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AdminX
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by AdminX » Thu Apr 01, 2010 5:18 pm
http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6228
Just because Dick Cheney and Barack Obama are cousins does not mean I will buy this story.
"Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions."
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Jan Brouwer
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by Jan Brouwer » Thu Apr 01, 2010 7:43 pm
Talking about April fools jokes, did anyone notice Google's new unit(s) of time?
Daniel Shawul
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by Daniel Shawul » Thu Apr 01, 2010 8:07 pm
you mean Topeka's
Jan Brouwer
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by Jan Brouwer » Thu Apr 01, 2010 8:07 pm
Jan Brouwer wrote: Talking about April fools jokes, did anyone notice Google's new unit(s) of time?
And another one, try to become super user at xkcd!
(There are more commands implemented...)
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by tmokonen » Thu Apr 01, 2010 8:51 pm
Jan Brouwer wrote:
And another one, try to become super user at xkcd!
(There are more commands implemented...)
Or try running emacs
AdminX
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by AdminX » Thu Apr 01, 2010 10:53 pm
I doubt if this is true either, seeing as no major news network has picked up the story that I can find:
Fischer’s remains to be exhumed?
http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6227
"Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions."
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Norm Pollock
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by Norm Pollock » Fri Apr 02, 2010 1:25 am
It was in a local newspaper in NY today (NY Post).
swami
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by swami » Fri Apr 02, 2010 3:31 am
So, Chessbase is making multiple April Fools joke posts to confuse us into thinking that only one of them qualify?
Note that "LHC goes online - GM's worried" is an obvious April fools.
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6226
rlsuth
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by rlsuth » Fri Apr 02, 2010 3:46 am
Damon's grandfather is Finish and not Norwegian, but otherwise, a good story.
playjunior
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by playjunior » Fri Apr 02, 2010 2:56 pm
A friend working on one of LHC projects told me that they had a successful run at 7tev a couple of days ago. Obv. the Carlsen + Matt Damon story is the joke.