Dear chessfriends

one of my hobbies (besides the game of chess) is collecting ballpoint pens
with various medical inscriptions (from farmacy companies, hospitals,
private doctors an so on). It would be nice to have some of the pens from
Your country to decorate my collection. In case You have an opportunity to
get any of such pens, I will be thankful if You could send them by mail - I
will cover the mailing expenses.

 

My address:
Antanas Janusonis
D.Gerbutaviciaus str.10-44
 LT - 04317, Vilnius
Lithuania

 

Antukas

My hobby is golf. i enjoy playing all of the beautiful scottish courses with a pack lunch and a cold drink, that is the life.

I love pool and pitch and Put. I think if there were a triathlon involving those two sports and chess I might actually be pretty good! Alas at any one on its own (bar pool maybe) I'll have to settle for a bit better than average!

My hobby is the ballroom dancing. I dance a lot.

Ray Duque III
New York City

My hobbies are woodworking, playing guitar, horseshoes, and of course playing chess.

My first hobby is Fishing,both inshore and offshore.Mind you Angling,is a hard game ,like Chess,a lot of tactics,Blunders and traps....

my hobby is bycicle.this summer i made about 2500km its really fun.
P.S. sveikas antukas (klaipeda)

I hunt and fish, and fairly infrequently now play golf.  Perhaps if I ever get airfare, or slow boat fare to Scotland I'll get to play St. Andrews with hotdog.  If you know,  is it set up much the same for the public as it is for major championships?

I do have a hobby life outside of chess (which I'm delighted to indulge in all 7 days of the week). I shoot indoor target air rifle, play a few musical instruments and have nearly finished making my first travel chess set - the case and board, not the pieces. I enjoy woodworking, but I'm not proficient enough for that yet! I used to practice a few martial arts, but I'll leave that to the youngsters now.

Woodpusher,

if you are ever in Scotland i will give you a game of golf but as for St Andrews old course i think you need to be a -1 or below handycap to play on it and im only a 16 so wont be aloud. But there are plenty other courses around St Andrews.

Hey.. nothing wrong with a 16 handicap. Thats pretty good. Ive played a bit of golf but fishing is more my thing although havent been out much of late. I like youtubing and chess!!!

Edit: If you use youtube then check out a user who goes by the handle jrobichess. He has the chess bug real bad and does vids etc..

I wasn't aware of the handicap limitation at the old course.  They always comment on American TV about its public status.  -1 in golf is about equal to IM in chess, so it really isn't that public!  Too bad, as I've never got close to a single digit handicap, never mind negative numbers.  At +16, if I practiced some we might have a good game.  When I played a lot, I got down to an +11 or +12, but now I only play once or twice a year, and lose a lot of shots to a rusty short game.   This year I haven't played at all but will bring clubs on my winter vacation.

Woodpusher, actually the the maximum handicap for the Old course is 24 for men and 36 for ladies. A current official handicap card or certificate must be shown to the starter before play. www.standrews.org.uk

Regards
Kirby Castle

i think woodpusher was just wanting to know if we would have a game haha. And i have been down to st andrews and have been told you need to be par or under to play the course. Im not sure about that site but i have been there and been told that. like i say woodpusher we could always play the other ones as long as im in scotland playing golf its all good. :-) plus Donald Trump is just away to build the worlds best course in my hometown Aberdeen. so we will have the best course in the world in a few years on my doorstep.

That's the official line, 24 for men and 36 for ladies, might be different for juniors (?). All golf is good, unless you are having a bad round!!