Dear Leland, I just noticed that in the Charlotte website my affiliation is Clemson University instead of the University of South Carolina!! :-) Hurry, please correct it before the President of my University sees it!!! Again, thanks for organizing the event. I know there will always be problems and people need to realize that, but it is great to have these tournaments to increase chess interest in our states. Thanks too to David Causey. We also had a nice game ... where I let you overextend yourself, though you had some tactical threats that I could have easily fallen prey ... but of course I did not. Thanks for the nice game. Cheers, Edsel PS You should have seen my game against Chris Mabe where I had concocted a beautiful combination, only to mess up the sequence in which I made my moves because of over- excitement!  ************************************************************ Edsel A. Pena Professor Department of Statistics University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208