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 July 2011! (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 nominated up to 4 nominated 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 win again.

     The past winners are:

veggiegirlie, haddad56, deckers1066, Alan_Tudor, LisaV, heinzie, goldendog, ilikeflags, OmarCayenne, blackfirestorm666, batgirl, bigpoison, Kacparov, echecs06, TheGrobe

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

      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 2 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. 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 removed from 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 July so get ready to nominate! Any questions?

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/community/second-chess-player-of-the-month-july-2011

You said we can't advertise players; no rules about advertising player of the month competitions.

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List:

oinquarki

electricpawn

Reb

ivandh

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Filling tonydal's shoes? What do you mean? Keeping him busy?

I don't wear shoes.

I nominate artfizz, whom I know to be one of the most site knowledgeable and helpful persons  on the Forums..as many discriminating members will recognise. 

good point.

Oh, fun! My nominations go to:

Natalia Pogonina: For dealing quite well with the deluge of threads and comments which came quite suddenly, and for always being a good read.

Estragon: Informative and funny

DannyHume: Very funny

Joseph S: Very funny

Oh no!  Now I feel under pressure to be funny.   

I nominate valentin and LaskerFan for their immense contributions to Vote Chess.

I nominate Vyomo and Krone for their lollifying hatred of waffles.

I second it!

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/community/second-chess-player-of-the-month-july-2011

I nominate,

GM MagnusCarlsen --> so I can see him lose once

-edit-

I'd also like to nominate d4e4's grandfather.  For beeing  a fun and creative alterego for d4e4, without making multiple users 

funny

List:

oinquarki

electricpawn

Reb

ivandh

pdela

trysts

akintews

WellRead

d4e4

MsJean

Vyomo

Krone

Joseph-S

DannyHume

Estragon

Natalia_Pogonina

artfizz

Who nominated me?

  Yeah, a page and a half is a lot to look through!