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Month: May 2018

CIPC #70: Chess board box covers

Posted on May 29, 2018

I found a new bizarre niche of CIPC material to get lost in! You can go online, find some pictures of cheap chess sets and…

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CIPC #69: The hound of the Baskervilles

Posted on May 22, 2018August 5, 2018

Long, long time ago, when I started this blog, I already knew that, inevitably, I would end up talking about Sherlock Holmes. I don’t think…

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CIPC #68: The hateful eight

Posted on May 16, 2018May 20, 2018

Tarantino syndrome is a disease which has been affecting many young movies, often with a great pedigree, for decades now. A textbook case is offered…

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CIPC #67: Barneby wand decoration

Posted on May 8, 2018May 9, 2018

In every big city you can find a games bar nowadays; a place where you can get together to play boardgames with friends1 while having…

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CIPC #66: “Weird Al” Yankovic, White & Nerdy

Posted on May 1, 2018

Parody is a tricky genre. When it fails, it tends to fall completely flat, but when it succeeds, ah, then you might just get a…

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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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