We peaked at about 20 members. Nowadays, a lot of people play online. But there's always people dropping in to play each week. And we get a lot of children come in during the summer. Our members instruct them on how to play.

Each player is rated on points and most ratings are based on games that last two or three hours. The average chess player is rated between 1400 and 1500; a master player is rated well over 2200. If your rate is going up, you're playing better chess.

Jay Griffin taught a chess class and he decided to form the club. We met at Mother of Sorrows church for several years before moving to the First Presbyterian Church on Laird Road.

The Defense Department is very adept at mobilizing and moving large numbers of people and great quantities of equipment and materials very quickly. In the event of one of these catastrophes, those kinds of skills are going to be very important.

My client was the Good Samaritan in the matter, trying to get people their wages.

We're going to go down there and play those people that we haven't been able to figure out yet starting Tuesday.