I just recieved an e-mail from Mac Banks who just got back from Las Vegas offering to lend us his expertise in setting up a Ladder. For those of you who know checkers it would be like Bill Gates offering help in setting up a company. He left me his phone number to call. The purpose would be to provide a challenge for our elite checker players (or those who aspire to be) to gain recognition other than with the BKR. It would be open to established players Brainknight and up. Unless the whole idea has too many flaws and needs to be aborted early my plan is to finalize the entire package and then present it to Fencer for a thumbs up or thumbs down. Is there any interest in this? Ed also has fairly extensive knowledge of Ladder play so his insights would be welcome.