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Posted By: Julie Vognar

and it was fun while it lasted. Got to write to a german guy in german, got on Pay Pal to pay him, and had a running race with a guy named "tomguy" who's getting a huge pile of chess cards for his dad. Also got a bidding service to bid on chess card auctions that closed at 4 a.m. They weren't very expensive, except for one 19th century photo of a minor player who wrote a lot about chess.

I guess my favorite is a double postcard, white, with a lot of gold embossing, which was sent out from Reykyavic (TERRIBLE spelling!) Iceland as an invitation to the big world championship match between American Bobby Fisher and Russian Boris Spassky in 1972. Fisher won--and then never played another public game! Can you imagine Barry Bonds retiring after the 2002 season? (I suppose it's possible if he doesn't want to catch his godfather, and (maybe) be in another World Series)...

Anyway, I suddenly lost interest in getting any more, and I'm wondering if I should get an album to keep them in...