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Month: April 2022

CIPC #270: Kavanagh GC S3 E5, The ties that bind

Posted on April 26, 2022April 26, 2022

Do you remember when we talked about inspector Morse? The famous detective based on the novels by Colin Dexter and played by John Thaw? Well,…

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CIPC #269: Paul Masson ad

Posted on April 19, 2022April 19, 2022

Now here’s something different! Companies sometimes organise chess tournaments as a form of advertisement. They may sometimes even offer personal sponsorship to really successful players.…

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CIPC #268: The invisible boy

Posted on April 13, 2022April 13, 2022

From the title The invisible boy, you might guess that this is some fifties b-movie, perhaps like The day the Earth stood still or The…

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CIPC #267: Mr. Bean E13, Goodnight Mr. Bean

Posted on April 6, 2022April 6, 2022

While Rowan Atkinson is widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest British comedians in history, I only really knew him from Blackadder. I had…

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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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