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Month: September 2020

CIPC #190: Kentucky Tavern ad

Posted on September 29, 2020

No interesting introduction this time. The New Yorker of February 2nd 1946 contains an advertisement for the Kentucky Tavern brand bourbon. It features a chess…

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CIPC #189: Bill & Ted’s excellent adventure

Posted on September 22, 2020

For a brief period of time a the very end of the eighties and in the beginning of the nineties, Bill & Ted were big.…

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CIPC #188: The rifleman S4 E7, The knight errant

Posted on September 16, 2020

Television may be a relatively recent phenomenon, but the ‘relatively’ in that sentence is becoming more pertinent with every passing year. Already, there are more…

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CIPC #187: Thoroughbreds

Posted on September 9, 2020

Let’s continue this strange trend of recent movies appearing on this blog. Today’s victim is Thoroughbreds, a 2017 film starring Olivia Cooke and Anya Taylor-Joy.…

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CIPC #186: Abenteuer 1900 – Leben im Gutshaus E12, Warten auf Nachwuchs

Posted on September 1, 2020

Today, we feature our first German television series. Abenteuer 1900 – Leben im Gutshaus, German for “adventure 1900 – live on a manor”, was shown…

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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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