- Andrey Deviatkin, Axe Soup, Chess-News.ru, December 14, 2015
In Russian, there’s a saying “axe soup” that arises from someone allegedly having promised to make a good soup out of a simple axe, which the person did by putting an axe to boiling water, and then adding there all the ingredients necessary for a good soup. Both FIDE Grand Prix and the Grand Chess Tour (especially the second one) are luxuriously organized events, but in both the chess part is the very same axe. With its high level of organization and all the fuss created, I don’t think they would be less interesting if the central activity were a block championship in yard-cleaning or washing the dishes. [Read more].
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