We’re a year closer to death and what better way to celebrate than arbitrarily picking some categories and giving out a meaningless award? Happy new year or whatever.
Tournament of the Year
There were many chess tournaments this year, though I can’t pretend to care about the ones I wasn’t involved with.
Runners up:
The Chennai Olympiad
I expertly infiltrated the venue by pretending to be a “chess coach” and sometimes a “Chessable employee”. This was a cute little event with some decent players and 1 or 2 fans. If all Olympiads are like this I will probably go to another.
GingerGM’s Crypt Blitz
It was blitz. It was in a Crypt. There was Peter Svidler dressed as a meerkat. There may or may not have been copious amounts of alcohol. For legal reasons, I’m not allowed to say anything more about the event.
Chessable Sunway Sitges
This was my attempt to play some serious chess. That didn’t go exactly to plan but I did get to hang out in a beautiful place with some cool people, so I regard it as a win.
The winner:
The Prestigious MrDodgy Invitational 3.0
Call me biased, I don’t care. The World Champion of Chess played in my stupid horse picture tournament. It’ll be near impossible to beat this next year (but I WILL).
Next up - Twitter Account of the Year!