Who am I? My name is Jason Bokar - I'm an engineer with Michelin company.  I have been playing chess since I was about 7 years old. I taught myself by reading a Hoyle's game book. It had the basic moves, and ideas. However, my father noticed I had a talent for it as soon as I started defeating my uncle regularly. He bought me another book, Capablanca's "Last Lectures". It covered everything from Endings to Openings (the order in which Capablanca believed the game should be studied!) Shortly after that I was introduced to Cliff Zeigler from Cleveland, Ohio. He served as an informal chess coach and introduced me to many of Northern Ohio's best players. Unfortunately, I stopped playing active chess when I went to college to study engineering. When I graduated, work duties interfered with active play. I started playing correspondence chess by entering a Golden Knights section. Hard to believe, but that just finished recently! Currently I am a Master Level player in ICCF. I keep an "active" game load and so it takes a good bit of my free time analyzing positions. I received my IM title at the October 2002 ICCF Congress, and my SIM title at the October 2003 ICCF Congress in Ostrave, Czech Republic! Also, I am the ICCF-NAPZ Deputy Director, and the ICCF-USA/NAPZ webmaster. This web page is intended to share a little of my enjoyment of chess with the chess community. Keep checking back for new and interesting articles!