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CIPC #200: S. S. Van Dine, Le fou des échecs

Posted on December 9, 2020

This is the third year now that I do this blog. I have touched on movies, television series, paintings, comics, literature, sculptures – pretty much…

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CIPC #199: Alice in Wonderland

Posted on December 1, 2020

If you were to ask some random schmuck from the streets to give an example of chess in popular culture, provided you do this at…

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CIPC #198: De regels van Floor S3 E16, Fanatiek

Posted on November 24, 2020

De regels van Floor is a still-running Dutch television series. The title means ‘Floor’s rules’ and the concept is that, every episode, Floor comes up…

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CIPC #197: The twilight saga: Breaking dawn – part 1

Posted on November 17, 2020

Few traces of it are left, but about a decade ago, Twilight was the biggest thing in the world. Millions and millions of copies of…

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CIPC #196: Defenders of the Earth E5, Bits ‘n’ chips

Posted on November 10, 2020

Defenders of the Earth is an animated television series, starring three superheroes from American comics: Flash Gordon, The Phantom, and Mandrake the magician. Together, the…

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CIPC #195: Cores advertisement

Posted on November 3, 2020

Never before have I been so quick! Our subject for today — and today is November 3rd, 2020 — is an advertisement scanned from the…

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CIPC #194: NHL commercial

Posted on October 27, 2020

The truth is harsh, but it’s the truth nonetheless: chess isn’t very popular. If we take Belgium as an admittedly particularly bad example, we find…

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CIPC #193: The black room

Posted on October 20, 2020

After amusing ourselves with some light-weight television series and some comedies, we now turn to more serious matters once again. The serious matter at hand…

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CIPC #192: Austin Powers: The spy who shagged me

Posted on October 13, 2020

We’ve had Tintin already on this blog, we’ve had Hercule Poirot, we’ve had Lucky Luke, we’ve had Devereaux. It’s time knock another famous fictional Belgian…

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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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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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