<The move that finished the 2016 World Championship>

It is feasible. I remember several years ago I logged on and a pop up informing me of something immediately took up the whole screen, the moment I logged on.

Does that suggest someone voted twice, or the system recorded a vote twice, or is it just some strange coincidence?>

Most likely one voter simply copied a previous voter's comment; which presumably was why two of the comments about <Phony Benoni>'s avatar were <makes me smile whenever I see it. :-)>

<zanzibar: <<td> ... Hilary Clinton ...>

Sure she never loses? Looks like she lost a "l" right from the get-go.>

This is where you're confused. You're talking about failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. <TD> is referring to his attorney, Hilary Clinton, who never loses.

(Now, if she *did* lose an "l," she would become Hiary Clinton, and would have to retire on account of all the people thinking her first name was Hairy.)

I just planted some

User: blue

User: links

User: 4444

User: fun

You can't submit a comment about any candidate unless you're voting for that candidate; CG's software would just ignore your comment if you tried (since the only way it can tell which candidate you're talking about is by looking at your vote). Nor can you plant blue links without voting, since this year a nomination is a vote.

While the nominating and voting take place at the same time now

nomination and voting should be two separate processes.

I thought that

- the fields <Your vote (URL)> and <Comments> belong to the nomination 'only'.

- double nominations are allowed

while the voting consists of

- setting a tick mark aside one of the candidates and

- then click "Submit vote(s)"

<You can't submit a comment about any candidate unless you're voting for that candidate> I just did it in the nomination process without voting.

As said I didn't make any hook in a check box and I didn't click "Submit vote(s)"

The checkbox is an easy way to vote for something that's already on the list without needing to figure out what the URL is. Clicking a checkbox is the exact same action as typing in the URL.

<technical draw: <Just a very minor gripe from the minority of member(s) who still use Java here. =))>

My Java doesn't work here either.>

Do you still drink Folger's?

Next year we'll talk about adding creative new categories and do all voting at the same time. We spit it up into two phases this year out of fear that the software might be totally bonkers.

So between now and next January we can discuss ideas to make this process more fun and streamlined. There's no better forum to use for such talk as this one.

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That aside, the envelope please...

As seen from Caissars Voting Page page now with tallies visible, the winner of

<BEST GAME COLLECTION> by a landslide is Game Collection: That's strange.

<MOST INFORMED> User: SwitchingQuylthulg, and keypusher deserves credit although trailing by several votes.

<BEST HISTORIAN> received a lot of interest and in the end the winner was User: Stonehenge who edged out zanzibar by a solitary vote.

The <PLAYER OF THE YEAR> — the most voted upon category — is a split this year, with 15 votes apiece for both Magnus Carlsen and Wesley So, both of whom were no doubt highlights of the year.

The <MOVE OF THE YEAR> by nearly unanimous agreement was the pretty 50.♕h6!! shot ending the WCC from Carlsen vs Karjakin, 2016 allowing Carlsen to retain the title.

The <GAME OF THE YEAR> is Caruana vs Nakamura, 2016 from the London Chess Classic (2016). It's rare to see a true positional queen sacrifice flow so easily.