Every year, we offer a special “Miss Congeniality” award to the girl who is most friendly, outgoing, helpful or whatever criteria her fellow players decide. This year, there is a tie for 1st between Louiza Livschitz of California and Ettie Nikolova (top seed) of Virginia!
Congratulations to both!
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Both are wonderful girls! They’re also awesome players!
Computer chess moves on at a great pace.
Here’s another piece of evidence: HIARCS 9 is a useful piece of software, and an antique at the same time.
HIARCS 11.1 is 91 ELO points behind RYBKA 2.3.1 in the SSDF league table.