chess annotating/explaining software

[hdjur]

Hello,

this is my first post here. What recently attracted my attention is a series of texts dealing with the theory of chess annotating/explaining software.
Some of them are rather old. I know that there are already multiple implementations of chess annotator programs incorporated in GUI host programs like Arena, SCID vs PC, Fritz, and others, but there is still a lot of space for improvement in this area. I also noticed the existence of Herschberg Best-annotation Award, an annual contest described here:

https://pure.uvt.nl/portal/files/1239682/BEST____.PDF

Now, I have some questions.
Does anyone know the results of this competition throughout the years of its existence, is it still alive, and did any of you guys who participate at this forum, participate at that (or similar) competition too, or know someone who did?
Is there somewhere an open source project focused solely to development of state of the art chess annotation software (operating somewhat in stealth mode, since I cannot find any by simply googling)?
What I find odd about the rules for that competition (which are very old, in fact I don't know did they change in later years) is that the input and output are not simply defined as PGN's.

[Dann Corbit]

Practically every chess GUI has engine guided annotation features now.
The free open source Scid project is one example, and the free Arena arena project is another example.

Definitely all the commercial GUIs have this.

There was an especially interesting version of annotation with one of the Chessmaster versions that would say things like:
"Bb2 is the best move here, as fianchetto of the bishop helps to control the center."

There are dozens of projects especially written simply for annotation, and there are several on Github for sure. Surprised you can't find any. I should think that a web search would have turned up projects like:
https://github.com/jinghao/Chess-Commentator
and goo like this:
https://github.com/search?o=desc&q=ches ... =%E2%9C%93

[Guenther]

Practically every chess GUI has engine guided annotation features now.
The free open source Scid project is one example, and the free Arena arena project is another example.

Definitely all the commercial GUIs have this.

There was an especially interesting version of annotation with one of the Chessmaster versions that would say things like:
"Bb2 is the best move here, as fianchetto of the bishop helps to control the center."

There are dozens of projects especially written simply for annotation, and there are several on Github for sure. Surprised you can't find any. I should think that a web search would have turned up projects like:
https://github.com/jinghao/Chess-Commentator
and goo like this:
https://github.com/search?o=desc&q=ches ... =%E2%9C%93

The best and newest ones are surely Ferdinands tools exposed in this forum. (Chess Artist and Game Analyser)

[hdjur]

Thank you guys for the pointers.

[JVMerlino]

There was an especially interesting version of annotation with one of the Chessmaster versions that would say things like:
"Bb2 is the best move here, as fianchetto of the bishop helps to control the center."

This inspired me to look over some old Chessmaster 9000 code that I....uh....just....uh....happen to have....uh....lying around. Via a VERY rough count, just for the game and opening book annotations we had well over 10,000 different text strings, all with corresponding audio.

Not bad for 2002.

[gbtami]

https://github.com/fsmosca/chess-artist