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This is our 9th year, and our 5th year with a fan ballot. The winner of the Fan Ballot joins the ballots cast by the Canadian Chess Journalists to determine the overall winner of the award.
Some players and their accomplishments in 2011 for you to consider for your vote are here:
Re: Vote for 2011 Canadian Chess Player of the Year!
Before the Quebec Invitational, Nikolay Noritsyn had 6.5/9 (1/2 point GM Benjamin et al) in the Canadian Open. And after Quebec, he had 5/6 (=1st) in the Toronto Labour Day Open, and 5.5/6 (1st) in the Toronto Thanksgiving Open.
Seems like a decent year for him, and one that saw his rating rise from 2563 at the end of 2010 to 2654 now - hitting a career-high 2657 after rolling through Calugar, Cheng, and Sapozhnikov at Thanksgiving.
He also coached the WYCC team in Caldas Novas (if you're considering non-playing contributions by a player, too).
Before the Quebec Invitational, Nikolay Noritsyn had 6.5/9 (1/2 point GM Benjamin et al) in the Canadian Open. And after Quebec, he had 5/6 (=1st) in the Toronto Labour Day Open, and 5.5/6 (1st) in the Toronto Thanksgiving Open.
Seems like a decent year for him, and one that saw his rating rise from 2563 at the end of 2010 to 2654 now - hitting a career-high 2657 after rolling through Calugar, Cheng, and Sapozhnikov at Thanksgiving.
He also coached the WYCC team in Caldas Novas (if you're considering non-playing contributions by a player, too).
Quite a rise this year for Noritsyn, Cheng, and Sapozhikov. I remember a GM at the Canadian Open saying that our IMs were so strong.
Isn't there also an annual poll for chesstalker of the Year?
This is our 9th year, and our 5th year with a fan ballot. The winner of the Fan Ballot joins the ballots cast by the Canadian Chess Journalists to determine the overall winner of the award.
Some players and their accomplishments in 2011 for you to consider for your vote are here:
Another source of data to compare those who had a great year. I'm impressed by the three players who gained over 100 rating points and by Cheng and Noritsyn.
Top gainers in FIDE Ratings Sept 2010 to Nov 2011
Over 2300
55 Cheng, Bindi 2360 to 2415
52 Noritsyn, Nikolay 2414 το 2466
36 Sambuev, Bator 2486 to 2522
35 Hansen, Eric 2412 to 2447
27 Krnan, Tomas to 2390 2417
17 Spraggett, Kevin 2571 to 2588
15 Quan, Zhe to 2412 to 2427
07 Bluvshtein, Mark 2583 to 2590
06 Porper, Edward 2442 to 2448
06 Pechenkin, Vladimir 2314 to 2320
04 Charbonneau, Pascal 2513 to 2517
04 Gerzhoy, Leonid 2486 to 2490
02 Piasetski, Leon 2303 to 2305
2200s
121 Sapozhnikov, Roman 2226 το 2347
38 Wang, Richard 2218 to 2256
31 Martchenko, Alexander 2206 to 2237
24 Divljan, Igor 2268 to 2292
23 Masse, Hugues 2239 to 2262
17 Plotkin, Victor 2236 to 2253
17 Hambleton, Aman 2206 to 2223
15 Voloaca, Mihnea 2229 to 2244
14 Vaingorten, Yaaqov 2275 to 2289
14 Reeve, Jeff 2230 to 2244
13 Morrison, Kyle 2219 to 2232
13 Kulic, Sasa 2201 to 2214
12 Yee, Lorne 2210 to 2222
11 Leveille, Francois 2290 to 2301
05 Moore, Harry 2278 to 2283
02 MacKinnon, Keith 2200 to 2202
19 other 2200s lost rating points.
Provisional masters:
Trottier, Emile to 2239/9
Soliven, Joe 2232/10
Levkovsky, Alexandre 2205/12
2100s
110 Kleinman, Michael 2146 to 2256
83 Calugar, Arthur 2183 to 2266
53 Caire, Francois 2150 to 2203
44 Gusev, Nikita 2090 to 2134
43 Yam, Alex 2156 to 2199
42 Vincent, Trevor 2131 to 2173
39 Haynes, Nicolas 2150 to 2189
37 Dougherty, Michael 2171 to 2208
2000s (I only went down to 2100)
128 Humphreys, Michael 2033 to 2161
45 Yearwood, Roy 2055 to 2100
Others on the list
Cao, Jason unr to 1993
Peng, Jackie 1794 to 1922
Zhang, Yuanchen 1656 to 1794
Giblon, Melissa unr to 1572
Yesterday I went to you site and I wanted to vote...yes I know...I am technology challenged...anyway, it was not obvious to me how I could vote...so I served customers in our Toronto shop instead :) could you tell us how many people took part in fan ballot?
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