Along with the Baku Grand Prix, the Russian Team Championship, Gausdal, and the start of the European Individual Championship (Plovdiv, Bulgaria), a favorite topic of the chess blogs in April was the double edged sword known as April Fools Day. The joke is probably on us for mentioning this in mid-May, but one of the blogs on our list of Top Blogs assembled a roundup of April Fools posts, proving once again that chess bloggers are a clever bunch (www.kenilworthchessclub.org).

A topic mentioned on several blogs was a press release from St. John's University announcing that CPS Professor’s Book to Become HBO Film on "Chess Match of the Century," Fischer vs. Spassky. The professor is none other than Dr. Frank Brady, Chair of the Mass Communication Division in the College of Professional Studies (CPS), and better known to Fischer's many fans as the author of 'Profile of a Prodigy', the definitive biography on the most reclusive of the World Chess Champions. Whether by coincidence or by design, another of our top blogs posted Dr. Frank Brady Lecture Videos on Bobby Fischer, a set of 12 links to YouTube videos capturing a lecture from September 2007, four months before Fischer's untimely death in Iceland (jrobichess.blogspot.com).