GG Ilieva

Viktoriya Ilieva studies mathematics in Sofia and was a national junior until the olympiad calendar collided with the chess one and the proofs won; both sets of trophies are on one shelf, unranked. She thinks she has no blind spots. Her old coach made her list them at fifteen, she worked through every item over two years, and she has carried the conclusion into a completely different game without ever repeating the exercise. There are three. Her division could name them. She calculates several moves ahead, turns the cube with cold accuracy, and works a position cleanly between problem sheets, which is why the three survive.