Chess Blogger Oscar Award & Acknowledgement

As many of you know, there are various awards for year end for various books and persons in chess, such as the British Chess Association Book of the Year Award, chessCafe's Chessbook of the Year Award, or even the Chess Oscar, done by vote of chess journilists.

In all seriousness, I hereby propose a Chess Blogger Oscar Award for 2007. My first vote is to Blue Devil Knight, with Temposchlucker as runner up. While I am at moments really tempted to make tempo's my first vote, nevertheless BDK realized such a significant improvement in his chess, made such a large effort as former secretary knight, and generated such formidable masses of quality posts--all while navigating myriads of comments at other blogs--that it is really very, very hard not to put him in the top spotlight this time, still with hearty appreciations to tempo's extensive efforts, great practical inteligence, and ample floods of smart narative there, too. Two great chess blogs. Then the third category: best new blog. I was going to make Houston Chess or now named as Glenn Wilson Chess the best new blog, but now see--in checking as suspected might have been the case--that his blog is much older. So lets acknowledge Glenn for surfacing fresh and strong and bold [0].



















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I do wish also to thank several persons: temposclucker for his unselfish help many times such as assisting me in getting started at FICS, directing me to Babachess for use there [3], and with chess publishing, to name but a few. BDK for encouraging me privately when I was really depressed, for his marvelous stewardship as Secretary Knight, and for BDK's and Mrs. BDK's help in assisting me in making a FAQ button. To Grandpatzer for being the best quiet blogger. To Robert Pearson or Wahrheit for always being kind, and cheerfull and fair and evenhanded. To chess relearner for his abiding friendship. To Samuraichess for having the best sort of human character and continued and renewed efforts as Secretary Knight.

To Mark Weeks for his efforts in oversight at about.com in promoting chessblogging and measuring activity among chessbloggers. To chessloser for his good cheer and infectious honesty about himself. To ReAssembler, Derek Slatter, for being so smart and constant and catholically broad, including--but well beyond--chess. To LiquidEgg for being so scintillatingly and brilliantly alive as well as truly inventive. To wormwood for being superior to everyone else--takes the pressure off me!

To likeForests, all the same things as Robert Pearson and chessLoser, but all the more: his decency, his chess craft, his singleminded devotion to chess truth, his being a solid family man. To Loomis for showing pure chess at its level best. To blunderprone for his mighty broad shoulders, supporting all the human hearts of the world on them alone. To David Glickman or Boyleston Chess Club for his ceaseless honest and fair chess blogging, and so elegantly presented while he does it, in a never ending cornucopia of community. To ivan or Getting to 2000 for his effort in now creating the real possibility of transparency of skill, evidenced by blogger profiles.
















Please forgive me if I forgot something or somebody, but these are persons who have all touched my life--in one way or another--materially and morally. Happy New Year to all of you, and may god bless you in the New Year, and may your chess vibrate with vital tactical energy or sit calmy in postional resolve with crystal clear solidity.

Please make a comment or two, and, in so doing, cast your vote and we can hopefully tally this up in a few weeks, as I gather your much appreciated responses and votes. Thank you.

Warmest, dk [4]

[0] de facto, in adding this qualifier: 'Chess Blogger Award for 2007', yes, it does mean that I:
a. to stick around and continue and,
b. next year really hope to be able to repeat the process if there are no objections.

[1] I don't know if this picture fits todays essay, but chess friend gambiitti of Finland at FICS has insisted that I show women with dark hair, and solemly promised to do so at my next post, no matter what, so here it is!

[2] addendum on New Years Day: new promises. I was sincerely concerned Polly (aka Castling Queenside) might experience my blog as sexist, so promise to rebalance things at my next post. I hope that I don't create a problem, since I cannot know what everyone likes, but will try. At least some men will like the photo, and those persons I cannot calculate entirely for either. :)

[3] I absolutely hate how physically unstable Babachess is and find it totally chagrinning, but am still enormously appreciative of temposchluckers right suggestion, at the right time, and thus giving me a fresh outlet outside ICC, since even the best place isn't really always the best at all times, when we--just--want to go wild in private (before I let others know my handle there).

[4] This is the last post for awhile with white women. I just did a big search on handsome men, Shamans, striking Afro-American men, lesbian women, and have too many new photos to work in! See what you did to me Polly?? Nevertheless, my coefficient of image on freaks and borderline persons will not be diminished.