Domdaniel: If the Nobels have a Peace Prize, shouldn't the Caissars do the same? Those who have assisted the cause of peace on the site deserve recognition. Jan-04-14    Domdaniel: I would like to nominate <Annie K> as <funniest> poster. She makes me giggle. Not a pretty sight, incidentally. Jan-04-14    john barleycorn: <Domdaniel: If the Nobels have a Peace Prize, shouldn't the Caissars do the same? Those who have assisted the cause of peace on the site deserve recognition.> Is not the <peace nobel prize> the one that is often awarded to the wrong guys? Jan-04-14    offramp: Best Avatar: <HeMateMe>. Funny! Is it from a film? It is a picture of a fat teacher or pupil drinking rapidly from what appears to be a bottle, probably of beer. He wears a dark sweat shirt upon which one can see the word, "College". Jan-04-14    offramp: Best Username: <SoUnwiseTheKnightB4>. Placing a knight on b4 is often unwise. But if one did it yesterday then forget it, mate. FORGET IT. That is the END OF THE WORLD! Jan-04-14    offramp: Best Avatar: <Richard Taylor>. A man, possibly though not certainly Mr Taylor himself, stares gormlessly to his left. Jan-04-14    offramp: Best Avatar: <Benzol>. In a green triangle the eye of providence appears. It is an excerpt from one side of the post-1933 US dollar bill. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 89) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 34 OF 89 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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