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Author: Nikolaas Verhulst

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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CIPC #295: Hum Tum

Posted on October 25, 2022December 30, 2022

Every now and then,1 I spotlight an ad on this blog. Today, I’ll write one. It’s going to be an ad for the Max Euwe…

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CIPC #294: Batman S1 E11, A riddle a day keeps the Riddler away

Posted on October 18, 2022October 18, 2022

Before I ever laid eyes on any episode of the Adam West Batman series from the sixties, I had this idea, gotten through sheer cultural…

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CIPC #293: JVC ad

Posted on October 11, 2022October 11, 2022

In the seventies, all bets were off. The oddest, most far-fetched ideas were realised. Weird novelties, like the Bond Bug and the Disco Duck were…

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CIPC #292: La habitación de Fermat

Posted on October 4, 2022October 4, 2022

When Saw came out in 2004, it inspired a wide array of horror and thriller movies of wildly varying quality. One of them, with a…

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CIPC #291: Kona

Posted on September 27, 2022October 6, 2022

Kona is a 2017 adventure game with a horror theme. I have not played it, but it seems a perfectly middle-of-the-road game. Not particularly good,…

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CIPC extra: Computer generated chess graphics

Posted on September 20, 2022December 27, 2022

We interrupt your regularly scheduled chess-in-popular-culture program to bring you an important message. Some of my diligent readers may have noticed this already, but I…

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CIPC #290: The first spaceship on Venus

Posted on September 13, 2022October 7, 2022

Sadly, I will not be discussing an actual spaceship in this post. It would be astonishing, wouldn’t it, if a chess scene were painted on…

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CIPC #289: The doctor Blake mysteries S1 E6, If the shoe fits

Posted on September 6, 2022October 25, 2022

Australia! The land of weird, venomous animals, fairy bread, and TwoSet violin. I don’t think I have yet spotlighted any Australian television show or indeed…

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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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