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Author: Nikolaas Verhulst

CIPC #191: The odd couple S2 E9, Chess nuts

Posted on October 6, 2020October 6, 2020

When I first watched Fawlty Towers I wasn’t precisely blown away, but the more sitcoms I watch the more I appreciate it. Take for example…

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CIPC #190: Kentucky Tavern ad

Posted on September 29, 2020

No interesting introduction this time. The New Yorker of February 2nd 1946 contains an advertisement for the Kentucky Tavern brand bourbon. It features a chess…

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CIPC #189: Bill & Ted’s excellent adventure

Posted on September 22, 2020

For a brief period of time a the very end of the eighties and in the beginning of the nineties, Bill & Ted were big.…

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CIPC #188: The rifleman S4 E7, The knight errant

Posted on September 16, 2020

Television may be a relatively recent phenomenon, but the ‘relatively’ in that sentence is becoming more pertinent with every passing year. Already, there are more…

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CIPC #187: Thoroughbreds

Posted on September 9, 2020

Let’s continue this strange trend of recent movies appearing on this blog. Today’s victim is Thoroughbreds, a 2017 film starring Olivia Cooke and Anya Taylor-Joy.…

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CIPC #186: Abenteuer 1900 – Leben im Gutshaus E12, Warten auf Nachwuchs

Posted on September 1, 2020

Today, we feature our first German television series. Abenteuer 1900 – Leben im Gutshaus, German for “adventure 1900 – live on a manor”, was shown…

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CIPC #185: Nero Vol.123, Wonderboy

Posted on August 25, 2020

Flemish people of a certain age might remember Nero from the newspapers, in which he featured for decades.1 Regular readers of this blog might know…

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CIPC #184: Think like a dog

Posted on August 18, 2020

Is chess in terrible kids movies with talking pets a trend? First there was the horrendous Alvin and the chipmunks: The Squeakquel from 2009 and…

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CIPC #183: Energizer ad

Posted on August 11, 2020August 17, 2020

A chess player’s biggest dream, a chess player’s worst fear: the battery. A well-crafted battery, pointing confidently to the opponent’s king, is a source of…

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CIPC #182: Broken sword: The shadow of the Templars

Posted on August 4, 2020August 4, 2020

One upon a time, there were point-and-click adventure games. Sure, the genre still exists, but in the late eighties and the early nineties, when home…

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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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