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Month: October 2019

CIPC #143: Stone, Impending mate & Mated

Posted on October 29, 2019October 29, 2019

Some twenty years ago, there was a regular contributor to the magazine Chess writing under the name C. P. Ravilious. He mainly wrote a column…

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CIPC #142: Nero Vol.143, De dood van Bompa

Posted on October 22, 2019October 21, 2019

Nero is, or was at least, incredibly famous in Flanders and completely unknown outside of it. It is a comic with a cast of colourful…

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CIPC #141: La Bayadère (bis)

Posted on October 15, 2019

‘Wait!’ I hear you exclaim, ‘La Bayadère? Didn’t you talk about that before?’ I did! In fact, it is the same Makarova adaptation of Petipa’s…

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CIPC #140: Final move

Posted on October 8, 2019October 8, 2019

One thing I haven’t done yet this year, is commenting on a chess-themed movie. More than a hundred blog posts ago, I commented on Lang…

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CIPC #139: Miller advertisement

Posted on October 1, 2019October 1, 2019

The image below can be found easily on the net. It is apparently from an advertisement campaign for Miller beer from, I think, the end…

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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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