I wonder why World Champion Alex Moiseyev came to my house on December 18, 2004?

Hmmmm... I wonder.

And what tournaments have you played in?

By the way, I won a NACA tournament in 1997 (an Open invitation held in Nyak, NY), 28 points out of 32, with no losses. It was 11-man ballot.

Did you forget about that one tournament result?

I don't know if all checkers tournaments are like this one, but there were 3 people there under 60 in my section (myself and two others) and it was not played in the best of locations. The cafeteria featured creaky wooden chairs that were very uncomfortable and not well balanced. There was some Bridge event going on not far from us, which allowed smoking, so the place stunk like old cigars (though the cigarette smokers outnumbered them probably 10 to 1, the cigar smoke was what I remembered most.)

The mens room was crowded at times, and in the summer the pungent odor of urine wafted you when you were still 50 feet away. It was enough to make you wish for a third kidney.

There were only about 40 players in the so-called Masters Section, with a surprising 60 or more in what was labeled the "Mixed Amateur" section. There were only 2 ladies present in the whole event.

NACA ran events from 1996-1999 and was relatively short lived, based somewhere in Canada. They claimed to have 3000 members, but offered no publication (just a BBS online) and only organized 11-man ballot checkers, bridge, and some other non-poker card game that I cannot remember.