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Month: May 2017

CIPC #21: Midsomer Murders S15 E5 The Sicilian defence

Posted on May 30, 2017June 6, 2017

It doesn’t happen very often that a long-running television show dedicates an entire episode to chess, but when it happens – oh boy! Episode 5…

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CIPC #20: Promofilm liga Antwerpen

Posted on May 23, 2017June 6, 2017

What is the last place where you would expect an impossible position to appear on the chessboard? I don’t know precisely what my own answer…

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CIPC #19: Lang leve de koningin

Posted on May 16, 2017June 6, 2017

Due to enormous success1 the last time I commented on a chess-themed movie, I will do it again. This time, the focus will be on…

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CIPC #18: Hamilton watches advert

Posted on May 9, 2017June 6, 2017

Watches, especially the high-end ones, have a very posh image. They’re supposed to be for the distinguished gentleman, evoking images of a quiet British club…

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CIPC #17: 1984

Posted on May 2, 2017June 6, 2017

One sure sign of an author’s lasting success is when his phrases and his words become common parlance. Very few authors have achieved this in…

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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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