Following in my own illustrious footsteps, I will once more regale you with my running commentary — purely from a chess point of view, of…
CIPC #299: Bernard Bear, Chess
People often think that early childhood is a happy, carefree time where other people make your food, where you have no bills to pay, and…
CIPC #298: Rage at dawn
That’s terrible advice. Clearly, you should rage in the late afternoon. At that point, most people have already had a stressful day and are ready…
CIPC #297: Ivo op zondag 27-03-2022
This is a bit of a rarity: a talk show! Yes, Ivo op zondag (Ivo on Sunday) is a Dutch television program in which the…
CIPC #296: Rat-Man No.48
When you think of comics, you probably think about American superhero comics, Japanese manga, or perhaps the Franco-Belgian bandes dessinées. You probably don’t think of…
CIPC #295: Hum Tum
Every now and then,1 I spotlight an ad on this blog. Today, I’ll write one. It’s going to be an ad for the Max Euwe…
CIPC #294: Batman S1 E11, A riddle a day keeps the Riddler away
Before I ever laid eyes on any episode of the Adam West Batman series from the sixties, I had this idea, gotten through sheer cultural…
CIPC #293: JVC ad
In the seventies, all bets were off. The oddest, most far-fetched ideas were realised. Weird novelties, like the Bond Bug and the Disco Duck were…
CIPC #292: La habitación de Fermat
When Saw came out in 2004, it inspired a wide array of horror and thriller movies of wildly varying quality. One of them, with a…
CIPC #291: Kona
Kona is a 2017 adventure game with a horror theme. I have not played it, but it seems a perfectly middle-of-the-road game. Not particularly good,…