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We believe we have succeeded in the second criterion fairly well in theīlinking news page (for a full day) in 2011, and told of the discoveryĭamon was the second cousin of Magnus Carlsen in the year before that. "ChessBase to manufacture bottled drinks" is something nobody can easily Of course it is trivially easy to fulfil the first criterion: Progressively more difficult for us to construct stories that do what theyĪre supposed to do: fool as many people as possible andīe entertaining. The years – over close to two decades, actually – it has become

We are close to abandoning our April Fool's pranks in the future. White to play and mate in four moves – a valuableĪllumwandlung The future of our April Fool's tradition Sues? The story was surely silly enough, and most of our readers recognizes Up by two ChessBase editors who will remain unnamed – what if Trump Story: the Donald Trump mate-in-four and the narrative around it was cooked The real April Fool's joke was buried in the Hillary seeks Irina Krush Hope the World Championship match in New York is closer. Race from stop would look like, and here a raceįrom roll. So Sergey can actually drive around in his i8, and we suggested he race Up to 250 kilometers an hour, from zero to one hundred in four seconds,Ĭarbon fibre body and a fuel consumption of only 2.1 liters for 100 kilometers Most of you have seen the real car in front of the door,īut now you know who is driving away tonight with this car. We thought about driving our most progressive sports car in the world: Was not difficult to find the right award for this great achievement. I am happy to congratulate Sergey for winning the tournament. The omitted passageĬhess is one of the most intellectual games in the world, and our brand,īMW, is known all around the world for our intellectual engineering and Of the BMW Group in Russia, Hans de Visser, at the closing ceremony, butĮxpediently left out the bit where it became clear that Sergey would beĭriving away with a real BMW parked in front of the venue. We transcribed the speech of Development Director Our intention was to have as many readers as possible think: oh, April Fool,Īll he got was a toy BMW. The picture we used showed Sergey Karjakin holding a model BMW i8 – It is his to drive aroundįor a full month, as clearly stated. Sergey Karjakin, the winner of the 2016 Candidates tournament The solutions will be published next week. So, for those who didn't notice and found the solutions triviallyĮasy, here's a chance to solve the problems with White moving down the board. The last two you had to reverse the board – as the coordinates quiteĬlearly show. Pal Benko sent us his helpmate and stalemate problemsĮxplicitly as April 1st entertainment.

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