Here are pictures of a few people that you might run into if you played super high level chess in the United States.

 
   This is Joel Benjamin who is now a Grand Master. He was US Champion in 1997.  I actually played a game against Joel when he was about twelve years old.  He was dressed in old clothes that did not fit him and he looked penniless.  However, his clothes did not hurt him on the chess board.  He slaughtered me in very short order.