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 75 OF 89 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jan-22-16    gauer: A <vote for worst> (of the 2 choices) of pun of the year is cast for < Botvinnik vs W Winter, 1936 >. Jan-22-16    zanzibar: <The great historians are comparable to the great collectors in that they go all out and are generally solitary. I believe most collectors are solitary and wish to complete their collections just like completing a jigsaw puzzle. It could even be a substitute for human contact.> http://www.cs.unibo.it/~cianca/wwwp... Jan-22-16    YouRang: Today's votes: I vote <Tabanus> for Best Historian. I vote <Mr. Georgiev, Wear Down this Tal!> for Pun. Jan-22-16    WinKing: My votes for Historian & Pun of the Year: I vote for <Tabanus> for Best Historian. I vote for <Mr. Georgiev, Wear Down this Tal!> (Kiril D Georgiev vs Shaked, 1999) for Best (Worst) Pun of the Year. Jan-22-16    zanzibar: I nominate <Tab> for Lifetime Award. Vote <thomastonk> - Best Historian Vote <Mr. Georgiev, Wear Down this Tal!> - Best Pun Jan-22-16    Check It Out: I vote for <Mr. Georgiev, Wear Down This Tal!> for best (worst) pun. Jan-22-16    valiant: I vote for <ljfyffe> for Best Historian. Jan-22-16    Daniel Gong: I vote for <Wei Yi vs Lazaro Bruzon Batista> as GAME OF THE YEAR Jan-22-16    visayanbraindoctor: <Annie K.: Hi doc! I thought maybe I should mention in passing that you just won the 2015 Caissar award for Best Profile... :)> <The Caissars: The winner of the 2015 BEST PROFILE award goes to ... User: visayanbraindoctor> Wow, thank you all! Jan-22-16    FairyPromotion: I vote for <Brace Yourself, Winter is Coming> for Best Pun. Jan-22-16    FairyPromotion: <Daniel Gong: I vote for <Wei Yi vs Lazaro Bruzon Batista> as GAME OF THE YEAR> I am literally in disbelief that this game wasn't nominated for Game of the Year. Jan-23-16    The Caissars: The winner of the 2015 BEST HISTORIAN award is <Tabanus>. By a hair, the winner of the 2015 BEST/WORST PUN OF THE YEAR award is <Brace Yourself, Winter is Coming> Botvinnik vs W Winter, 1936. ♔ Today we vote on: <13. PLAYER OF THE YEAR> Nominees: Levon Aronian Magnus Carlsen Anish Giri Veselin Topalov Wei Yi <14. GAME OF THE YEAR> Nominees: D Khismatullin vs Eljanov, 2015 Navara vs R Wojtaszek, 2015 W So vs Ding Liren, 2015 Jan-23-16    FSR: <The Caissars: ... By a hair, the winner of the 2015 BEST/WORST PUN OF THE YEAR award is <Brace Yourself, Winter is Coming> Botvinnik vs W Winter, 1936.> Sickening. But I get a tie (which is bad enough): <Mr. Georgiev, Wear Down this Tal!>: 1.FSR 2.TheFocus 3.SwitchingQuylthulg 4.Keyser Soze 5.YouRang 6.WinKing 7.zanzibar 8.Check It Out <Brace Yourself, Winter is Coming>: 1.offramp 2.Annie K. 3.jessicafischerqueen 4.hms123 5.Solomon2003 6.Karposian 7.gauer 8.FairyPromotion Did someone on my ignore list vote for <Brace Yourself>? Jan-23-16    Karposian: <FSR> i have no one on ignore, and I get 8-8 too. Jan-23-16    Sarah Palin: Did ChessGames.com pull another Steve Harvey? Did you guys learn to count from Barack Obama? After President Trump takes office, you're not going to be able to get away with this crap anymore. In the meantime, I'm sending Track over to kick your ass. Jan-23-16    FSR: I vote for <Wei Yi> for Player of the Year. Jan-23-16    WinKing: My votes for Player & Game: I vote for <Levon Aronian> for Player of the Year. I vote for <W So vs Ding Liren, 2015> for Game of the Year. Jan-23-16    wordfunph: i vote for <Wei Yi> for Player of the Year. Jan-23-16    Fiona Macleod: khismattulin vs. eljanov 2015 is my game of the year and wei yi is my player of the year Jan-23-16    SwitchingQuylthulg: I vote for <Magnus Carlsen> for Player of the Year. I vote for <D Khismatullin vs Eljanov, 2015> for Game of the Year. Jan-23-16    OhioChessFan: I meant to vote for <Mr. Georgiev, Wear Down this Tal!>: at a minute before midnight, just to make it a tie, because those are the 2 best puns in cg.c history. At my age, one gets tired, and I signed off at 11:45, forgetting I hadn't voted, and was simply too tired to come back to the computer when I remembered. Jan-23-16    OhioChessFan: I agree there was a tie. Glad I didn't break the tie by voting. Jan-23-16    chancho: My vote goes to <Magnus Carlsen> for Player of the Year. In a year where inconsistency plagued him, he still won more elite tournaments than the other top players. My second vote goes to <D Khismatullin vs Eljanov, 2015> for Game of the Year. Jan-23-16    offramp: As player of the year I vote for <Anish Giri>. As game of the year I vote for the <Khismatullin - Eljanov> confection. As Worst Fanirmod I vote for <offramp>. Jan-23-16    offramp: And well done to the inventor of last year's winning pun, <Brace yourself... >, whoever he or she may be. A well-deserved although narrow victory! Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 89) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 75 OF 89 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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