Top Chesstalk Posters of the Year

[Aris Marghetis]

Re: Top Chesstalk Posters of the Year

Erik lists Kevin Pacey as an FM in his original post. Of course I am not serious, by checking his FIDE page one can quickly see there is no title listed. I was just pointing out an error.

I'm good :)

[Erik Malmsten]

Re: Top Chesstalk Posters of the Year

Congratulations to Gary Ruben for posting the most often as he does every year! But number 2 Egidijus Zeromskis almost passed him. The next 6 have increased their contribution. There has been an exciting group of newcomers racing up the list: Aman Hambleton, Vlad Dobrich, Louis Morin, Michael Yip, Jordon Benson, Hal Bond, Paul Bonham and Top Newcomer Jack Maguire.

TOP POSTERS 2012/2011
1/1 Gary Ruben 749/500+Mar
2/3 Egidijus Zeromskis 737/470
3/5 IM Jean Hébert 653/436
4/4 Hugh Brodie 541/438
5/7 Bob Armstrong 505/425
6/13 Zeljko Kitsch 445/254
7/14 Felix Dumont 410/246
8/9 Kerry Liles 378/336
9/2 Vlad Drkulec 334/500+Apr
10/10 IA Larry Bevand 307/312
11/19 Kevin Pacey 303/199
12/-- FM Aman Hambleton 277/29
13/20 Christopher Mallon 276/196
14/-- Vlad Dobrich 271/179
15/-- Louis Morin 271/40
16/15 IA Aris Marghetis 258/223
17/-- Michael Yip 234/87
18/6 Bob Gillanders 227/426
19/-- Jack Maguire 227/0
20/-- Jordan S. Benson 213/14
21/12 Roger Patterson 200/258
22/-- Hal Bond 193/135
23/16 FM Hans Jung 180/210
24/-- Paul Bonham 166/123
25/11 Paul Beckwith 157/305

There has been 602 posters on chesstalk with an average of 101 posts, skewed by the heavy users while 360, over half, have posted less than 10 times. Historically, there has been 113 posters with over 100 postings, last year 38 with 100, 20 with 50. This year slightly higher 43 with 100, 32 with 50. The top 7 maintain their placement as the biggest chesstalkers, while the next group passes the 1,000 postings mark. Maybe they should get a certificate.

TOP ALL-TIME POSTERS 2012/2011 with total at the end of 2012
1/1 Gary Ruben 3,269
2/2 Egidijus Zeromskis 2,574
3/3 Hugh Brodie 2,227
4/4 Bob Armstrong 2,157
5/5 IM Jean Hébert 1,926
6/6 Kerry Liles 1,431
7/7 Vlad Drkulec 1,315
8/11 Felix Dumont 1,251
9/8 IA Larry Bevand 1,237
10/12 IA Aris Marghetis 1,081
11/10 Bob Gillanders 1,071
12/-- Zeljko Kitich 1,064
13/14 FA Christopher Mallon 1,019
14/9 FM/IA Jonathan Berry 999
15/-- Vlad Dobrich 923
16/-- FM Hans Jung 869
17/-- Kevin Pacey 858
18/13 Carl Bilodeau 814
19/-- Paul Beckwith 824
20/-- Roger Patterson 778


There are more new active talkers on Parlons Echecs.

TOP NEW & MORE ACTIVE PARTICIPANTS (% of posts in 2012)
1. Jack Maguire 227 100%
2. Andy Shaw 127 100%
3. Mathieu Cloutier 82 100%
4. F. Deschamps 76 100%
5. Gilles G. Jobin 44 100%
6. Georges Blais 41 100%
7. Normand Arsenault 146 98%
8. Claude Carrier 83 98%
9. Ralph Deline 44 94%
10. Wayne Kormer 53 91%
11. Claude Lalumière 130 89%
12. FM Aman Hambleton 277 86%
13. Denis Landry 43 86%
14. IM Kenneth Regan 56 66%
15. Michael Yip 234 60%
16. Corinna Wan 53 54%
17. Louis Morin 271 53%


TOP THREAD CREATORS 2012/2011
1/1 Hugh Brodie 148/127
2/2 Sylvain Millette 117/102
3/3 IA Larry Bevand 87/83
4/5 Vlad Dobrich 84/70
5/9 Felix Dumont 74/39
6/-- Michael Yip 72/22
7/6 Bob Armstrong 68/49
8/12 Egidijus Zeromskis 60/33
9/-- Louis Morin 41/9
10/4 IA Aris Marghetis 40/70
11 Andrei Botez 29/17
12/8 J. Ken MacDonald 28/43
13/-- F. Deschamps 26/0
14/10 IA Vlad Rekhson 23/37

TOP ALL-TIME THREAD MAKERS 2012/2011
1/1 Hugh Brodie 500+
2/2 Sylvain Millette 415
3/3 IA Larry Bevand 364
4/5 Vlad Dobrich 340
5/4 IA Aris Marghetis 308
6/9 Bob Armstrong 199
7/8 Egidijus Zeromskis 193
8/7 J. Ken MacDonald 168
9/6 Tony Ficzere 151
10/14 Felix Dumont 149
11/11 IA Hal Bond 120
12/-- Michael Yip 105
13/13 Erwin Casareno 96
14/15 FM Hans Jung 94
15/-- IA Vlad Rekhson 91
16/16 Roger Patterson 90

Contact Larry Bevand to collect your prizes.

[Tyler Longo]

Re: Top Chesstalk Posters of the Year

There should be an award for highest quality to post ratio.

[Felix Dumont]

Re : Re: Top Chesstalk Posters of the Year

There should be an award for highest quality to post ratio.

Agreed. Or at least the top posters of chess-related content.

[Brad Thomson]

Re: Top Chesstalk Posters of the Year

It might be interesting to devise a list of the best and worst posters on the forum. When this is done for rock bands, it is almost always the case that the same band, The Rolling Stones, wins both categories. Is there any poster herein that might vie for this distinction? :)

[Aris Marghetis]

Re: Top Chesstalk Posters of the Year

It might be interesting to devise a list of the best and worst posters on the forum. When this is done for rock bands, it is almost always the case that the same band, The Rolling Stones, wins both categories. Is there any poster herein that might vie for this distinction? :)

LOL Brad, that was a good one! Somewhat true tho : there's Stones songs I love, and ...

[Larry Bevand]

Re: Top Chesstalk Posters of the Year

[QUOTE=Contact Larry Bevand to collect your prizes.[/QUOTE]

I think the best new contributor to this board in 2012 was Jack Maguire of Toronto!

Prize...well...when Eric makes a purchase from CMA...we will gladly contribute the profits from that purchase to Jack :)

Larry

[Erik Malmsten]

Re: Top Chesstalk Posters of the Year

I think the best new contributor to this board in 2012 was Jack Maguire of Toronto!

Prize...well...when Eric makes a purchase from CMA...we will gladly contribute the profits from that purchase to Jack :)

Larry

Is there a limit?

[Erik Malmsten]

Re: Top Chesstalk Posters of the Year

It would be too big of a project to compile average number of replies and views per post which would show who's creating action and being followed, rather than just announcements.

Looking at top threads by views show many people following national and local tournaments. There has been conflicts over the CFC/FQE agreement and the CYCC. But not all the best posts create action, such as ones by Nakamura or obituaires. A healthy variety of people have started these most viewed threads. Perhaps Jean Hébert and Andrei Botez have created the most active threads. Hans Jung has surely posted the most games.

(1. Chess for Peace by Larry Bevand [Aug 2011] 278,498 views with 3 replies.)

(2. Where will Kovalchuk end up?! [July 2010] by Ben Daswani had 268,242 views with 58 replies (Ben Daswani 24).)

(3. Blindfold Chess - the book by Hans Jung [Jan 2009] has 36,413 views with 496 "replies" (Hans Jung 395).)

(4. The One and Only Climate Change thread... by Paul Beckwith 41,934 views with 1,238 replies.)

(5. The New One and Only Climate Change Whatever by Gary Ruben [March 2011] has 34,981 views and 1,002 replies (Paul Beckwith 263, Gary Ruben 250, Vlad Drkulec 223, Zeljko Kitich 59 and Bob Gilllanders 54).)

(6. Welcome to the Depression by Gary Ruben [Sep 2008] 31,579 with 508 replies (Gary Ruben 214).)

1. Toronto International July 15-20, 2012 by Hal Bond 18,747 views with 125 replies (40 Aris Marghetis).

2. Canadian Zonal by Claude Lalumière 8,739 views with 89 replies.

3. Making Draws in Chess Very Rare by Paul Bonham 8,450 views with a very high 193 replies (Paul Bonham 51).

4. WYCC 2012 by Andrei Botez 8,399 views with 86 replies. [wYCC 2011 14,802 and 209]

5. Hart House Winter Open 2013 has 7,337+ views with 63+ replies. [2011 Holidays Open 3,894 and 22]

6. Contintental 2012 by Eric Hansen 6,847 views with 86 replies.

7. Jean Hebert v Sambuev (not the game) by Kerry Liles 6,841 views with high 123 replies.

8. Kitchener-Waterloo Chess Open by Ralph Deline 6,350 views with 65 replies (Tony Li 21).

9. CFC and the FQE have come to an agreement! by Larry Bevand 6,103 views with 98 replies.

10. FIDE level chess in Canada by Denton Cockburn 5,999 views with high 127 replies.

11. Congratulations to Haizhou Xu [defeating Hebert] by Bindi Cheng 5,732 views with 60 replies.

12. 2012 Canadian Olympiad Dream team roaster by Andrei Botez 5,662 views with 73 replies.

13. Should unruly and disruptive juniors play in CFC rated, Cash Prize events? by John Brown 5,508 views with 92 replies.

14. 2012 Canadian Open in Victoria by Roger Patterson 5,196 views with 51 replies. [Canadian Open 2011 13,565 and 112]

15. Hart House Reading Week Open: Feb 18-20, 2012 by Geordie Derraugh 5,186 with 42 replies.

16. New attendance record for CYCC (non Ontario edition) by Andrei Botez 5,109 views with 78 replies.

17. Let the World Championship begin! by Nigel Hanrahan 5,040 views with 67 replies.

18. Hamilton Winter Open 2012 - March 17/18 by Garvin Nunes 5,025 replies with 40 replies.[2011 Hamilton Winter Open 14,796 and 127]

19. Panama Chess Open II by Aman Hambleton 4,981 views with 68 replies.

20. Canada - Next Federal Gov't by Bob Armstrong 4,694 views with high 106 replies (Gary Ruben 31).

21. Guelph Winter Pro-Am Feb 11-12 by Hal Bond 4,675 views with 42 replies.

22. Toronto Labour Day Open - Results, Pairings & Standings by Geordie Derraugh 4,551 views with 41 replies. [2011 Toronto Labour Day 18,513 and 232]

23. Canadian Open Victoria July 8-13 Registration rate goes up $20 after June 29 by Brian Raymer 4,504 views with 52 replies (Mark S. Dutton 22).

24. WCC 2012: Assessment by Gordon Ritchie 4,281 views with 86 replies.

25. Response to post by Mr. Plotkin by Mikhail Egorov 4,207 views with 57 replies (22 Mikhail Egorov).

26. The Women's Chess System - Finally Time to Abolish It? by Bob Armstrong 4,203 views with very high 153 replies (Bob Armstrong 25).

27. Toronto Labour Day at Hart House by Alex Ferreira 4,194 views with 28 replies.

28. Developing Chess in 3rd World Countries by Zachery Dukic 4,143 views with high 114 replies.

29. Conspicuous by their absence [Anand, Carlsen Olympiad] by Jack Maguire 4,133 views with 97 replies (Jack Maguire 32).

30. Best Chess Blog/Site by Gordon Ritchie 4,060 views with 28 replies.

31. Toronto bid for 2016 Chess Olympics by Jonathan Berry 4,058 views with 67 replies.

32. Best/Most Enjoyable Chess Book to Read? by J. Ken MacDonald 3,982 views with 55 replies.

33. 6th Annual Grand Pacific Open Victoria BC April 6-9 2012 by Brian Raymer 3,965 views with 34 replies.

34. Why did the CFC and FQE relationship fall apart? by Denton Cockburn 3,920 views with high 112 replies.

35. Istanbul Chess Olympiad 2012 by Andrei Botez 3,837 views with 56 replies. [2010 Canada at the Olympiad 10,457 and 146]


Parlons Echecs

1. Un accord entre la FCE et la FQE! par Larry Bevand 4,284 vues avec 88 réponses (Jean Hébert 28).

2. Merci Marc! [Poulin] par Larry Bevand 3,961 vues avec 33 réponses (Jean Hébert 14).

3. Hébert: encore et toujours! par Denis Gauthier 3,595 vues avec 55 réponses (Jean Hébert 26).

4. Sapozhnikov-Sambuev par Denis Gauthier 3,040 vues avec 38 réponses.

5. Championnat fermé du Canada par Claude Lalumière 2,759 vues avec 35 réponses.

6. Appuyons le président FQE - votons OUI par Carl Bilodeau 2,743 vues avec 52 réponses.

7. tournoi Printanier Ahuntsic par Dany Lapointe 2,697 vues avec 24 réponses.

8. Entente FQE-FCE: demande de référendum consultatif par Louis Mortin 2,401 vues avec 44 réponses.

9. Parties du Pere Noel par Daniel Pregent 2,177 vues avec 43 réponses.

10. Suivi de l'entente CFC-FQE par Jean Hébert 2,144 vues avec 41 réponses.

11. Bigger, Faster, Better! par Steve Bolduc 2,104 vues avec 79 réponses (32 Louis Morin).

12. Championnat Ouvert du McGill 2012 par He, Shao Hang 1,943 vues avec 31 réponses.

13. L'entente tel que vu par la CFC par Marc Poulin 1,889 vues avec 35 réponses.

14. Le club d'échecs de Chambly contre le projet d'entente FQE et FCE par Michel Barré 1,783 vues avec 38 réponses.

15. Une tendance inquiétante par François Chevalier 1,762 vues avec 26 réponses.

16. Lacunes au niveau de la gestion des affaires courantes de la FQE par Claude Lalumière 1,750 vues avec 40 reponses.

17. Premières retombées de l'entente... par Jean Hébert 1,737 vues avec 30 réponses.

18. Qui est le numéro 1 au Québec ? par F. Deschamps 1,692 vues avec 48 réponses.