Here is the link for 80 pictures from SPNI round 6 and closing ceremony. Above is the 2009 SPNI Champion Yang Dai of Virginia.
SPNI Puzzle Solving Championship:
1. Epiphany Peters 10/10
2. Yang Dai 8/10
3. Dana Hannibal 8/10
4. Apurva Virkud 8/10
5. Angel Bohanon 8/10
6. Alisha Chawla 8/10
7. Emily Tallo 8/10
8. Michelle Chen 8/10
9. Katie Abderhalden 8/10
10. Indira Puri 8/10
SPNI Bughouse Championship:
1. Yang / Fiona 5/5
2. Victoria / Alexandra B. 4/5
3. Ananya / Michelle 4/5
4. Linda / Erica 4/5
SPNI Blitz Championship:
1. Epiphany Peters 5/5
2. Angel Bohanon 4/5
3. Yang Dai 4/5
4. Emily Tallo 4/5
5. Joanne Koong 4/5
Friends and Family:
1. Amando Lopez 4/4
2. Jifeng Chen 3/4
3. Nam Nguyen 3/4
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Congratulations Yang! You make Virginia proud!
News Flash!
Former Philippine President Corazon Aquino, whose “People Power” movement pushed out longtime strongman Ferdinand Marcos less than three years after her husband’s assassination, has died at age 76, her family announced Saturday.
“She was the agent of change in Philippine democracy,” said Ray Donato, the nation’s consul-general in Atlanta.
1 of 3 Aquino, the first woman to lead the Philippines, had been battling colon cancer since March 2008 and died of cardio-respiratory arrest at 3:18 a.m. Saturday (3:18 p.m. Friday ET), said Mai Mislang, a spokeswoman for her son, Philippine Sen. Benigno Aquino III.
Funeral arrangements were being set up, Mislang said. Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has also announced a 10-day mourning period for the former president, said Ray Donato, the country’s consul-general in Atlanta.
“She was the agent of change in Philippine democracy, and almost all the Filipinos I know revered her during her presidency,” Donato said.
Aquino had been born into a wealthy family and was educated in the United States. She had not been involved in politics before her husband, opposition leader Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr., was gunned down at Manila’s airport in August 1983 as he returned from exile.
The political novice took over the leadership of her husband’s movement after his death and challenged Marcos in a 1986 election, making a yellow dress her trademark and bolstered by the support of the country’s Roman Catholic churches.