In world first, Russian chess player poisons rival’s board with mercury

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In world first, Russian chess player poisons rival’s board with mercury
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The only murder in Antarctica was a Russian killing somrone with an ice ax over a game of chess.

Hmmm lets examine this statement.

Isolated weird place, scary Russians, Russian stereotypes of intellectual game + tremendous violence.

Gee, it almost sounds like this is a too convenient racist lie. Any proof? The oldest reference just says 'it totally happened' and cites something I can't access on Google books. It's 20 years after the fact and not a primary source.