CIPC #120: The lodger: A story of the London fog
One might easily forget it, but the great Alfred Hitchcock started his career all the way back in the twenties, more than thirty years before Psycho, making silent movies because...
CIPC #119: Translucid Vol.2
Translucid is an artsy take on the superhero genre published by BOOM! studios in six instalments between April and September 2014. I must admit that I haven’t read it, but...
CIPC #117: House S3 E23, The Jerk
I have remarked before that, as the number of episodes in a given television series tends to infinity, the probability of chess appearing at least once, perhaps even in an...
CIPC #116: Kelly, The plateau of chess
Unless you are a connoisseur of the graphic arts, the name Leon Kelly probably doesn’t mean much to you, so a short biographic note seems in order. Kelly was a...
CIPC #115: The Addams family
The Addams family is the story of an old noble family with an enormous fortune, a slight supernatural touch, and a distinct taste for the macabre. It started as a...
CIPC #114: At land
At land is not as well-known as the movies I usually feature in this series, so maybe some explanation is in order. It is a silent American short film from...
CIPC #113: 7up commercial
It is relatively common to see chess in commercials, but it’s very rare indeed to see correspondence chess make an appearance. And the last place I would expect it, is...
CIPC #112: Civilization IV
Chess is, of course, the greatest strategy game in the world; I don’t think the readers of this blog need to be convinced of that. For a few centuries, there...
CIPC #111: The smurfs, Vol.11: The Olympic Smurfs
In the more than two years I have been discussing chess in popular culture on this blog, I have seen the most horrible atrocities being committed against the noble game...
CIPC #110: Hummel, Schachpartie im Palais Voss, Berlin
Originally, this was planned to be a sequel to last week’s post. I was going to dissect another slightly less obscure 19th century German painting. I had an even lower...
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