George Duke wrote on Tue, Mar 31, 2015 03:38 PM UTC:
Send in the Clowns. Within hours antinomian ChessBase will have its once
yearly sprinkle of ha-ha. You know, April 1. 1.April.2014 was Carlsen on
an oil rig:
http://en.chessbase.com/post/breaking-news-world-championship-2014-in-norway. How about suggestions for another April 1 in future, or May 1 May Day as one will, some sketchier than others?
1) President Ilyumzhinov plays a game of Hitchhiker's Guide chess with an alien intelligence. This idea is obligatory here, or over-determined, on account of the unwarranted criticism by new york times and other corporate presses. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation, http://www.openminds.tv/russian-exopolitics/3949.
(2) The return match at Reykyavik between Putin and Obama will run 24
games, not contemporary GM-woodpusher regular mere 12 games.
(3) Helsinki will hold annual Ethiopian Chess, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senterej, tournament dispensing with
the mobilization phase as too conventional.
(4) The annual Return to Shatranj will be held by organizer Joe Joyce (http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSgrandshatranjm) in New York City.
(5) Shogi tournament will take place in Kyoto between Kasparov and Carlsen,
featuring 50 different piece-types to suit: http://www.chessvariants.org/shogivariants.dir/taikyoku_english.html.
(6) Gilman's three-dimensional Armies of Faith will be played or played out at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, birthplace of chess problems, in 2017 http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSarmiesoffaith3.
(7) The Living Chess at Matostica, http://armchairtravelogue.blogspot.com/2009/06/living-chess-game-at-marostica-italy.html, will begin to feature Beastmaster pieces instead.
Don't expect anything shilpit or unipygic from the like of ChessBase; sure of their lines, every April 1 they there get the last laugh though all faces on their horizon are not even smiling.