AND NOW the first post nice useful and guaranteed certified off off topics ! it may concern chess :
“Of Chess it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not Chess.” ~William Ewart Napier
(thus totally irrelevant on "off topics!!!"QED).
a gift for Tom, I'm sure he reads us :
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French Post-Impressionist artist who was not well appreciated until after his death. Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of color and synthetist style that were distinguishably different from Impressionism. His work was influential to the French avant-garde and many modern artists, such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. He was an important figure in the Symbolist movement as a painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer. His bold experimentation with color led directly to the Synthetist style of modern art, while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his paintings, under the influence of the cloisonnist style, paved the way to Primitivism and the return to the pastoral. He was also an influential proponent of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms.