All of us make mistakes, for various reasons, yielding sometimes quite humerous ones. One of my personal favorites was a rush situation, where I, as the editor and publisher of the Lafayette Geological Society, was typing in the President’s Letter for our Bulletin as she was dictating it over the phone to me literally minutes before the publication deadline. Mentioning the upcoming Golf Tournament, inadvertently typing it in as our Gold Tournament (twice!). Our attendance was really high that year! Guess maybe they were expecting some really golden prizes! Or, remember Coors Artic Ice beer?! Apparently that misspelling was intentional so that they could trademark the term. Yes, of course, that makes perfect sense. Not! Or, a recent headline I read just a couple of days ago, which stated “Alcohol-related deaths cause six types of cancer.” Quoting the principal in Wildcats, “Riiiiiiiight!”

I’ve been an editor for nearly 25 years and have seen plenty of doozies. Bulimia versus Bulimina. Or, “There are no brothels in the syncline.” This was apparently an autocorrect of boreholes! Or, another autocorrect failure where in an IHS ad everywhere in the text portion it had “HIS” instead of IHS.

With the Chess World Championship currently ongoing, I thought I’d share one of my own personal “catches” as the first Wrong Way Wednesday post from the 2004 Kramnik-Leko match. Below is the official logo—yes, the official World Championship logo!. Beyond the oddly stretched chess board, there’s an even more egregious error. I emailed the championship convenors to point it out. Yeah, you guessed, I didn’t hear back! I did share this with Tim Krabbé and his Chess Curiosities webpage (now Open Chess Diary), who posted it and added a few other board errors: https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/chess2/diary_13.htm. Note that If you like chess be prepared to go down the rabbit hole of reading and analyzing his many posts—just do yourself a favor and don’t use it to procrastinate on a project, else you may find yourself making one of those rush job errors!

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