Chess Player of the Month January 2012

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 2012!

     Do you know someone who needs to be mentioned? Well you've come to the right place. Join this month's Chess Player of the Month for January 2012! (aka CPOTM) The rules are that you can nominate anyone on chess.com for whatever reason. Whether it would be friendly, humor, or personality, they can be nominated. However, please try to keep is positive about your nominated person.

     Each person can nominate up to two members. You HAVE TO SAY why you want to nominate he/she or you will be ignored. If a member that you want to nominate has already been nominated, do not say: "I second the nomination!" or "I etc. the nomination." However, you can say another reason why you think that person should be nominated. I cannot be nominated. You cannot nominate yourself. Those who have won the other CPOTM contests cannot be nominated again again. Also, in order to be a candidate, the candidate must have logged on to chess.com no more than one month before the current month on the thread.

     The past winners are:

veggiegirlie, haddad56, deckers1066, Alan_Tudor, LisaV, heinzie, goldendog, ilikeflags,

AndyClifton, blackfirestorm666, batgirl, bigpoison, Kacparov, echecs06, TheGrobe, pdela,

oinquarki, corrijean, ozzie_c_cobblepot, trysts, kohai 

so they cannot be nominated again. It follows the same rules as the other Chess Player of the Month forum topics I have posted. 

     To make voting and nominating easier for me, please keep posts or parts of posts related to nominating and voting in red.

     As for the voting rules, we will be vote on the last week(s) of this month, depending if we have a lot of nominated members or not. You will have two votes and cannot vote for yourself. However, you can't use both your votes for the same person. Both votes do not need to be used. Once you cast your vote, it is final. No changing votes. Also, I want to make it clear that there is no advertising to vote for one member for it will not be fair for the member(s) not advertised. If you do advertise, you will be blocked until the end of this month AND next month, and the nominated player you have advertised will be removedfrom the list.

     I want to make it clear that I do understand that I cannot control one's actions from advertising, but at the same time, they should always take a look at the first post of this thread. From now on I will not be responsible for your actions, so beware. Spamming will be taken seriously so if you spam, you will be blocked until the end of the month.

     Finally, all of you have to know that this is for fun and it is just a game.The purpose is to meet new members, create new friends, and see the personalities of the people around chess.com. It might be a popularity contest, but in the past, I have seen members nominate new members to chess.com who they thought were amazing friends. Feel free to send me personal messages about any ongoing problems. The winner will receive a trophy for winning this month. 

     It is now January so get ready to nominate! Any questions?

IMPORTANT NOTICE! CHESS PLAYER OF THE MONTH WILL OFFICIALLY END JULY 2012! THESE LAST MONTHS ARE GOING TO BE THE LAST CHANCES TO WIN.

I have not decided yet, but some sort of chess.com membership prize MAY be eligible for the winner of July 2012, the month where past winners will compete. If you have any questions or comments about the prize of July 2012, do not post in this thread, but send me a message.

Only 6 winnders left? O Noes!!1

I nominitiate theoreticalboy as he is surely deserving of one of these last coveted titles!

can't read the bloody past winners proknight

Does it stop in 2012 to synchronise with the end of the world?

  I think it is not as u guess!!l rather have a wonderful happy New Year.

ProKnight is building an Ark, the reason why stopping in July. He got six months (to Dec.) to build the bloody thing.  

 Questions: see if can nominate me in some way! next I will go for U !! mutual deal with no loss for either party!!

List:

theoreticalboy

Raf, that would be cheating.  You get nominated here if the adoring masses decide to elevate you to the near-demigod status of People's Lord Protector.

I nominate ivandh and akintews, on the basis that if I deserve one, it's a veritable scandal that these guys haven't won.

I nominate Here_is_Plenty as a worthy candidate for Lord Protector.

I nominate kco because of his word jumble puzzles and pam234 because she's nice.

She may be nice, corrijean, but would she make a good Lady Protectress?

Yes, she would.

I 2nd kco because he's always flipping over a stone to see what's under it.

 hmm that might be a problem.....

derp.

my second vote is for pam234. as mentioned because she's sweet. Not enough sweet chess players in this world.

Vote?  Woah, dude, you're getting waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay ahead of yourself there.