Skip to content

Belgian Chess History

  • Blog
  • Tournaments
  • Players
  • Database
  • Wanted
  • Links
  • About
  • Contact

Month: May 2022

CIPC #275: Fritz Leiber, The 64-square madhouse

Posted on May 31, 2022May 31, 2022

The 64-square madhouse, a short story by Fritz Leiber published in 1962 in IF worlds of science fiction. It tells of the first super chess…

READ MORE

CIPC #274: Mystery Science Theater 3000 S6 E21, The beast of Yucca Flats

Posted on May 25, 2022May 25, 2022

I am quite used to it and hardly notice any more, but Mystery Science Theater 3000 is a really weird show. The premise is that…

READ MORE

CIPC #273: Murun Buchstansangur, Problems Problems

Posted on May 17, 2022May 17, 2022

I have seen quite a few cartoons for this blog, but never something quite like Murun Buchstansangur. Most cartoons are about kids, anthropomorphised animals, or…

READ MORE

CIPC #272: Lidl ad

Posted on May 11, 2022May 11, 2022

If you are trying to sell toys in the low countries, a lot of your revenue comes in the weeks before Saint Nicholas’ day. So,…

READ MORE

CIPC #271: Sable maze: Norwich Caves

Posted on May 4, 2022May 4, 2022

Ah, hidden object games! If you have the licence to slap a popular title on a game but you haven’t got the game to slap…

READ MORE

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.

Archive

Copyright © 2023 Belgian Chess History