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Author: Nikolaas Verhulst

CIPC #120: The lodger: A story of the London fog

Posted on May 21, 2019

One might easily forget it, but the great Alfred Hitchcock started his career all the way back in the twenties, more than thirty years before…

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CIPC #119: Translucid Vol.2

Posted on May 14, 2019

Translucid is an artsy take on the superhero genre published by BOOM! studios in six instalments between April and September 2014. I must admit that…

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CIPC #118: Barbie in the 12 dancing princesses

Posted on May 7, 2019

It is a truth universally acknowledged that any single thing capable of making a fortune must be in want of a movie script to be…

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CIPC #117: House S3 E23, The Jerk

Posted on April 30, 2019May 27, 2019

I have remarked before that, as the number of episodes in a given television series tends to infinity, the probability of chess appearing at least…

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CIPC #116: Kelly, The plateau of chess

Posted on April 23, 2019

Unless you are a connoisseur of the graphic arts, the name Leon Kelly probably doesn’t mean much to you, so a short biographic note seems…

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CIPC #115: The Addams family

Posted on April 16, 2019

The Addams family is the story of an old noble family with an enormous fortune, a slight supernatural touch, and a distinct taste for the…

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CIPC #114: At land

Posted on April 9, 2019

At land is not as well-known as the movies I usually feature in this series, so maybe some explanation is in order. It is a…

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CIPC #113: 7up commercial

Posted on April 2, 2019

It is relatively common to see chess in commercials, but it’s very rare indeed to see correspondence chess make an appearance. And the last place…

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CIPC #112: Civilization IV

Posted on March 26, 2019

Chess is, of course, the greatest strategy game in the world; I don’t think the readers of this blog need to be convinced of that.…

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CIPC #111: The smurfs, Vol.11: The Olympic Smurfs

Posted on March 19, 2019March 20, 2019

In the more than two years I have been discussing chess in popular culture on this blog, I have seen the most horrible atrocities being…

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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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