The 64-square madhouse, a short story by Fritz Leiber published in 1962 in IF worlds of science fiction. It tells of the first super chess…
CIPC #274: Mystery Science Theater 3000 S6 E21, The beast of Yucca Flats
I am quite used to it and hardly notice any more, but Mystery Science Theater 3000 is a really weird show. The premise is that…
CIPC #273: Murun Buchstansangur, Problems Problems
I have seen quite a few cartoons for this blog, but never something quite like Murun Buchstansangur. Most cartoons are about kids, anthropomorphised animals, or…
CIPC #272: Lidl ad
If you are trying to sell toys in the low countries, a lot of your revenue comes in the weeks before Saint Nicholas’ day. So,…
CIPC #271: Sable maze: Norwich Caves
Ah, hidden object games! If you have the licence to slap a popular title on a game but you haven’t got the game to slap…
CIPC #270: Kavanagh GC S3 E5, The ties that bind
Do you remember when we talked about inspector Morse? The famous detective based on the novels by Colin Dexter and played by John Thaw? Well,…
CIPC #269: Paul Masson ad
Now here’s something different! Companies sometimes organise chess tournaments as a form of advertisement. They may sometimes even offer personal sponsorship to really successful players.…
CIPC #268: The invisible boy
From the title The invisible boy, you might guess that this is some fifties b-movie, perhaps like The day the Earth stood still or The…
CIPC #267: Mr. Bean E13, Goodnight Mr. Bean
While Rowan Atkinson is widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest British comedians in history, I only really knew him from Blackadder. I had…
CIPC #266: Agent Provocateur ad
Intuitively, one would perhaps expect chess themes to mainly occur in advertisement for brainy things, like insurance, or computers, or stocks or something. But it…