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Chess is my excape from work.  I have a pretty stressful job.  I work for the city of Santa Barbara and have to deal with people complaining about there neighbors and the trash situation day in and day out.  The public often confuses me with the trash hauler and I receive even more complaints cenerning what they did or didn't do.  I know that they are not mad at me but often it is difficult when these people are yelling at you, and I do mean yelling at you and everything else that goes with that, to not feel as though it is your fault.  I don't want these people to be mad so I do everything I can to rectify there problem.  I go out and I pick up trash and various other things that I will not include in an email just so that these people will be happy and feel as though someone cares.  For those rare down times I turn to chess.  It is peaceful, quite, and I love the interaction with fellow chess players around the world.  It helps calm me and bring my blood pressure back to normal.  It is also a lot cheaper than therapy.  That is what chess is to me, therapy.  Thank you chesshere.com for being an outlet for my stress.  Premium membership or not I love your site and I can't wait till my 24 hours are up so I can check in for another session.  Thanks for being there for me.