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Month: April 2019

CIPC #117: House S3 E23, The Jerk

Posted on April 30, 2019May 27, 2019

I have remarked before that, as the number of episodes in a given television series tends to infinity, the probability of chess appearing at least…

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CIPC #116: Kelly, The plateau of chess

Posted on April 23, 2019

Unless you are a connoisseur of the graphic arts, the name Leon Kelly probably doesn’t mean much to you, so a short biographic note seems…

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CIPC #115: The Addams family

Posted on April 16, 2019

The Addams family is the story of an old noble family with an enormous fortune, a slight supernatural touch, and a distinct taste for the…

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CIPC #114: At land

Posted on April 9, 2019

At land is not as well-known as the movies I usually feature in this series, so maybe some explanation is in order. It is a…

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CIPC #113: 7up commercial

Posted on April 2, 2019

It is relatively common to see chess in commercials, but it’s very rare indeed to see correspondence chess make an appearance. And the last place…

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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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