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“Don’t worry,” said Ostap, “my project guarantees unprecedented growth of your city’s productive forces. Think about what will happen when the tournament ends and all the guests leave. The residents of Moscow, burdened by the housing crisis, will flock to your magnificent city. The capital will automatically move to Vasyuki. The government will move here. Vasyuki will be renamed New Moscow, and Moscow will be renamed Old Vasyuki. The people of Leningrad and Kharkiv will gnash their teeth, but they can’t do anything about it. New Moscow will become the most elegant center of Europe, and soon, of the whole world.” “The whole world!” the stunned residents of Vasyuki groaned. “Yes! And later, the entire universe. The chess idea that transformed a provincial town into the capital of the Earth will turn into applied science and invent ways of interplanetary communication. Signals will be sent from Vasyuki to Mars, Jupiter, and Neptune. Communication with Venus will become as easy as moving from Rybinsk to Yaroslavl. And who knows, maybe in eight years, the first interplanetary chess tournament in the history of the universe will take place in Vasyuki!”