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Author: Nikolaas Verhulst

CIPC #241: Hogan’s heroes S4 E21, Up in Klink’s room

Posted on September 28, 2021

A prisoner of war camp in Nazi Germany is a rather unlikely setting for a comedy sitcom and perhaps it would be hard to get…

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CIPC #240: Lewis S5 E3, The mind has mountains

Posted on September 21, 2021

If you read this blog, there is a good chance you like dissecting chess positions that occur in movies or television series. But maybe you…

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CIPC #239: Ava Max, Kings & Queens

Posted on September 14, 2021

Perhaps I have been indoctrinated by Pepsi, but to me Ava Max sounds like some kind of soda. Or perhaps like some obscure British sports…

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CIPC #238: The untouchables S4 E3, The chess game

Posted on September 7, 2021

The untouchables were originally a special team of incorruptible agents tasked with fighting organised crime in Chicago. It then became the title of an autobiographically…

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CIPC #237: Peep show S3 E3, Shrooming

Posted on September 1, 2021January 3, 2022

Peep show is a critically acclaimed sitcom that cemented David Mitchell and Robert Webb as one of the great comedic duos in British television. It…

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CIPC #236: Killer7

Posted on August 25, 2021January 3, 2022

I don’t know a whole lot about video games, but even I can tell from a very short bit of gameplay footage that Killer7 is…

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CIPC #235: The Addams family S1 E34, Winning of Morticia Addams

Posted on August 17, 2021

Today, we will talk about a group of weirdos with strange customs, largely shunned by society but quite happy on their own. No, not chess…

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CIPC #234: Lewis S4 E3, Your sudden death question

Posted on August 11, 2021

After well over four years of weekly blog posts, it’s becoming harder and harder to come with real novelties. But today, I have found it.…

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CIPC #233: Lewis S2 E3, Life born of fire

Posted on August 3, 2021January 3, 2022

The last time we met Lewis, he was assisting inspector Morse in his final days. It turns out that he afterwards became an inspector himself…

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CIPC #232: Chanel ad

Posted on July 27, 2021

All too rare are examples of the happy few, the names that everybody knows, the a-list celebrities, that show up at the chessboard. Consequently, the…

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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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