[kenberg]

At the risk of stating the obvious, I want to say that the vugraph shows just keep getting better and better. I have been watching the recent European games some and the North American games a lot. I have seen two long and hotly contested matches decided on the final board, watched 5Hxx made for a push, watched absolutely brilliant play as well as plays that appear (it would be silly, at a minimum, for me to go beyond "appear") to be expert slip-ups, seen expert commentary from folks of different views and so on.

Just a few years back it was almost unimaginable that we could have such a thoroughly exciting, enjoyable and instructive experience, but apparently Fred and his crew imagined it. To say I appreciate what has been done is to engage in extreme understatement.

Thanks and thanks again to everyone (to list individuals would be to inadvertantly overlook someone) involved,

Ken