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<p>The live event site Chess24 mentions May Day: <a href="https://chess24.com/en/read/news/chess-may-day">MayDay</a>. Relevance is that both April 1 and May 1 are rare world-recognized holidays. <p> Unconnected with Chess24, Chess Base has annual spoof for April 1, and it was predicted here well beforehand that their title and topic would start with the letter<p> <b>S</b>, and they did in <b>'S'</b>uper-Car, <a href="https://en.chessbase.com/post/a-bmw-i8-super-car-for-sergey-karjakin">Sergei_Wins</a>; and in<p> 'S' of <a href="https://en.chessbase.com/post/cbm-170-a-symphony-on-board-and-unheard-melodies">Symphony</a>; and in '<b>S</b>'tudies by Benko for the occasion: <a href="https://en.chessbase.com/post/april-fool-it-was-the-trump-problem">Studies</a>, well they left out the word studies in headline of that part.<p> Then Oil Rig ChessBase followed up with another typically cheap treatment of Capital-S, <a href="https://en.chessbase.com/post/shogi-the-japanese-form-of-chess">Shogi</a>, acting as if they know something about Shogi and not mentioning a single heterodox piece. Their CV repertoire consists of Xiangqi and Shogi in name only, so once in a while trying to seem cosmopolitan and not provincial; but it is heresy to even look at the different boards or pieces. For example, what is ramification of staying square in Shogi 9x9, actually the third most popular CV size? They have no idea, no opinion how to configure let's say Western Pawns on 9-square.</p>