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Month: December 2019

CIPC #152: Hein Heijnen, Rokade

Posted on December 31, 2019December 31, 2019

Rokade is a book written (in Dutch; the title means Castling) by an MD by the name of Hein Heijnen. It appeared in the prehistoric1…

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BOBCH #6: Schuermans’ double deflection (1991)

Posted on December 27, 2019August 2, 2020

By now, there are several thousands of games on this site. How is one supposed to find games that are interesting? The answer is that…

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CIPC #151: The spirit of Christmas

Posted on December 24, 2019

‘t is the season to be jolly! To put a tree with more decoration than Idi Amin in a prominent place in the house. To…

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CIPC #150: Saturday night live 20-01-1996, Spartan cheerleaders

Posted on December 17, 2019December 17, 2019

From what I understand, Saturday night live is pretty much a staple of American culture but largely unknown outside of the USA. It is a…

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CIPC #149: Gravity Falls, S1 E11: Little Dipper

Posted on December 10, 2019August 2, 2020

Gravity Falls is a critically acclaimed cartoon show produced by Disney about twelve-year-old twins Mabel and Dipper, who spend the summer holidays with their great-uncle…

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CIPC #148: US marines advertisement

Posted on December 3, 2019December 3, 2019

The US military has many detractors all over the world, but none could possibly make them look sillier than they did themselves, from what I…

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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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