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Month: March 2019

CIPC #112: Civilization IV

Posted on March 26, 2019

Chess is, of course, the greatest strategy game in the world; I don’t think the readers of this blog need to be convinced of that.…

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CIPC #111: The smurfs, Vol.11: The Olympic Smurfs

Posted on March 19, 2019March 20, 2019

In the more than two years I have been discussing chess in popular culture on this blog, I have seen the most horrible atrocities being…

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CIPC #110: Hummel, Schachpartie im Palais Voss, Berlin

Posted on March 12, 2019March 12, 2019

Originally, this was planned to be a sequel to last week’s post. I was going to dissect another slightly less obscure 19th century German painting.…

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CIPC #109: Haaga, Schachstilleben

Posted on March 5, 2019

Suppose, just for the sake of argument, that you end up in Hannover. Assume, still completely hypothetically, that you have strolled through the Herrenhäuser Gärten…

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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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