[greymule]

I had a feeling my post would generate a string of clever responses, and you outdid even my high expectations.

I have been playing correspondence chess for 25 years. I love it, even though it's slower than a high school baseball game. Snail mail games used to take several months, or even a couple of years, but now everyone except the old guys uses e-mail.

The U.S. Chess Federation's magazine Chess Life once featured Ron Guidry on its cover. Apparently he also loves the game. I met Guidry about 15 years ago and mentioned that cover, and he really perked up and enjoyed talking chess a bit. When I told him that I had also been a pitcher, and had it not been for a sore arm. . . . Well, I know he was doubly impressed.

jkumpire and canadaump6, I sent you e-mails through this site, so look for them.

Speaking of on-line games, I recently ran into the father of one the kids I had coached in Little League. The son had just been graduated from Duke (he was not on the lacrosse team). The father told me that his son had over the past year made more than a million dollars playing on-line poker. Is that possible? (If it is, on-line poker pays more than on-line chess.)