If you weren't a chess player, what would you be?

Well, I'd be focusing more on math. And improve my studies, because honestly, I'm still a student.

What about you guys?

i would be outside the bar asking someone for two bucks to get a drink.

There is something else??

Hmmmm, I suppose if I wasn't playing chess, I would be reading more. 

Some jerk on the internet.

Someone with a lot more free time.

It's something the other people do.

Bored with checkers, frustrated by the dice sometimes, in backgammon, and still too apprehensive to let myself try to enjoy poker to.

Since I'm not a chess player then I must be what I am now.

A writer, a bowler, a begining chess teacher, a grandpa, a father, a student, love physics, a retired man, hmm.. I better go change my public profile.

   I'd probably just waste my life playing Civ 5, Oblivion/Skyrim and Modern Warfare. Luckily I am involved in chess. Journalism more than playing. 

   -Mark

I would have been a Nuclear scientist, or a top-notch terrorist. On second thoughts, I think I would settle for breeding 7-legged spiders...

I'd be a magician; used to be my other hobby before I started playing chess again.

Since I'm still only young - It's too soon to tell - I would love a career in chess though and if not, my other passion is physics.

A wolf

But aren't you already a chess playing wolf?

Mouth of Sauron for me!

I've been trying to become "a chess player" for the past 30+ years, but without success...

chess is a hobby for me not more)

A symphonic horn player.  Only I'm not much better at horn than I am at chess!