Since I'm gradually winding down by blogging activity, I don't know if I'll post [about the CJA] so many times this year, but I'll certainly do what I can.
Both out of curiosity and force of habit, I tried to look at the list of 2023 CJA (Chess Journalists of America) entries after it became available. The following image is a screen capture of the page I found.
2023 CJA Award Entries
(chessjournalism.org)
To see the entries for a particular award, click on a category, then click on the award. All entries for the award are then displayed. The image shows the four awards under the category 'Book Awards', i.e. 'Best Book of The Year' (sic), which has four awards: 'Overall', 'Other', 'Instructional', and 'Self Published'. The 'Overall' award lists 14 entries, each with a link to a separate page.
To collect all of the entries across all of the categories would require clicking on each award, then performing a copy/paste on the entries for that award. You might expect there would be an option to download the list of all entries in all awards, but no such luck.
The data behind the page is embedded on the page's HTML, so it should be possible to extract the entries using straightforward text tools. That would require more work than I have time for right now. I might come back to it later, but I wouldn't bet any money on that happening soon. The winners will be announced next month.
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