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Month: October 2018

CIPC #92: Barque advertisement

Posted on October 30, 2018

Pretty much every time I talk about chess in advertisement, I point out that chess is used to symbolise intelligence and sophistication, but it has…

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CIPC #91: Basil, the great mouse detective

Posted on October 23, 2018October 24, 2018

When people talk about great Disney movies, they usually mention Fantasia, Toy story, The lion king – but no one ever mentions Basil, the great…

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CIPC #90: Zorro S2 E8, The flag of truce

Posted on October 16, 2018

What, oh what, did people do before the internet? Or, generally, before the rise of the computer? Hell, before cheap pocket editions of all the…

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CIPC #89: Vittel commercial

Posted on October 9, 2018October 7, 2018

Can I go on a little rant for a moment? Well, this is my blog, so I most definitely can! So here I go: modern…

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CIPC #88: A talent for murder

Posted on October 2, 2018

And once more we end up in our wheelhouse: crime fiction. This time, we’ll talk about a British made-for-tv movie from 1984. Angela Lansbury plays…

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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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