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Lance Sweets the show. Besides his academic intellect and skill as a profiler, Sweets has various interests outside of psychology. A skilled chess player, he was also one of the youngest chessmasters in the federation which he was a member of during his college days. He is musically-inclined and plays the piano (as does actor John Francis Daley); in during the time frame between Seasons 5 and 6 he takes a sabbatical when Booth, Brennan, Angela, Hodgins and Daisy leave Washington DC for a year and becomes a freelance pianist. He is also well-read and familiar with William Shakespeare. In the season