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…
CIPC #290: The first spaceship on Venus
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…
CIPC #289: The doctor Blake mysteries S1 E6, If the shoe fits
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…
CIPC #288: Ninja in the killing fields
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…
CIPC #287: Guinea-Bissau Ruy López stamp
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…
CIPC #286: Dennis the menace 29-07-2022
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.…
CIPC #285: Fishbone, Party at ground zero
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…
CIPC #284: Calvin and Hobbes 10-09-1989
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…
CIPC #283: The black shield of Falworth
Which genres of movies are popular varies widely over time. Nowadays, the big thing are superhero movies, which didn’t really exist fifty years ago. On…
CIPC #282: Bombay dry gin ad
Oh look, another ad for an alcoholic beverage with a chess theme.1 Just another Wednesday. Okay, let’s get this over with then. Gin is a…