I am an administrative law judge, which is basically a lawyer who presides over hearings in one or more specialized areas of law with testimony taken under oath, cross-examination, etc., and who writes binding, legal decisions based on factual and legal analysis. It's far easier than playing chess.

I've played chess since I was a kid. My father taught me. He would beat me every time, but I just enjoyed playing. Eventually, he could not beat me and would no longer play. I played second board behind a soon to be Master for my high-school team. The Chess Master and I would drive to tournaments on occasion, and we had some great times. We are still close friends. We went to the Chess World Championship in New York City in 2016. He lives peacefully along a large river, and I visit him in the warmer months.

My son is a software engineer. He worked for Microsoft but left to work for a start-up. He's in my profile pic. He got married in late 2023 to his longtime girlfriend, who my wife and I love. My son started playing chess on chess.com in about December of 2020, finally, to my joy, as a beginner inspired by the Queens Gambit miniseries. My wife is my best friend, who I met after being a widower. We love our modest, cedar wood home nestled in a forest with a stream where you cannot see or be seen by another soul. We live seemingly in the middle of nowhere but close to everything thirty minutes from a major city in the northeastern United States.

Chuck4321