Hales Corners Challenge IX

Hola darlings! The HCC IX, April 25, 2009, has gone international with publicity on the Susan Polgar Chess Daily News and Information blog, popular world-wide! The HCC IX is worth 10 Grand Prix points in the national GP sponsored by World Chess Live, with cash and merchandise prizes totally $25,000 for the 2009 cycle! Goddesschess "adopted" the Southwest Chess Club last year, and sponsored some prizes in the Hales Corners Challenge VIII. We're pleased to be back this year for the HCC IX, with an emphasis on encouraging all you chess femmes out there to come and play in this fantastic regional event. To that end, we're sponsoring prizes just for you. I was informed earlier today that there are already 60 pre-registered players - including 9 chess femmes! Way to go! (HCC VIII had 65 players total, including pre-registered and day-of registrations). Goddesschess particularly hopes that chess femmes will come out for this event! Can we get a couple more of you to come out and play in the Open Section??? (Psssst, the more chess femmes who come out this year will just encourage us to make our prize sponsorship larger for the HCC X). The Wyndham Milwaukee Airport Hotel (formerly known as the Four Points Sheraton), is a very nice hotel and has comfortable, first-class facilities for hosting the HCC IX. I've visited there many times for various events over the years and can say with confidence that the surroundings are very nicely decorated, clean, spacious, and the staff is gracious and top-notch. You'll be very comfortable playing at the Wyndham Milwaukee Airport Hotel. Who knows? Maybe I'll put in an appearance - I'll be that mysterious dark-haired woman of a certain age going crazy taking photos with her digital camera...