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| Jan-06-14 | | TheFocus: <Annie K.> is correct. My nomination for Best Profile should be nullified. My Profile was created only two days ago and is not eligible for this year's Caissars. None of the present content was a part of my 2013 Profile. |
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Jan-06-14
 | | offramp: <Annie K.: <offramp> just to clarify, are you nominating crawfb5's collection for Best Collection, or just explaining why you nominated him for Best Historian?> It is two nominations. |
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Jan-06-14
 | | Richard Taylor: No Carlsen's an Android - I'm reading Philp K. Dick's book. He has an artificially high IQ...he clearly needs to be retired. And there is no irrefutable proof he is the "best"...we have to define "best". |
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Jan-06-14
| | Richard Taylor: I nominate everyone for everything. |
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Jan-06-14
| | Richard Taylor: <offramp: Funniest Poster II. For throwing spanners in the works of discussions that have forgotten that chess is just a game. For shattering walls of bombast and gravitas with tewhatewhas of humour and taiahas of levity: Funniest Poster: <Richard Taylor>. > Danke...I'll have to nominate you for the wittiest and most wonderful British eccentric - perhaps a little waspish and (well say no more) but certainly a discerning man with wonderful insight: someone not blind to my near infinite genius. A man who can talk about taiahas is a man indeed! Kia ora! Actually all my relatives are of English derivation...no Yanks or devious Irish (sorry Dom!) in our lot. The Scottish are the ones though - a devious and dubious lot... |
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Jan-06-14
| | Richard Taylor: "Levity' ..."taiahas of levity"! Very good! |
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Jan-06-14
| | Richard Taylor: And boomerangs of irrelevance? |
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| Jan-06-14 | | Everyone: <Richard Taylor: I nominate everyone for everything.> I'm highly honoured by your nominations. |
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| Jan-06-14 | | DcGentle: I nominate <DaringSpeculator> for Best Avatar. I simply like Duke's hat. :-) |
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| Jan-06-14 | | DcGentle: Here there are my nominations for Best Game:
Aronian vs Anand, 2013
Anand vs Carlsen, 2013
Wang Hao vs A Giri, 2013
Maybe some of them were already nominated, so consider these as seconded. |
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| Jan-06-14 | | MarkFinan: <FSR: <chancho: I nominate <The Caissars> for best Avatar.>
That appears to violate this rule:
• You may not nominate Chessgames administrative accounts for any category.> What a spanner!! What is it with American's? Does any humour that doesn't involve knock knock jokes just sail above their heads? There's being a geek, (which I now proudly call myself Btw) and there's naive, numptie, nerdy.... nerdiness! 😆 <FSR> (Btw, why add your middle initial? It's a presidential thing? Of course you don't have a superiority complex!).. I hope it is funny haha, and not funny strange! Lol, but then again I don't spend all day on the Rogoff page having an intellectual peeing contest with the other oddballs, so I probably am funnyStrange to you. And what's wrong with <Richard Taylor>? I don't want to break rule #3 this year, starting now, so I better shut my trap! |
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| Jan-06-14 | | wordfunph: i nominate..
1. Best Avatar <Sneaky> 2. Best Username <notyetagm> 3. Most Helpful <hms123> 4. Best Post
5. Funniest Poster <technical draw> 6. Most Constructive <cro777> 7. Best Profile <parisattack> 8. Best Analysis <Iskubadayb> 9. Best Game Collection <Phony Benoni> 10. Most Informed <SwitchingQuylthulg> 11. Best Historian <jessicafischerqueen> 12. Best/Worst Pun of the Year
13. Player of the Year <Magnus Carlsen> 14. Game of the Year
Thank you. |
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Jan-06-14
 | | Annie K.: <wordfunph: <9. Best Game Collection <Phony Benoni>>> Which game collection? |
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Jan-06-14
| | Annie K.: < 2014 Caissars Nominations (so far) <<<<>>>>> <1. Best Avatar <->> <2 nominations and in> Annie K., chancho, hms123, ketchuplover, Perfidious, Phony Benoni, technical draw, YouRang <1 nomination, awaits second> Artar1, Benzol, condition, DaringSpeculator, DcGentle, GingerGM, harrylime, HeMateMe, john barleycorn, MarkFinan, moronovich, Nf3em, nimh, Octavia, russsshurig, Sneaky, Tabanus, twinlark <2. Best Username <->> <2 nominations and in> checkmateyourmove
<1 nomination, awaits second> DrStrangemove, Everyone, john barleycorn, lost in space, MarkFinan, Nf3em, notyetagm, Phony Benoni, playground player, RandomVisitor, SetNoEscapeOn, SoUnwiseTheKnight B4, SwitchingQuylthulg, The Chess Express <3. Most Helpful <->> <2 nominations and in> FSR, hms123, notyetagm, Phony Benoni, tabanus
<1 nomination, awaits second> Thanh Phan, Shams, tpstar, whiteshark, wordfunph
<4. Best Post <->> <2 nominations and in> Karpova - Karpova chessforum <1 nomination, awaits second> Arihant - Anand-Carlsen World Championship (2013) john barleycorn - TheFocus chessforum OhioChessFan - Odd Lie Shams - Carlsen vs Anand, 2013 Wyatt Gwyon - Anand-Carlsen World Championship (2013) <5. Funniest Poster <->> <2 nominations and in> dakgootje, hedgeh0g, john barleycorn, OhioChessFan, technical draw, TheFocus <1 nomination, awaits second> Annie K., LIFE Master AJ, MarkFinan, Once, PinnedPiece, Richard Taylor <6. Most Constructive <->> <2 nominations and in> hms123, WinKing, wordfunph
<1 nomination, awaits second> Annie K., cro777, csmath, MarkFinan, notyetagm, offramp, Phony Benoni, Random Visitor <7. Best Profile <->> <2 nominations and in> Domdaniel, MarkFinan
<1 nomination, awaits second> Check It Out, jessicafischerqueen, john barleycorn, LIFE Master AJ, parisattack <8. Best Analysis <->> <2 nominations and in> csmath, hugin, imag, kwid, notyetagm, YouRang
<1 nomination, awaits second> ajile, Conrad93, David2009, Iskubadayb, Jimfromprovidence, Tabanus <9. Best Game Collection <->> <2 nominations and in> Game Collection: 1970 Buenos Aires (by <TheFocus>) <1 nomination, awaits second> Game Collection: Puzzle of the Day 2013 (by <Phony Benoni>) Game Collection: Stanley - Rousseau 1845 match (by <crawfb5>) |
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Jan-06-14
| | Annie K.: <10. Most Informed <->> <2 nominations and in> Domdaniel, FSR, kwid, Shams, SwitchingQuylthulg
<1 nomination, awaits second> Karpova, Kinghunt, MarkFinan, OhioChessFan, SimonWebbsTiger, tpstar <11. Best Historian <->> <2 nominations and in> crawfb5, cro777, Karpova, jessicafischerqueen, suenteus po 147, tabanus, thomastonk <1 nomination, awaits second> whiteshark
<12. Best/Worst Pun of the Year <->> <2 nominations and in> "Dial Emms for Murder" (D P Wheeler vs Emms, 2005) "Jeepers Kuipers, How'd You Beat Art Pijpers?"
(S Kuipers vs A Pijpers, 2007) "Olly Olly Albin Free!" (E N Olly vs Albin, 1893) "Rudolf the Dread Knows Rainer" (H Rudolf vs R Bezler, 2001) "Slaughterhouse d5" (Team White vs Team Black, 2013) <1 nomination, awaits second> "Called Out for Interference" (V Osnos vs J Yuchtman, 1969) "Drawn and Quartered" (A Petrov vs P Journoud, 1863) "Game of Thrones" (Anand vs Carlsen, 2013) "They Tried to Make Me Go to Raheb" (D Raheb vs H R Jung, 2008) <13. Player of the Year <->> <2 nominations and in> Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Boris Gelfand, Borislav Ivanov, Wei Yi, Hou Yifan <1 nomination, awaits second> Jonathan Hawkins, Vladimir Kramnik
<14. Game of the Year <->> <2 nominations and in> Aronian vs Anand, 2013
Shredder vs Gull, 2013
Nakamura vs Gelfand, 2013
Kamsky vs Mamedyarov, 2013
Carlsen vs Aronian, 2013
Anand vs Carlsen, 2013
<1 nomination, awaits second> Ivanchuk vs Kramnik, 2013
M Vachier-Lagrave vs N Vitiugov, 2013
Svidler vs Karjakin, 2013
Wang Hao vs A Giri, 2013
Caruana vs Adams, 2013
Carlsen vs Anand, 2013
Anand vs Carlsen, 2013 |
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Jan-06-14
 | | WannaBe: I, hereby second the following:
Best Username: <DrStrangemove> Most Constructive: <Annie K.>, <Phony Benoni> Best Historian: <whiteshark> |
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Jan-07-14
 | | HeMateMe: Nominating for game of the year:
<Gelfand vs Caruana, 2013> <Nakamura vs Karjakin, 2013> <A Ushenina vs Yifan Hou, 2013> I don't think anyone nominated any of Hou's games for GOTY. She blew out Ushenina 5.5 -- 1.5 in their match. This game was exciting, very tactical. |
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Jan-07-14
| | HeMateMe: I'd like to submit this as post of the year. Rather than reference a page, it might just be easier to put up a copy of the post (from user JohnBarleycorn). It details Kasparov's account of the collapse of the PCA, which to me rings true: john barleycorn: http://en.chessbase.com/post/garry-...
<The PCA was not a big organization ...It had commercial sponsorship, the only time in the history of chess that we had the sponsorship of a blue-chip company, Intel. There was a two year contract. It had never happened before and hasn’t happened since. ... One of the incidents worth mentioning is that in 1995 we introduced a code of ethics, under pressure from Intel. We needed to protect the sponsors and organizers. It was ‘anti-Kamsky,’ nobody tried to hide that.... Then in Linares that year the players, led by Karpov and others, signed a petition to protect what they called their “human rights” against this code of ethics. This petition was not missed by Intel and it did not make them very happy. You could dislike what I did, you could call me the hijacker of the world championship, but at the end of the day I brought commercial sponsorship. We struggled but we ran some great events, the Grand Prix was unprecedented. Kramnik, Anand, Ivanchuk, they made a lot of money and they thrived thanks to these events. And there was not a word of support from them. There was no support from the elite but there were plenty of complaints and attacks and Intel saw this.”> <At the same time, the PCA ran into a brick wall when Intel declined to renew their sponsorship of the Grand Prix. The conventional wisdom now is that Intel pulled the plug when Kasparov played Deep Blue under the auspices of IBM, an Intel competitor. You can see the frustration in Kasparov’s face when he hears this story yet again.“November, 1995 is when chess really hit its low. This was a crucial moment and it is important to clear this up. Everyone simply repeats the fairy tale that Intel pulled its sponsorship of the PCA because I played Deep Blue. Every player and journalist just repeats this. At the end of November, 1995, I was in London in the office of Rod Alexander [whose sports promotion company, SBI, had Intel Europe as a client], and we got a call from Intel Europe. Intel Europe, in Germany, they backed our idea, but they reported to the Intel board. And the board rejected the sponsorship proposal. We wanted two more years, and they supported us in Europe, but the board rejected it. That was at the end of November, 1995, and I nearly died when I heard the news. Why? They didn’t give their reasons, but the Germans told us, unofficially, that there had been bad reports. That chess was struggling, having an endless internal war, and that the PCA had failed to build up an internal administrative structure. Yes, everything was true. That is why I don’t want these Grandmasters hiding in the corners. I made mistakes, fine, but the fact that Intel stopped their sponsorship is due to the lack of support and unity in the chess world at that time and everyone was responsible. Those who wrote the letters, complained, and blocked unification have their share of responsibility. Intel did not want to be associated with it anymore. I raised the PCA, I protected it, I fought as hard as I could to keep Intel and I failed.> |
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Jan-07-14
| | offramp: I second <hehateme>'s nomination of that <johnbarleycorn> quote. |
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Jan-07-14
| | offramp: Pun: < July 16: Timman Danaos et Dona Ferentes>. |
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| Jan-07-14 | | technical draw: This is serious business. I heard that first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado, second place is a set of steak knives and third place is you're fired form chess games. My people better star voting soon or I'll use the steak knives for other than steaks. |
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Jan-07-14
| | WannaBe: <technical draw> You're gonna blind-fold yourself and throw them knives at a woman on a spinning wheel?? |
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| Jan-07-14 | | Jim Bartle: Is that what T Baldwin said? |
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| Jan-07-14 | | john barleycorn: <WannaBe: <technical draw> You're gonna blind-fold yourself and throw them knives at a woman on a spinning wheel??> No need to blindfold him. The result will be the same. However, his stage name will be changed to <mortally throw>. |
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| Jan-07-14 | | TheFocus: Why would anyone give knives to a baby?
This is not good parenting judgment. |
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