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Author: Nikolaas Verhulst

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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CIPC #288: Ninja in the killing fields

Posted on August 31, 2022August 31, 2022

Today, we’re going to talk about an obscure niche of pop culture you quite probably have never heard of: Hong Kong hack jobs. That’s not…

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CIPC #287: Guinea-Bissau Ruy López stamp

Posted on August 24, 2022August 24, 2022

When I first saw this stamp, I wondered where it was issued. It clearly says Guinea-Bissau, but why on Earth is there a big Finlandia…

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CIPC #286: Dennis the menace 29-07-2022

Posted on August 16, 2022August 16, 2022

There are certain fictional characters that one only starts to appreciate with age. Homer Simpson, for example, to a child seems like a boring loser.…

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CIPC #285: Fishbone, Party at ground zero

Posted on August 9, 2022August 9, 2022

Long, long time ago, when music videos were a new thing, almost anybody could get some airplay. Even a rock band with a short, random…

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CIPC #284: Calvin and Hobbes 10-09-1989

Posted on August 2, 2022August 2, 2022

What’s the best newspaper comic of all time? Many will say it’s The peanuts. Some people might prefer Dilbert, or The wizard of Id. Maybe…

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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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