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April spoof at Chessbase in a few hours, anyone thinking of outdoing them please feel free putting it here. See past examples in this thread from a match on an oil rig to Martian chess. Make up an archaeological find of Neanderthal game artifacts or something. Chessbase April Fool to follow here for sure once they swink everybody again.
That covers about half of them since the millennium. In larger topics, at all of Chess Café/Base/Games they don't care any more that every available Chess program trounces Carlsen, and indulge Carlsen bragging he does not read books etc. Peculiarly they dished out three CVs in one year only, 2014, namely Tandem Pawn, Option Chess, and Switch Side Chain. They then saw the myriad possibilities as too much for conforming academic intellects. The history of Chess is even taboo, but do not put it past them to make it an April 1st hoax. Hey that's it, let's anticipate what the Joke will be for this Friday the 1st! Tomorrow it will be announced what the latest yearly Scandal will be by sheer educated divination. After all, it is easy to fathom cheap minds, where for instance, inclusive of the OrthoChess lot, Seirawan does not know Rook-Knight and Bishop-Knight precede Capablanca, or Kasparov such ecologically ignorant apologist for rampant capitalism.
So not just matter of waiting til Friday the 1st how the sordid tradition again plays out.... Based on past performance of their own narrowmindedness, in advance what will the funny Chess Comeback Kids (reflexively of Anand's name) print actually this time of Fools hogwash?
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ChessBase must be reading Chess Variant Page because instead of a "swink" it's a "swindle." April_1. After 12 or 15 years this is their first departure from fake news on Fools Day. (Actually, not having looked in detail yet, expect one of the puzzles to be rogue or insoluble.) Swink means to swindle in the midwest but it's not here: Swindle? Also appropriate is Liars_Chess.
Wait a minute, isn't this one fishy? F.I.D.E. Arguably also the three top world holidays recognized in the most countries are April 1, May 1, and January 1(near the solstice), since other religious holidays are regional.