Crime and Punishment
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Chess With Porfiry
What looks like a friendly chat is a disguised interrogation between two grandmasters. Porfiry opens with gambits, plays to vanity, and ends with a trap Raskolnikov barely escapes.
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Crime and Punishment
What looks like a friendly chat is a disguised interrogation between two grandmasters. Porfiry opens with gambits, plays to vanity, and ends with a trap Raskolnikov barely escapes.
Crime and Punishment
On the dream of the horse. A child's empathy inverts into the mob's amorality, and the inner voice is silenced. The silence is only temporary, and when it returns, there will be a price.