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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink, and an elephant may bathe.

Unknown proverb, variously attributed

Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

Siegbert Tarrasch

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Fall is a weird time in Second Life (so is winter, but I digress).  By the nature of the virtual world, nothing changes unless someone changes it for the world; and so we have red maples and ground bushes starting to go into their “autumn cycle” while the ground is still covered with daisies, lavender and other flowers.  Witness this Hyde Park location near Speakers Corner, in one of the several London recreations in world.