Player of the Year award 2010-2011

by Dick Heathwood

CS Membership Secretary

As in previous years, the prestigious award, Player of the Year, will be selected by the membership of Chess Scotland and will be announced at the Scottish Championships in July. The Noticeboard thread will be used to record all of the players who are nominated for the award and members are invited to leave messages there giving their reasons why the player they have nominated should be chosen. As moderator, I shall delete (a) any negative comment about a player, and, (b) any misuse of the thread for purposes other than POY nominations and discussions.

Last year, we had 211 votes which was a really good response but the more votes cast, the more significant the award. Details of previous winners, criteria for selection etc can be found at; http://www.chessscotland.com/archiveresults/plyryear.htm

So, please use this forum to record your nominations. In a couple of weeks, I shall email all members inviting you to cast your vote for the award but let's get the discussion and nominations going now.

NOMINATIONS SO FAR

Alan Tate - Grandmaster norm at Rijeka, Croatia in November and an IM norm at the Cappelle Open ending in March.

Alex McFarlane - Invited by FIDE president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov to act as referee at the four Candidates final matches which take place in Kazan, Russia, May 3-27

Criteria

Player of Year winners