One might easily forget it, but the great Alfred Hitchcock started his career all the way back in the twenties, more than thirty years before…
CIPC #119: Translucid Vol.2
Translucid is an artsy take on the superhero genre published by BOOM! studios in six instalments between April and September 2014. I must admit that…
CIPC #118: Barbie in the 12 dancing princesses
It is a truth universally acknowledged that any single thing capable of making a fortune must be in want of a movie script to be…
CIPC #117: House S3 E23, The Jerk
I have remarked before that, as the number of episodes in a given television series tends to infinity, the probability of chess appearing at least…
CIPC #116: Kelly, The plateau of chess
Unless you are a connoisseur of the graphic arts, the name Leon Kelly probably doesn’t mean much to you, so a short biographic note seems…
CIPC #115: The Addams family
The Addams family is the story of an old noble family with an enormous fortune, a slight supernatural touch, and a distinct taste for the…
CIPC #114: At land
At land is not as well-known as the movies I usually feature in this series, so maybe some explanation is in order. It is a…
CIPC #113: 7up commercial
It is relatively common to see chess in commercials, but it’s very rare indeed to see correspondence chess make an appearance. And the last place…
CIPC #112: Civilization IV
Chess is, of course, the greatest strategy game in the world; I don’t think the readers of this blog need to be convinced of that.…
CIPC #111: The smurfs, Vol.11: The Olympic Smurfs
In the more than two years I have been discussing chess in popular culture on this blog, I have seen the most horrible atrocities being…