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Month: January 2017

CIPC #4: Agatha Christie’s Poirot S5 E6: The chocolate box

Posted on January 31, 2017February 22, 2017

Belgium is a strange, strange country. I don’t mean the bizarre borders1 , the incredibly complicated politics2 , or the fact that there’s a Belgian…

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CIPC #3: Port mortem

Posted on January 24, 2017

“Post mortem” is the slightly macabre but very apt term chess players use for the after-game analysis with one’s opponent, where one looks at the…

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CIPC #2: The mentalist, S1 E3: Red tide

Posted on January 21, 2017February 7, 2017

I have quite a high tolerance for mediocre mystery fiction – and “mediocre mystery fiction” happens to be a perfect description of the American television…

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CIPC #1: The smurfs, Vol.10: The Smurf Soup

Posted on January 11, 2017January 19, 2017

Ah, the Smurfs! The little blue guys don’t need an introduction, I think, but I will give them one anyway. Here goes: the smurfs were,…

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Chess in popular culture

With this blog, I will critique chess as it appears in all sorts of popular media. I will honour the good and, probably much more frequently, castigate the bad.

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