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Month: October 2020

CIPC #194: NHL commercial

Posted on October 27, 2020

The truth is harsh, but it’s the truth nonetheless: chess isn’t very popular. If we take Belgium as an admittedly particularly bad example, we find…

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CIPC #193: The black room

Posted on October 20, 2020

After amusing ourselves with some light-weight television series and some comedies, we now turn to more serious matters once again. The serious matter at hand…

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CIPC #192: Austin Powers: The spy who shagged me

Posted on October 13, 2020

We’ve had Tintin already on this blog, we’ve had Hercule Poirot, we’ve had Lucky Luke, we’ve had Devereaux. It’s time knock another famous fictional Belgian…

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CIPC #191: The odd couple S2 E9, Chess nuts

Posted on October 6, 2020October 6, 2020

When I first watched Fawlty Towers I wasn’t precisely blown away, but the more sitcoms I watch the more I appreciate it. Take for example…

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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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