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Month: November 2022

CIPC #300: Arturo Pérez-Reverte, La tabla de Flandes

Posted on November 29, 2022November 29, 2022

Following in my own illustrious footsteps, I will once more regale you with my running commentary — purely from a chess point of view, of…

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CIPC #299: Bernard Bear, Chess

Posted on November 23, 2022December 30, 2022

People often think that early childhood is a happy, carefree time where other people make your food, where you have no bills to pay, and…

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CIPC #298: Rage at dawn

Posted on November 15, 2022November 15, 2022

That’s terrible advice. Clearly, you should rage in the late afternoon. At that point, most people have already had a stressful day and are ready…

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CIPC #297: Ivo op zondag 27-03-2022

Posted on November 9, 2022December 30, 2022

This is a bit of a rarity: a talk show! Yes, Ivo op zondag (Ivo on Sunday) is a Dutch television program in which the…

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CIPC #296: Rat-Man No.48

Posted on November 2, 2022November 2, 2022

When you think of comics, you probably think about American superhero comics, Japanese manga, or perhaps the Franco-Belgian bandes dessinées. You probably don’t think of…

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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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