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Not because I hope to win Most Informed every year ad infinitum; that streak's likely to end some year soon anyway if I don't stop spending less and less time on Chessgames. But I think the next winners should have the satisfaction of winning the vote without any doubts or reservations, knowing the voters chose them ahead of every previous winner in their category. Speaking of which...
<The Caissars: <MOST INFORMED> User: SwitchingQuylthulg, and keypusher deserves credit although trailing by several votes.> Don't forget <Sally Simpson> - he tied with <keypusher> and also deserves credit :) |
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Jan-22-17
 | | Penguincw: Congrats to all the winners, thanks for the new and improved format <cg>. I think the only suggestion I would make is next to each category, you include a short description of that category, so voters will keep in mind what to look for. Well, see you all next year. |
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Jan-22-17
 | | WannaBe: Congratulations to all the winners. Another fun-filled 2017 will surely make voting more exciting in 2018. Thank you for running the Caissar Awards, CG.
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| Jan-22-17 | | Golden Executive: Congratulations to all the winners! |
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Jan-22-17
| | WannaBe: Personal Opinion:
Caissar Award and multiple-nomination and award winners... If, if, we are to say/compare the categories to, oh, heck, Golden Glove in MLB, as one of the many, many awards that MLB gives away every year. Repeat winner at a specific base/outfield are common. Heck, there's been multiple MVPs, sometimes back-to-back (but nothing like what <TD> and his run). If you look at the NFL MVP, P. Manning have won it 5 times, (That's still half of what <TD> have, so take that Peyton!!) There are so many deserving members here, and I'll speak from the point of view of Historian and/or Most Informed, my goodness, there's probably not a single day that goes by that I'm learning something new. So, I have one vote on the best Historian, or best Informed, and I have to decide between members <A>, <B>, <C>, <D>, and possibly <E>. But <D> posts on that political forum and I disagree with <D>'s opinion. So, out goes <D>. No, I am kidding... =)) By limiting one member, one vote, make the counting easier (computer or by-hand), but that really, really put the onus on the members of CG that decided to vote. And who may only be here 2 hours a week. This is not like voting for MLB/NBA/NFL/NHL MVP where I can go online and get the stats for that season, or even Academy Award where DVDs of the movies up for consideration are in my mail-box. Members who (decides) to vote, (hopefully) made an effort, to decide which pun was the absolute worst, which game collection was truly the best. (What is the qualification for that category?? Can I gather up a bunch of games that have A00 openings and then give it a funny name?) (<Phony Benoni>, your winning collection this year was the best, I hastily played through 3 or 4 of the games with the most interesting titles, and they are the best!!) The game where black had 4 pawns stacked 2x2 right in the center was hilarious. Don't think anyone will every see another position like that again. Plus your intro had me laughing so hard... Congrats to the Funniest, too. Waaaaaaaaay too long over-due. Anyway, I'm gonna stop rambling here, Caissar is (supposed) to be fun, and let's keep it fun. If I want to divide by vote into 10 pieces, so be it. Or let what <OhioChessFan> did once, fractional vote such that it ended up in tie due to repeating decimal 9s. Peace, Out. =)) |
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Jan-22-17
| | WannaBe: Oh, <Phony Benoni>, since you're a librarian, that 'Waaaaaaaay too long over-due' was no-pun intended. =)) |
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| Jan-22-17 | | Golden Executive: Caissars Awards Update <un-official> Part 1/3
<Best Avatar>
2004 - tamar
2005 - tamar, YouRang
2006 - Phony Benoni, technical draw, Yelena Dembo 2007 - Red October
2008 - technical draw
2009 - Red October
2010 - Travis Bickle
2011 - WannaBe
2012 - parmetd
2013 - Annie K.
2014 - YouRang
2015 - YouRang
2016 - Phony Benoni
<Best Username> 2004 - suenteus po 147
2005 - HannibalSchlecter, suenteus po 147, tpstardefender 2006 - iamverywellatchess
2007 - Resignation Trap
2008 - Woody Wood Pusher
2009 - ILikeFruits, VaselineTopLove, whatthefat 2010 - jessicafischerqueen, Once, SwitchingQuylthulg 2011 - Resignation Trap
2012 - Phony Benoni
2013 - notyetagm
2014 - Cheapo by the Dozen
2015 - perfidious
2016 - DrStrangemove
<Most Helpful> 2004 - tpstar
2005 - tpstar
2006 - WannaBe
2007 - WannaBe
2008 - brankat, hms123
2009 - zanshin
2010 - Phony Benoni
2011 - hms123
2012 - hms123
2013 - hms123
2014 - WannaBe
2015 - Penguincw
2016 - Penguincw
<Best Post>
2004 - IMlday
2005 - tpstar
2006 - JoeWms, mahmoudkubba, tpstar
2007 - Domdaniel
2008 - Domdaniel
2009 - GoSo
2010 - Domdaniel
2011 - Once
2012 - john barleycorn
2013 - tpstar
2014 - Phony Benoni
2015 - Stevie King
2016 - suenteus po 147
<Best Offtopic Post> 2016 - PawnSac
<Funniest Kibitzer> 2004 - Lawrence, offramp
2005 - tpstar
2006 - WannaBe
2007 - technical draw
2008 - technical draw
2009 - technical draw
2010 - technical draw
2011 - technical draw
2012 - technical draw
2013 - technical draw
2014 - technical draw
2015 - WannaBe
2016 - Phony Benoni
<Most Constructive> 2004 - iron maiden
2005 - cu8sfan
2006 - Sneaky, twinlark
2007 - brankat
2008 - Red October
2009 - hms123
2010 - chancho
2011 - wordfunph
2012 - Bistro Biographers
2013 - cro777,wordfunph
2014 - wordfunph
2015 - Annie K., Golden Executive
2016 - Annie K.
<Best Profile> 2004 - nikolaas
2005 - Larsker
2006 - Hesam7
2007 - jessicafischerqueen
2008 - malthrope
2009 - malthrope
2010 - malthrope
2011 - brankat, jessicafischerqueen
2012 - jessicafischerqueen
2013 - Domdaniel
2014 - Domdaniel
2015 - visayanbraindoctor |
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| Jan-22-17 | | Golden Executive: Part 2/3
<Best Analysis> 2004 - Honza Cervenka
2005 - patzer2
2006 - Honza Cervenka
2007 - mateo
2008 - Eyal
2009 - Eyal
2010 - Iskubadayb
2011 - dzechiel
2012 - Eyal
2013 - Eyal
2014 - DaringSpeculator, csmath
2015 - cro777
<Best Game Collection> 2004 - Benjamin Lau
2005 - RonB52734
2006 - suenteus po 147
2007 - suenteus po 147
2008 - KingG
2009 - Phony Benoni
2010 - crawfb5
2011 - crawfb5, Phony Benoni
2012 - Phony Benoni
2013 - TheFocus
2014 - notyetagm
2015 - Phony Benoni
2016 - Phony Benoni
<Most Informed> 2004 - acirce
2005 - acirce
2006 - acirce
2007 - acirce
2008 - percyblakeney
2009 - achieve
2010 - wordfunph
2011 - tpstar
2012 - Softpaw
2013 - Karpova
2014 - SwitchingQuylthulg
2015 - SwitchingQuylthulg
2016 - SwitchingQuylthulg
<Best Historian> 2004 - SBC
2005 - Benzol, SBC
2006 - Resignation Trap
2007 - nescio
2008 - malthrope
2009 - malthrope
2010 - jessicafischerqueen
2011 - jessicafischerqueen
2012 - Bistro Biographers
2013 - jessicafischerqueen
2014 - Tabanus
2015 - Tabanus
2016 - Stonehenge
<Best/Worst Pun> 2006 - Kasparov vs Ehlvest, 1978 ("Ehlvest Has Left the Building") 2007 - Mamedyarov vs Ivanchuk, 2007 ("Mamed Said Knock You Out") 2008 - Carlsen vs Aronian, 2008 ("Bilbao Baggins") 2009 - Yifan Hou vs Short, 2008 ("Hou Wears Short's Shorts"), Spassky vs Fischer, 1992 ("No Country for Old Men") 2010 - S Hosea vs P A Fontaine, 2009 ("Do You Know the Way to San Hosea?") 2011 - Akobian vs The World, 2011 ("Drawma Queen") 2012 - Fischer vs R Ault, 1959 ("Control-Ault-Delete") 2013 - S Kuipers vs A Pijpers, 2007 ("Jeepers Kuipers, How'd You Beat Art Pijpers?") 2014 - The World vs Arkadij Naiditsch ("Suffering from c6-ness") 2015 - Kiril D Georgiev vs Shaked, 1999 ("Mr. Georgiev, Wear Down this Tal!"), Botvinnik vs W Winter, 1936 "(Brace Yourself, Winter is Coming") 2016 - Alburt vs M Ruderfer, 1970 ("Pins Alburt in a Kann") <Player of the Year> 2012 - Magnus Carlsen
2013 - Magnus Carlsen
2014 - Magnus Carlsen
2015 - Magnus Carlsen, Wei Yi
2016 - Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So
<Game of the Year> 2013 - Aronian vs Anand
2014 - Topalov vs F Vallejo Pons
2015 - D Khismatullin vs Eljanov
2016 - Caruana vs Nakamura
<Move of the Year> 2016 - 50.♕h6!! Carlsen vs Karjakin, Queen sac to end the WCC <Special Life-Time Achievement Award> 2009 - Sneaky
2010 - Honza Cervenka |
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| Jan-22-17 | | Golden Executive: Part 3/3
<puns> As an addendum to the list above, quite a few people unofficially voted for Best/Worst Pun in 2005; Yanofsky vs J Therien, 1947 ("I concede clearly now; Therien is gone.") had the most supporters, but was not officially declared a Caissar winner. E Torre vs Tarjan, 1983 ("Me Tarjan, Eugene!") received some support despite not being a 2005 pun; it would probably have won in 2004 if the category had existed then (though it was originally used in 2003 and reused in 2004). Chiburdanidze vs Panno, 1992 ("I Wish I was an Oscar-Maia Winner") is another classic 2004 pun. |
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Jan-22-17
| | WannaBe: Yanofsky vs J Therien, 1947 That pun was first used in Nov. 11 2005. If you look at the first page of posts, moi was the first to kibit'z on the game. I would have to go back to the "historical archives" and see why it was not officially declared a winner. Let y'all know later of my findings. Historical research, I love it! =)) |
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Jan-22-17
| | WannaBe: Boy, that research did not take "too" long, CG.com had reused it as part of 'Blast from the Past'... Yanofsky vs J Therien, 1947 |
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Jan-22-17
| | WannaBe: The first Pun award was given for 2006, which means it was voted on in 2007, so the game/pun in question was from 2005. |
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Jan-23-17
 | | offramp: <Golden Executive: Part 3/3
<puns> As an addendum to the list above, quite a few people unofficially voted for Best/Worst Pun in 2005; Yanofsky vs J Therien, 1947 ("I concede clearly now; Therien is gone.") had the most supporters, but was not officially declared a Caissar winner.> How often are you going to tell us this? |
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Jan-23-17
| | SwitchingQuylthulg: <Golden Executive> Thanks for updating the list again! It's now possible to force a linebreak by adding a backslash to the end of the line, so you can make the list look cleaner; for example, this... 2004 - tamar
2005 - tamar, YouRang
2006 - Phony Benoni, technical draw, Yelena Dembo \
2007 - Red October
...will give you this:
2004 - tamar
2005 - tamar, YouRang
2006 - Phony Benoni, technical draw, Yelena Dembo
2007 - Red October
This is a new feature that was introduced a few months ago. -------------------
<Best Pun> In 2005 the Caissars were still organized by <nikolaas> and held in December rather than January. Best Game of the Day Pun hadn't been a category in 2004 and originally wasn't supposed to be a category in 2005 either; but <nikolaas> noted on December 6, 2005 (<Kibitzer's Café (kibitz #43662)>) that there was popular interest in such a category, and on December 18 (<Kibitzer's Café (kibitz #45856)>) he announced that there would be an official Caissar for the best Game of the Day pun. He opened the Best Pun vote on December 19 (<Kibitzer's Café (kibitz #46039)>), but never posted a list of nominees (like he'd done for every other category) and never announced an official winner. As noted, the would-have-been winner was "I concede clearly now; Therien is gone." Very few users actually voted on December 19, 2005; far more people voiced their opinions on December 18 (which <nikolaas> had apparently intended to be a day of nominations) than on the actual voting day, and some users who had nominated or unofficially voted for a Best Pun earlier in December didn't show up to revote on either of those days. It's possible that this very high level of confusion about when the Best Pun vote was actually supposed to happen (which undoubtedly resulted from the new category being added mid-process) was why <nikolaas> didn't announce an official winner; though "I concede clearly now; Therien is gone." had the most support at every stage and would have topped the results no matter which votes were considered valid. <WannaBe> took over from <nikolaas> in 2006 and made Best/Worst Pun a regular category. |
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Jan-23-17
| | WannaBe: <Switch> Thank goodness the line break is not the other slash. =)) |
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Jan-23-17
| | WannaBe: Wooo, I found a new use for the manual line breaks. (more like unintended side-effect). Hehehehehe... |
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| Jan-23-17 | | Golden Executive: <offramp: <Golden Executive: Part 3/3 <puns> As an addendum to the list above, quite a few people unofficially voted for Best/Worst Pun in 2005; Yanofsky vs J Therien, 1947 ("I concede clearly now; Therien is gone.") had the most supporters, but was not officially declared a Caissar winner.> How often are you going to tell us this?> 5 or 6 times a year I think ;)
Well, now seriously, I hope some day The Caissars Awards manager create a sort of Hall of Fame like at the Bookie game where we have a link to see the all time winners. |
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| Jan-23-17 | | Golden Executive: <SwitchingQuylthulg: <Golden Executive> Thanks for updating the list again!
It's now possible to force a linebreak by adding a backslash to the end of the line, so you can make the list look cleaner> Great, I have been struggling with this so many times. Thanks! |
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Jan-24-17
| | offramp: I voted for YOU! |
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| Jan-25-17 | | posoo: WHERE IS da vote totals for da FIRST week of awurds, da only time posoo HAD A CHANCE?! I WANT an investogote into posable VOTER FROUD here at da site and i NEEDS MY INFOM. |
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| Jan-25-17 | | Abdel Irada: ∞
<offramp: <Golden Executive: Part 3/3 <puns> As an addendum to the list above, quite a few people unofficially voted for Best/Worst Pun in 2005; Yanofsky vs J Therien, 1947 ("I concede clearly now; Therien is gone.") had the most supporters, but was not officially declared a Caissar winner.>How often are you going to tell us this?> Between your post and mine, that makes twice he won't need to. ;-) ∞ |
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| Jan-25-17 | | Abdel Irada: ∞
<posoo: WHERE IS da vote totals for da FIRST week of awurds, da only time posoo HAD A CHANCE?!I WANT an investogote into posable VOTER FROUD here at da site and i NEEDS MY INFOM.> That's it. From now on, we need to start requiring voter ID from all Caissars participants. I mean, this is ridiculous. Fifty-three people voted, and of those, we have so far been able to confirm that zero of them are alive. That's a potential fraud rate of at least 100% (not forgetting that at least 50 of our most active posters in recent years have been <tolengoy>). . Twitter Summary: <Widespread voter fraud. Not good!> ∞ |
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Jan-25-17
| | WannaBe: <Abdel Irada: ... Twitter Summary: <Widespread voter fraud. Not good!>> Gnus at 11:10PM, right after the latest reports on Kardashian family turmoil. |
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| Jan-27-17 | | posoo: CLEARLY there is a cuvrup of som kind |
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| Dec-29-17 | | gauer: Not sure if Wei Yi vs L Bruzon Batista, 2015 ever caught a Caissar prize, but https://m.facebook.com/chessgamescom recently announced their best of 2017 of their latest posted there. Looks like it's time to review the 2017 candidates again, and see if AlphaZero or a recent Karjakin queen sacrifice might capture one of the next prizes. |
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