Bets are placed. There are no more bets. You put everything you had on the line. You will have to pay for losing, just like for winning. This is not a game without victims, and the figures in it are people. Everyone here plays for himself, except for the knight, which here, as usual, has no suit. And how can she be like you in a gray field, where white is not white enough, and black is too black. The Northeast of the United States is one of the most densely populated areas of the country. Nordham is a typical metropolis of the industrial North with a population of many millions. Social problems here are aggravated to the limit: crime, corruption, unemployment, stratification, lack of housing, the authorities’ disregard for people from disadvantaged areas. As it turns out, having money and position in society also do not guarantee personal happiness. Money does not bring love, power does not bring long-awaited peace, and inner demons turn out to be quite real. Contains obscene language.